"Crasher" avatars live up to the name.

[Chewy102]

Ran into someone in a public world wanting to test their crasher avatar and it hard locked my PC. Not kidding, I have 32gb of RAM and it instantly shot to 100% used hard locking my entire PC.

Couldn't even move my mouse. Had to force a shutdown as nothing works when running at 1 frame every 20 seconds.

I already have shaders, particles, and effects turned off by default for everyone because of spamming and assumed it would help against crashes as well. Clearly a wrong assumption. Seems that's not enough and now I gotta block all animations as well. Avatar sounds to boot as they're near worthless alone.

Might soon enough have to hide avatars entirely if that doesnt help.

While I crashed I could hear someone on loop saying "it has enough polygons to..." or something like that. It explains why disabling shaders and particles wasnt enough. But how the hell can you even upload an avatar like that if true?

Shame I cant even do a proper report either. Black Cat, public lobby, at roughly between between 2:00pm - 2:20pm eastern US time and it was one of those rabbit like avatars. Cant remember much else other than what letter his name started with and he was either green or blue rank.


In short. Beef up your safety settings and report anyone who claims to be or have a crasher avatar. Dont assume like I did and risk PC failure.

Crashing your game is one thing. Crashing your PC is a hell of a lot more.

[bon]

can't you go into logs to find out who loaded what and when?

i think this is the output destination but i might be wrong:
C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\LocalLow\VRChat\vrchat. The output log is named output_log-HH-MM-SS.txt

https://help.vrchat.com/kb/article/26-i-want-to-report-someone/

[Chewy102]

Originally posted by con:

can't you go into logs to find out who loaded what and when?

i think this is the output destination but i might be wrong:
C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\LocalLow\VRChat\vrchat. The output log is named output_log-HH-MM-SS.txt

https://help.vrchat.com/kb/article/26-i-want-to-report-someone/

I'll give it a look later today. Simply went to bed after the crash and wont be able to check till after work.

[Chewy102]

Originally posted by con:

can't you go into logs to find out who loaded what and when?

i think this is the output destination but i might be wrong:
C:\Users\[Username]\AppData\LocalLow\VRChat\vrchat. The output log is named output_log-HH-MM-SS.txt

https://help.vrchat.com/kb/article/26-i-want-to-report-someone/

Found the log and sent in the report. Thanks.

[Phazon Xenomorph]

I really hate the crashers, I've had purple users crash a Great Pug intentionally. They had some Jojo avatar (The Hand i think?) and when they used its effect EVERYONE Crashed, once i loaded the game back and met up with the friends i was in the room with, we were able to confirm it was a room wide crash as everyone got booted.

Why do they think that's funny? I can understand low access users popping by to be obnoxious but it's really sad when the Purple level people do it too. Like you need (unless Im wrong) both a lot of hours in the game, plus uploaded avatars and/or worlds in order to reach purple level, those users should be able to be trusted, but no.

[Zero Ryoko]

Sounds like a Mesh crasher, only hiding avatar will stop those.

[Chewy102]

Ran into another crasher today, but this one wasn't as bad. Didn't lock my entire PC up this time! Just spiked my GPU (GTX 2080) to 100% and simply crashed the game. It was as simple as opening Steam's overlay to exit the game.


The real reason Im bumping this topic though is to say just how freaking MASSIVE this log was! 22,294KB and has 656 THOUSAND lines of text!

That's one hell of a log and covered just 3 hours of gameplay. But a bulk of the log though was from a completely different avatar failing to load. Inflated for certain due to that other avatar failing to load and causing error spam, but it is still one of if not THE biggest text logs Iv seen to date.


So a word of advice. Give the mod team a bit of help in reading your error logs. If you suspect a crasher, at least find his name in your logs to confirm spelling. That alone should help massively in pin pointing exactly where a crash happens in your logs. And if are super kind, tell the mods what line the crasher's name is in. My crasher was at line 648,091. Rather deep (8K lines) into the log thanks to that unrelated load failing avatar.