CTD - Base Defense Missions

[Alexio]

Whenever I do a base defense mission for one of the civilian stations. The game inevitably crashes to desktop. Missions start out fine, but with one of the later waves of ships, the game just crashes. I tried this with 3 different civilian stations and it's always the same result.

edit: it's base defense (not station defense)

[ouch67]

If your fleet is too big this happens. Basically there are too many ships trying to spawn into the game world. Try upgrading the smaller ships in your fleet with fewer bigger ones. Try to keep your fleets under 50 ships. Optimally around 30 or so.

Maybe the dev has an exact number?

Hopefully the game will get a 64 bit version so we can have larger fleets. But as of right now that 4gb limit with 32 bit apps is just a pain you have to live with.

[chaosavy]

What ouch67 describes as the cause of the issue is very possible - however -

Could you email me the save file?

copy/paste

Save files are located here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Void Destroyer 2\Save

my email address is - paul @ void destroyer . com

The save file that replicates this would be the best.

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thanks!

[Alexio]

My fleet consists of a single corvette ship. I'm emailing you the latest save file as we speak.

[chaosavy]

thanks

[Alexio]

So is it because of the number of ships it spawns? is it a game limitation on memory or somthing to do with my hardware?

part of my DXdiag is bellow (can email whole thing if needed)
https://ibb.co/jxc4pc

edit1: dam... steam doesn't let me use [img][/img]

edit2: can do a video of it if necesary

[chaosavy]

I got your save file but I have a bit of a back log at the moment. So hopefully I'll be able to take a look at this soon and will follow up in case I have any questions or results.

Judging by your single ship fleet - it doesn't sound like a memory issue.

[chaosavy]

I checked out the save file but there's no station defense mission in sight.

Do you have one with a station defense mission handy?

[chaosavy]

Oh wait... station defense or base defense? Those terms are confusing...

Anyway - could you email me a save file that most closely reproduces the crash?

thank you

[Alexio]

I just sent you a saved game where I am docked at Demeter

The mission name was "Defend Base: Demeter."

I cant save while in the base instance, so I load the autosave it made when I entered Demeter and the mission "Defend Base: Demeter" is no longer there. It was there the first time I enter the base and then (when I load the saved game that is created to make sure the mission is there) the mission to defend demeter is gone.

This is the save. So is the mission availability not stored in the saved games? it it only with autosaves? or is it defend base missions only?

So I don't actually know if it's random to the point to where ifu load mysaved game if that mission is going to be there or not. I'm not sure hw to go about making the mission be there because I cannot save during an instance when the mission already started since it doesn't let me save in instances. Is there a way for me to force the game to save when I exit the station and start the base defense mission?

[Alexio]

The crash happens when I exit Demeter (or some other civy station I'm supposed to defend). I start helping the locals kill of pirates or whoever's invading and (no fail) in one of the later waves of enemy ship the game crashes to the desktop.

[Alexio]

I just checked. I load the same saved game multiple times (a save when I'm inside demeter station) and it gives me a different set of missions every time.

[chaosavy]

Generated missions are a bit randomized and the mission list in a base doesn't persist across saves - but once accepted saving then loading a mission should work.

I'll check out the save file. thanks.

[Alexio]

The problem is that I can't accept a base defense mission and then save. Since it will crash during the mission and I can't save during that mission.

[chaosavy]

You can save while docked - after accepting the mission.

Anyway - I tested the mission several times at competent difficulty and didn't crash. Then I tested at elite difficulty and crashed. So getting as near a test save to the issue really speeds things along.

Will keep testing and trying to sort out the issue.

[chaosavy]

I think I found the crash bug - though its not specifically related to the defend base mission - its more related to missiles being hit by projectiles - under certain rare-ish conditions.

So I'm not certain if this is the bug that you are seeing - but its still a worthy bug to find/fix.