Game Freezes/Crashes

[theapollo]

I create custom survival games and i can never finish a 24 hour map. it will freeze, or crash any where between an hour and 6 hours. I constantly have to restart the game to continue to play and start over. Any advice to fix this i really enjoy this game.

I apologize if there is another discussion on this with a fix.

Thank you

[Narsil [SB_FTW]]

Hi syl, I can confirm this problem in survival and skirmish, in offline and online mode.

In survival i will after some time (around 4-5 hours on my computer) start loosing sprite on some mobs, then new stuff i build, then new buildings. After maybee 5-10 minutes at this point the game crash. I have try to lower mobs spawn, or the number of mobs, but for what i could have check it doesn't matter => the game seem to crash at almost the same time.

I have try in skirmich against dark elf and astalans only, and it had crash after around 6 hours a few moment after astalan took some spell that send a lot of sprites (cold magic especialy). But i think it was at the time i fight against cristal golem that the game have start going on the crash mode.

I have try with and without any compagnon, and it don't seem to matter. Online or offline don't seem to have effect too.

I've just have done another game with aurora againt the undeads and crepusculum and all was fine until i was in the gold age, maybee a new item, stuff, spell in this age have a problem ?

i really don't know yet what is the cause of this big problem. I will continue to test on my own ...

Anyhow i'm almost sure that the loading problem from savegames,could help catch the bug, because it's possible to load game you have saved until you have some problem on your game. At this point if you save and try to reload the game go on an infinite loading.

I will send you a save that seem corrupt, to your email, in hope it could help you see what is the problem.

Bon réveillon et joyeux noël quand même !

[pardalmadgod]

I also have this problem game freezes when trying to load

[Narsil [SB_FTW]]

The last patch seem to have resolve the impossibility of loading game. But the game still crash.

my last test was on a survival game with a setting of 1600 monsters on map : all was fine with no visible problem (like disapearing sprite or so) until the number of monsters was over 1600. I think i was at around 1550 monsters spawned and i reduce their numbers to around 1250 mobs before the timer tick to the next wave => at the exact moment the next wave spawned and send the total number of monsters to 1699 the game start being very "laggy" and crashed 10 second later.

Another thing is that when i reload the auto save, the total number of mobs and the wave number are reset to 0 on the hud, even if the waves are still send at the right time and all mobs are at their right position on the map. But even if i have already at least 1600 mobs spawned the game still continue to create new mobs each waves.

I send you this save too to help see the problem.

[Wadsworth]

I can't complete Demigod mode on the defending Aurora adventure map. It always crashes after an hour or two.

[MurxusMaximus]

Game crashes randomly, can confirm.

[blueferral]

game crashing for me after several hours

[Teralitha]

The game can crash if there are too many things on screen and you have FPS setting too high,(best to keep it at 24fps) and of course if your graphic card settings are also too high. Demigod mode could really have alot of enemies on screen.

The good news is, you never really lose any progress from a crash, as all game data is saved in real time.

[blueferral]

i7-8700, GTX 1080 and 16 gig RAM aren't enough. That's a program in need of some fine tuning.

[Teralitha]

How powerful your rig is doesnt matter. The game is limited.

[Mordtziel]

The good news is, you never really lose any progress from a crash, as all game data is saved in real time.

The bad news is, if you're crashing in adventure, you have to restart from the beginning or your last auto save (if you have it turned on...seriously why isn't this on by default and why don't they have timestamps associated with them?)

i7-8700, GTX 1080 and 16 gig RAM aren't enough. That's a program in need of some fine tuning.

How powerful your rig is doesnt matter. The game is limited.

And pretty much this. You can watch the resources. My rig is far more powerful than yours, yet nothing is spiking up or anything when the crashes occur. It's something breaking in the game after some condition is met.

EDIT: btw, are there output logs generated by the game that I can be giving the developer to help hunt these crashes down?

[Teralitha]

He usually just asks people for their save game files.

[blueferral]

Kinda proved my point Teralitha

[Mordtziel]

Originally posted by Teralitha:

He usually just asks people for their save game files.

Interestingly, I had the game crash while just sitting there afk post mission...12? I think. The aurora walls mission where gold golems are added. So it can crash with no monsters anywhere and the player not doing anything. Though there are 100 villagers on that map.

[Teralitha]

In my experience, crashes often happen because the FPS setting is high. What FSP setting do you use? It should be 24 be default. I think Syl ought to remove the FPS option altogether as all it does it make crashing happen more often.

[Mordtziel]

My fps setting was 60 by default and I left it there (I was actually upset that I didn't have a 144 fps option).
I do think it's worth noting that I've had a 7 hour session on....10? (Shadowgate mission) without crashing. So if I had to guess, it's something about the gold age. But that's based on my anecdotal evidence.