Crash when ship leaves shipyard

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Crash when ship leaves shipyard

May 03, 2009, 04:30:55 am

v3.3 pak128

When I hit "Start" for a ship to leave the shipyard the game crashes. I do have the latest en.tab file. I've tested rail, road, tram and planes leaving their depots and no crashes, just for ships.

Re: Crash when ship leaves shipyard

Reply #1 – May 03, 2009, 10:37:58 am

Hmm, I can't reproduce that. I have found a crash, however, when one tries to replace a ship using the replace tool, which will be fixed in the next version, to be released soon. Perhaps that might fix it? In the meantime - can you tell me what platform (i.e., Windows or Linux) and what architecture (i.e., 64 or 32 bit) that you are using?

Re: Crash when ship leaves shipyard

Reply #2 – May 03, 2009, 12:48:44 pm

Windows 32-bit

Re: Crash when ship leaves shipyard

Reply #3 – May 03, 2009, 12:51:59 pm

Hmm, same as here. That's very odd. Have a go when version 3.4 is released a little later to-day, and see whether that solves the problem.

Re: Crash when ship leaves shipyard

Reply #4 – May 04, 2009, 02:04:00 am

James -

Even with v3.4 (using pak128) the program still crashes when I press Start to send a ship out from the shipyard. I tested with a "fresh" download of pak128, just in case it is a problem with the pak, but no avail. I am using your most recent config files, as well. That's frustrating that you can't reproduce the problem; is there anything else I can do to help figure out the source of the problem?

Re: Crash when ship leaves shipyard

Reply #5 – May 04, 2009, 10:47:42 am

Can you send me a copy of your saved game, with the ship waiting in the shipyard, just before you press "start"?

Re: Crash when ship leaves shipyard

Reply #6 – May 04, 2009, 08:35:27 pm

James -

I went to make a save game for you, but before doing so I figured that in order to avoid any compatibility problems I should use an unaltered version of simuconf (I always change catch area to 2, as well as make some other minor changes). So I used a fresh copy of simuconf and, lo and behold, no crash!

So I went through and, one by one, changed the values in simuconf to the values that I normally use and I think I've found the problem now. When enforce_weight_limits is set to 2 (weight limits strictly enforced), the game crashes when sending out a ship from the shipyard.

I hope you can reproduce this now. If it matters, this is with pak128.

Thanks

Re: Crash when ship leaves shipyard

Reply #7 – May 04, 2009, 09:52:41 pm

Aha! Thank you! That is an excellent lead. I will look into that and test that setting more thoroughly. I think that I have an idea where the problem might be. Excellent beta testing - thank you again!