Added one more script, getting random crashes

[Sotha]

I've been building my unusual contest map. Adding scripts and testing. Thus far everything has worked.

 

Now I added one more crucial script. It is a monitoring script that is fired occasionally by a trigger_timer. It is run, and it checks something. It won't do anything by default. If a certain condition is fulfilled, it does a special action. TDM gives no warning about the script. It works like it should and does what is supposed to. I've double checked it and it seems to be in order.

 

BUT... Now I'm getting random crashes. Big crashes without any error messages, but the windows standard "program had to close."

 

I've been trying to do different things and get the problem re-appear, but it seems completely random. I can't pin point it in any way, but that it seemed to start right after this one last script addition. One time everything just works fine. Other time I get a crash.

 

Any ideas how I could examine what is wrong? Can two separate scripts run at exactly the same time destabilize the game? (I DO have two of these monitor scripts running.)

[Obsttorte]

Can you post the script here? It's a bit hard to tell what's wrong if one don't know what the script is actually doing.

 

The only thing I've experienced causing the game to crash are infinite loop arrows. You get them if something runs in an endless loop with out any pauses added. But normally you get a console error telling you this.

 

EDIT: One other circumstance under which I've gotten random crashes was when I used to much variables. It seems the script can only handle a limited amount of them.

[stumpy]

maybe its a number out of range error, or maybe script memory is limited to one megabyte

[Sotha]

I tried to stagger the two monitoring script firings, so that they were not happening similtaneously. No help.

 

@stumpy: If there was such a limit and I broke it, shouldn't the crash be always repeatable?

 

@obst: thanks. It is a big spoiler for my mission, so I'll try a few things first. I do use a LOT of entity variables. I spawn entities around and remove them. If I hit some variable limit, shouldn't the crash also be always repeatable?

 

Maybe it is the trigger_timer? There was a way to make a thread that is run in a loop, maybe that's the solution. Also I could reduce the variables and spawning items by putting some stuff in blue room and teleport them instead of spawning and removing. Like trying to find a needle in a haystack. I will try these, and after exhausting my leads I'll post the script.

[Obsttorte]

If I hit some variable limit, shouldn't the crash also be always repeatable?

If the script gets called via the trigger_timer and the time between the firing has some randomness, than maybe not.

[demagogue]

You could post the script in a PM after asking for a volunteer so it's not public.

[Sotha]

You could post the script in a PM after asking for a volunteer so it's not public.

 

Yup, that's what is being done behind the scenes. There may be some light at the end of the tunnel in this matter.

[Sotha]

This was finally resolved. Not a mod, problem, but due to incompetent scripting. Simplifying the script seemed to clear these crashes.

Big thanks to Obsttorte!

 

Back on mapping track...