[jg18]

I tried leaving my PC on all night, running FRED via the debugger and it did not crash so it doesn't appear to be universal (or I need more sleep).

Given the above while knowing next to nothing about FRED's internals, I'd wonder if it's something like a memory bug that only shows up in release builds.

As such, Battuta, maybe try a debug build of FRED and report back? (on FRED, not the sex)

[And please reply on the wxL thread while you're at it. ]

[General Battuta]

Left my PC on all night, FRED open, event window NOT open, no crash. Unfortunately this is no kind of scientific proof of a connection at all. *sigh*

[NGTM-1R]

Just managed to crash FRED by leaving it running the background for six hours while I did other stuff.

[General Battuta]

But was the events window open!?

[NGTM-1R]

No.

Given the timescale, this is going to a real pain to work out.

[General Battuta]

Shiiiiiiit. Okay, what if it has to do with...God, I don't know. I'll try systematically altering my system's sleep settings and see if that has any influence, I guess?

[Phantom Hoover]

is there any way of like... overclocking fred, so you can run it on the timescales needed quickly

[General Battuta]

I dunno, but I got FRED to crash today without the events editor open by leaving it alone for ~8 hours.

[CommanderDJ]

Could this be like... a really slow memory leak or something? FRED slowly eating up RAM?

I dunno, just wild ideas here.

[ngld]

I'm just guessing but could this be caused by an overflow in FS's timer?
According to io/timer.h it "rolls about" every 9 hours. Whenever it does, a "TIMER ROLLED!" appears in fred2_open.log.

[General Battuta]

Hm. Would that be affected by user activity? I've never had FRED crash while actually using it in the past year or so.

[The E]

I don't see how. The timer runs, regardless of what you're doing. I'm not going to flat out state that this isn't a possible cause for stuff; but as far as I can tell, FRED does not use timer functions anywhere (the only point I can see is some internal FPS tracking done by the renderer that may roll over and die once the timer rolls, but that's about it)

[NGTM-1R]

Who volunteers to only FRED for 10 hours to find out if user activity matters?

[General Battuta]

Who volunteers to only FRED for 10 hours to find out if user activity matters?

Did that several days running

[General Battuta]

Really into this thread being pinned!

[Goober5000]

...And Battuta invokes Godwin's Law.

EDIT: Please take further discussion to the Mantis ticket created specifically for this bug: http://scp.indiegames.us/mantis/view.php?id=3006