Alpha Centauri 2

Community => Chiron News Network => Topic started by: Yitzi on May 01, 2014, 10:23:39 PM

Title: Yitzi's unofficial SMAX patch 2.5h
Post by: Yitzi on May 01, 2014, 10:23:39 PM

Yitzi's unofficial SMAX patch 2.5h

http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=209 (http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=209)

Another bug fixed; this one would sometimes cause crashes.

Requires all other files from 2.5.

Title: Re: Yitzi's unofficial SMAX patch 2.5h
Post by: stecauri on May 02, 2014, 06:00:44 AM

Hmm, I just tested this, and the bug from before did not occur. But I decided to be a bit more thorough so I reverted back to 2.5g again.
This time it didn't crash... Strange, yesterday it happened on two consecutive testings. The only difference from yesterday is that my pc has been off.

Anyway, I have been bothered by random crashes in several games throughout yours, and the others, patches. But things seem much improved now.

Good that that you found something with my help :)

Title: Re: Yitzi's unofficial SMAX patch 2.5h
Post by: gwillybj on May 02, 2014, 10:46:56 AM

 :'(
 I still have the odd "Production--" crashes and the "Goto" pop-up crashes. They refuse to repeat upon loading the autosave; they occur later then, but it's inconsistent. I had a game go over 100 turns before a crash, then another 100 or so before another crash. A different game went 20 turns, and crashed almost every 10ish turns for a while, then stabilized (I'm persistent).
 I thought it might be my PC was dirty and overheating, so I cleaned it all out, including the fans and the heat sink. No joy. Still crashing. I hope it's not my oversized (360x180) maps. I can't let that go.
It's just SMAX. I can play an entire large scanario in TOAW2 (The Operation Art of War II) without a hitch - it's as graphics-intensive as SMAX.
I actually wish it would stick to crashing at a specific point, then I could upload the save. Maybe I have to play through a debugger, as suggested.
 :dunno:

Title: Re: Yitzi's unofficial SMAX patch 2.5h
Post by: Yitzi on May 02, 2014, 12:28:42 PM

Quote from: gwillybj on May 02, 2014, 10:46:56 AM

:'(
 I still have the odd "Production--" crashes and the "Goto" pop-up crashes. They refuse to repeat upon loading the autosave; they occur later then, but it's inconsistent. I had a game go over 100 turns before a crash, then another 100 or so before another crash. A different game went 20 turns, and crashed almost every 10ish turns for a while, then stabilized (I'm persistent).
 I thought it might be my PC was dirty and overheating, so I cleaned it all out, including the fans and the heat sink. No joy. Still crashing. I hope it's not my oversized (360x180) maps. I can't let that go.
It's just SMAX. I can play an entire large scanario in TOAW2 (The Operation Art of War II) without a hitch - it's as graphics-intensive as SMAX.
I actually wish it would stick to crashing at a specific point, then I could upload the save. Maybe I have to play through a debugger, as suggested.
 :dunno:

It's probably something with the program, but unless someone plays through a debugger (I've been considering trying the GotM, in which case I would play through a debugger), there's really not much that can be done without the ability to reproduce the crash.

Title: Re: Yitzi's unofficial SMAX patch 2.5h
Post by: stecauri on May 02, 2014, 02:04:21 PM

Quote from: gwillybj on May 02, 2014, 10:46:56 AM

:'(
 I still have the odd "Production--" crashes and the "Goto" pop-up crashes. They refuse to repeat upon loading the autosave; they occur later then, but it's inconsistent. I had a game go over 100 turns before a crash, then another 100 or so before another crash. A different game went 20 turns, and crashed almost every 10ish turns for a while, then stabilized (I'm persistent).
 I thought it might be my PC was dirty and overheating, so I cleaned it all out, including the fans and the heat sink. No joy. Still crashing. I hope it's not my oversized (360x180) maps. I can't let that go.
It's just SMAX. I can play an entire large scanario in TOAW2 (The Operation Art of War II) without a hitch - it's as graphics-intensive as SMAX.
I actually wish it would stick to crashing at a specific point, then I could upload the save. Maybe I have to play through a debugger, as suggested.
 :dunno:

Do you play with the directdraw option for desktop resolution? or maybe some other options?

I'm asking because I seem to remember having similar crashes before, and I think I used them then. But don't have those problems anymore, now I just use 1024 resolution.

Title: Re: Yitzi's unofficial SMAX patch 2.5h
Post by: Buster's Uncle on May 03, 2014, 05:46:54 AM

Bump.

Title: Re: Yitzi's unofficial SMAX patch 2.5h
Post by: Buster's Uncle on May 04, 2014, 04:52:44 AM

Flood's over.  As you were, men.