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General FreeSpace => FreeSpace & FreeSpace Open Support => Topic started by: fightermedic on September 13, 2011, 03:15:36 pm

Title: game crashing on certain event
Post by: fightermedic on September 13, 2011, 03:15:36 pm: hi there, hope you folks can help me with my problem
while playing a certain mission in the yet ureleased newest version of the warzone campain, my game keeps crashing every time a certain event occures in that mission (enemy ships arrive)
running with the debug build i got this log

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Assert: r1 > 0.0f File: lighting.cpp Line: 298 ntdll.dll! ZwWaitForSingleObject + 21 bytes kernel32.dll! WaitForSingleObjectEx + 67 bytes kernel32.dll! WaitForSingleObject + 18 bytes fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! SCP_DumpStack + 354 bytes fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! WinAssert + 208 bytes fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! light_add_point + 70 bytes fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! obj_move_all_post + 1390 bytes fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! obj_move_all + 355 bytes fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! game_simulation_frame + 1059 bytes fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! game_frame + 491 bytes fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! game_do_frame + 237 bytes fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! game_do_state + 379 bytes fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! gameseq_process_events + 237 bytes fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! game_main + 782 bytes fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! WinMain + 330 bytes fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! __tmainCRTStartup + 358 bytes fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe! WinMainCRTStartup + 15 bytes kernel32.dll! BaseThreadInitThunk + 18 bytes ntdll.dll! RtlInitializeExceptionChain + 99 bytes ntdll.dll! RtlInitializeExceptionChain + 54 bytes
now i'm not really sure if that has something to do with that certain mission as such (but i suppose so, never had this problem before) or wether something with the whole game is amiss
anybody has any clue what that log is supposed to mean? after all i can't even find a file named "lighting.cpp" within the freespace folder

:confused: :mad:
Title: Re: game crashing on certain event
Post by: Jeff Vader on September 13, 2011, 03:18:04 pm: Quote from: fightermedic on September 13, 2011, 03:15:36 pm
after all i can't even find a file named "lighting.cpp" within the freespace folder
That would be because it is one of the files that contains the code from which your fs2_open_3_6_12d_INF.exe was compiled.

Could you post the actual log? That is, a file called "fs2_open.log" from your \freespace2\data\ directory.
Title: Re: game crashing on certain event
Post by: The E on September 13, 2011, 03:25:37 pm: What is happening here is that the code is trying to add a light with a zero or negative radius.

This should never, ever happen.

One thing to check would be if this happens with recent nightly builds.

EDIT: Okay, I put some safeguards into the code so that that assert should not be triggered again. Please test a nightly build revision 7719 or higher.
Title: Re: game crashing on certain event
Post by: fightermedic on September 14, 2011, 09:47:45 am: strange error indeed :banghead:

i will surely test it
edit: it worked :nod:
thanks very much mr E
i'm impressed by the speed of the response :yes: