Crash (during wars?)

[lucasvinbr]

Users (me too) have been experiencing crashes during some apparently intense moments. Those crashes don't seem to be predictable, however, so the exact cause isn't known. It's possible to fight 3 or 4 wars without crashing, and then crash during, or after, another one

[lucasvinbr]

The crash I experience can be described as:

• game freezes for a few seconds (I'd say around 5);

• "game stopped working" window appears

• crash logs in event viewer seem to indicate a stack overflow happens

[YoruBestBudPingu]

I have the same issue. Wish there was a fix as this mod is awesome when it isn't suck frozen.

[lucasvinbr]

Hey @YoruBestBudPingu , is there any other info about the crash you've noticed? Like, when does the crash happen for you?

[DanteMarshal]

Hi I have the same issue. It happens quite always during wars. I'm gonna try to see if I can do something, perhaps debug it.

[YoruBestBudPingu]

Sounds good, let me know when the new version comes out! Awesome mod!

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[DanteMarshal]

UPDATE 1
Just checked windows' event viewer, And saw there was an unhandled exception on crash with code c0000005, Which is the code for an access violation.

[lucasvinbr]

Hmmm, I've looked around the scripthookvdotnet issues a bit and I think it could have something to do with one of the Natives directly called in this mod; maybe one of them is being called providing wrong parameters or invalid data?

[lucasvinbr]

Or... it could be something with the MarkAsNoLongerNeeded function and underlying natives. At least the "Access violation" error, that is (the stack overflow is probably something else)

[DanteMarshal]

UPDATE 2
Murphy's Law :|
I've been playing the game waiting for a crash to debug for 3 hours now, And no single crash happened :|
Before this, there were crashes every half an hour at least.
Though, I've changed the number of my Active gangs. There were 12, But I saved them and used a maximum of 5 Gangs for debugging. No crash happened as long as I was playing.

Though, The exception is unlikely to happen just because of high number of gangs. It mostly looks like a logical error in code.

[lucasvinbr]

Haha yeah, it's pretty unpredictable. Have you made any changes to the code before testing? Even if you didn't, did you recompile the mod or something like that?

[DanteMarshal]

Nope, Nope. I used the same dll I used before, just attached the Debugger to game process.
I'm gonna play with my old configuration next time I have the free time to see if they are the problem.
The things I changed before it didn't crash anymore are :
GangData.xml - Removed some gangs, kept only a few.
ModSettings.xml - Changed 'maxCoexistingGangs' from 12 to 5.
TurfZoneData.xml - Removed all turfs to mark them myself in the game.
After that I completed about 10 wars and no crash happened.

[DanteMarshal]

OK, I've got some UPDATEs 3

• I failed to have a single crash while Debugger is attached, But when there's no debugger crashes happen.
• I got two crashes with debugger off, After winning wars (not while in war)
• My brother has a more high-end laptop and uses the same version + same configuration. He doesn't get a single crash.

I think, it might be performance / memory related because when I make the following changes, I don't get crashes anymore :

• I reduced the number of gangs in "GangData.xml" and set max coexisting gangs in "ModOptions.xml" to 5 (from 12)
• I emptied "TurfZoneData.xml" from zones and added zones manually in game

It's not a fix of course, But I think it can be a workaround for now !

[lucasvinbr]

Hmmm, were the crashes without the debugger all of the "access violation" type?
Those crashes that happened after winning wars, were they right after winning or a few seconds or more time later?