Official bug reporting thread

[galdon2004]

So, in order to make it easier to figure out the source of any issues, I'm starting up a thread for them.

The latest update seems to have introduced a lot of strange issues, due to upgrading Stencyl and having some code become obsolete. I have been trying to iron out these bugs as quickly as I can, but as they can pop up anywhere it's a lot to search through, so I am very sorry about any inconveniences that have occurred this update.

Anyways, if you can share as much information about what you were doing when you encounter a bug, and what your operating system is, i will be trying to figure out the root cause of the various crashes and other issues as quickly as I can.

[F.L.P-e tank24]

cause i was able to mindbreak thru library just fine

[galdon2004]

F.L.P-e tank24 eredeti hozzászólása:

on closer inspection it seems to be loading onto mistys profile that causes the crash

I just took a look. It looks like I accidentally had Misty's profile still loading the old atlas in addition to the new one, perhaps loading both atlases was too much for the game, I'll get another fix up shortly.

[Chalupacabaras]

galdon2004 eredeti hozzászólása:

The exe is not the file that the anti-viruses tend to delete if they get touchy in my experience. You may want to check the anti-virus to see if it quarantined another file.

Sorry about all the crashes that have been persisting for a long time. The startup crash is usually anti-virus related but most of the other crashes are memory related. I am trying to split up the atlases more to make the memory load lighter. Its been a bit of a slow process as I don't know until I hear more reports whether what I tried last has worked.

UPDATE 05/06/2024: AV didn't flag or block anything in the reports. However, the "Click to Start" asset isn't showing, while clicking anywhere on the startup screen automatically crashes the game.

I've also experienced disappearing assets on a different dev's game, and on a different engine, so it definitely seems to be something on Stencyl's side (in your case.) Have you had a chance to contact their support department?

Thanks again for your patience, teamwork makes the dream work!

[kalanyr]

Barn is stuck on 0 income for me, this is true with Country cleared and after a soft reset and character level doesn't seem to matter.

The passive spiral -nosis also seem to crash the game for me (is the speed based on Helen's level or mouse level maybe and I've passed the limit ? )

ETA - Possibly related my hospital is marked as ready with the area cleared but there doesn't seem to be an event there to access, there's no yellow bubble and clicking on the building goes to the facility interface.

[galdon2004]

i will investigate the barn and hospital issues.

Unfortunately the -nosis animations are pretty large in filesize, so it may be the same crash as with the monster girl catching crash; the game can't handle loading that large of a file on your computer.

[kalanyr]

That's odd because it worked prior to the immediately most recent update, did something change there ? I just figured it was because my levels had risen considerably.

Edit - Actually thinking about it, I have 5 or 6 extra girls and since it appears the girls have to be stored in memory at all times to access their profile and costumes that might be enough to do it, trying to load the -nosis animations might just push me over the edge. I'll try the monster girl game and see if it crashes now.

Edit2 - Bingo. Seems like the last 1-4 girls is what puts you over the limit. The capture game crashes now too. I'm not sure why that would cause an issue though ( I have plenty of memory and my CPU and GPU don't seem stressed ).

[kalanyr]

New post because I've identified the issue it's Stencyl's 1.5 GB default memory limit when compiled as 32-bit (the 64-bit version defaults to 4GB ) , if I use the -Xmx2048 parameter it works fine.

You should be able to change the default somewhre in your project settings, though if you go over the default 1.5GB you need to make 64-bit JRE a dependency because the 32-bit one can't handle it.

You should probably leave a decent amount of wiggle room if you're planning on adding more girls.

It seems like this is only a temporary issue too, once the files are loaded the memory use goes back down. even with everything set to maximum (Full Screen, -nosis and running the monster girl game it drops back to ~1405 MB after everything is loaded ).

Edit - I bet this is responsible for some of the start up crashes too, because if you're in this situation near the end game an had the -nosis already set, you could get stuck in a position where you can't change the settings because the game crashes on load because you have too many characters now and run out of memory.

[Eihm]

Hi there,

Going to Elkantar menu makes the game crash.
Summoning DH makes the game crash.
Sometimes it might happen that the game crashes for no reason, after a bunch of time passing.
Pretty frustrating when you wanna get all the girls.

Edit -

Town Hall's function doesn't work ; there's no interaction. You only can put one girl, not the 2 others for some mysterious reason.

[76561199448575974]

galdon2004 eredeti hozzászólása:

i will investigate the barn and hospital issues.

Unfortunately the -nosis animations are pretty large in filesize, so it may be the same crash as with the monster girl catching crash; the game can't handle loading that large of a file on your computer.

The game can't finish updating process in steam client:

"UPDATE ERROR. Access to files is denied"

[Barryman]

In the gallery the barn-CG's from Branda and Delia (the nun, in the gallery below Branda) are in the list but they do not work.
Raven has a harem-lord/ -lady gender-swap issue: When gender is seet to male the CG in the profile and story show the correct gender but the text"balloons" talk about the other gender and vise versa. In the gallery the picture in the list shows the other gender than is set in settings.

[Objectionable]

Summoning DH crashes the game

[76561199448575974]

galdon2004 eredeti hozzászólása:

i will investigate the barn and hospital issues.

Unfortunately the -nosis animations are pretty large in filesize, so it may be the same crash as with the monster girl catching crash; the game can't handle loading that large of a file on your computer.

Hi, can you fix the error with updating? I can't even launch the game.

[Nebula]

firefly2k.ph eredeti hozzászólása:

galdon2004 eredeti hozzászólása:

i will investigate the barn and hospital issues.

Unfortunately the -nosis animations are pretty large in filesize, so it may be the same crash as with the monster girl catching crash; the game can't handle loading that large of a file on your computer.

Hi, can you fix the error with updating? I can't even launch the game.

Go to the Games install folder and run the game as Admin.

[Sair Velrend]

The convo reset button doesn't appear for me. I've been told it's supposed to be in the upper left of the girls' profile pages, but there's nothing there except my spiral power. I've checked a girl that had all her conversations already read in the current loop, I went to another girl and read all her conversations to see if the final conversation tripped a flag or something, and I tried to do a pearl reset to see if that caused things to reload strongly enough to make the button show up, but none of that appears to have done anything.

EDIT: It finally appeared for me. It looks like Steam had no idea there was an update and didn't bother downloading anything until earlier this month. I had wondered if that was the case, but couldn't get it to check the servers no matter what I did (like verify game files and such). Though I admit I never tried reinstalling the game or anything because I didn't want to lose my progress.

[Objectionable]

The game crashes a lot for me, usually when changing areas or going back to the main screen from the map. It autosaves so it's usually okay I just wish it didn't happen, sorta inconvenient