Map crash, unless

[Theothesnopp]

Alright, so im working on a map, trying a bunch of new things like playing with sounds, particles etc.

Had dmap issues a while back when the game would freeze (and later on crash) after dmap, i was still able to play the map with only a aas error. went through the map and deleted all rain/splash textures, readable and most of the ai. wich seems to have solved that issue for now.

 

now on the other hand, i cant load the map without dmaping first (even though i dont edit the map what so ever)

 

Too explain

 

Dmap - Map - Play (works)

 

Dmap - Map - Play (works) - menu - restart game - map - Crash -

 

re-enter - Dmap - Map - Play (works)

[Obsttorte]

Do you crash to desktop or to the main menue? If it's the latter can you please post the error message displayed in the console?

 

If you crash to desktop try the following. Delete the cm, proc and aas file for your map and than dmap again. Maybe that works.

[Theothesnopp]

It crashes to desktop, i did as you suggested, did not work

[Obsttorte]

If you upload the map somewhere and pm me the link I could take a look if you like me to.

[Sotha]

Do you get a malloc error? Dmap is leaking memory, which could explain your problem. Doing the following will clear the problem if the issue is you running out of memory:

 

Getting "Malloc Failure for #######" crash-to-desktop

http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=FAQ#Getting_.22Malloc_Failure_for_.23.23.23.23.23.23.23.22_crash-to-desktop

[Theothesnopp]

Nope, the problem is i cant play after i have exit the game.

 

Dmap - Map, works fine

 

Dmap - Restart Game - Map, does not work

[Sotha]

So, no error messages?

[Theothesnopp]

If you upload the map somewhere and pm me the link I could take a look if you like me to.

 

I'll see if someone drops in with a solution, if not i will take you up on that offer.

Dont want to spoil anything if i dont have to

[Theothesnopp]

So, no error messages?

 

Nope just the "send error report" kinda crash.

 

gonna check the console

 

 

Edit: the usual

 

Brush primitive on entity is degenerate

 

brush on entity 0 unbounded

Edited January 27, 2013 by Theothesnopp

[Serpentine]

Hmmm, can you PM me a copy of the map?

 

I cant promise answers now, but I like to keep these issues as test cases.

[Theothesnopp]

Alright ill send you both a copy.

[Moonbo]

One thing to check is whether you have any spawnargs on your worldspawn (i.e. look at a brush in the entity inspector and see if any spawnargs are on there). I had an issue where I accidentally put a rotation spawnarg on my worldspawn which caused an error which sounds very similar to yours whenever I tried to place AI on the map. It went away after I erased the errant spawnargs.

[grayman]

I've been seeing the same problem using SVN. dmap->map works fine, but map by itself crashes.

In my case, I don't think it's an 'available memory' issue, since I have 12GB. In any case, I would expect the dmap->map sequence to have more mem issues than a simple map, given that we already know dmap doesn't return used memory.

[grayman]

One thing to check is whether you have any spawnargs on your worldspawn ...

 

In my case, I only have the "shop_skip" spawnarg on worldspawn.

[Tels]

Are thare any triggers (like trigger_once_entityname with "entityname" set to "player1", or any other trigger_touch?) the player is standing in at map start, that target other entities?

[grayman]

Are thare any triggers (like trigger_once_entityname with "entityname" set to "player1", or any other trigger_touch?) the player is standing in at map start, that target other entities?

 

In my case, no.

[Theothesnopp]

Nope, nothing :/

[Theothesnopp]

no one?

[grayman]

Hmmm, can you PM me a copy of the map?

 

I cant promise answers now, but I like to keep these issues as test cases.

 

@Theo, can you PM Serps a copy of the map?

[Theothesnopp]

i did :s

[Obsttorte]

Maybe it's an error with the engine itself. Don't know. I fairly doubt we'll get behind this soon. If you have snapshots or failsaves, you may start workingfrom them on and hope the error does not reoccur.

[Theothesnopp]

I've changed too much from the previous backups. It would be a huge motivation drop to have to start from them.

When ive got time im gonna try to split the map into separate pieces so i alteast know where to look.

[Serpentine]

Sadly I'm fighting some tricky stuff in the amd64 porting of the game code - it works, but there's some trouble with the script side of things. Tracking it down is proving to be a pain and has eaten a few evenings :/ I really want to get all this stuff done before I look at other issues. Meeeeh

[Theothesnopp]

no probs, ill try to figure it out by my own. if all goes to s*** i'll come back and ask for help.

if anyone feels like having a go at it it would be much obliged though.

[Serpentine]

Sweet, solved the script crashing - yay for magic numbers.

 

So with a little luck I'll be able to look at this tomorrow.