Minidump

and other problems...

Published on March 28, 2008 By Verkinix In Technical

So yeah, 3 times in the last 15 mins either myself or my friend would get minidump issue in MP online. It worked fine the other day when we were playing. Got about 5 hours in and then saved. We came back to it a day later and played about an hour and it worked fine then too. Now we are picking it up again and getting a minidump every few minutes of play. It's really really really annoying! I mean sheesh, I have 4Gigs of RAM and 500 Gigs of HDD space. I dont see the problem! Most background processes are off when I'm playing so there isnt a significant amount of space being taken up.

Another bug I found was with Vasari. Now last time I was playing, I maxed my tech tree. This included the +15% fleet capacity and I had tons of ships, etc. My fleet capacity was around 0 so I had all the ships I could possibly build. Now when I load, I have -560 fleet capacity! So aparently the +15% FC research is no longer functioning (or was functioning improperly before. Either way it needs to get fixed. I cant simply kill off a ship or two to build a simple migrator. I'd have to kill off half of one of my fleets in order to do such things which is absurd. Anyway, those are the issues I've been experiencing lately and I hope they get fixed soon.

Thanks!

Comments (Page 4)

shaft187

on Apr 10, 2008

Also Blair what is the time frame for when 1.1 may be out ballpark or at least what time frame are you targeting? Most likely none of my group can/will play until it comes out potentially.

Annatar11

on Apr 10, 2008

Can you describe the nature of what is going wrong so that we know what actions in-game trigger it?

I talked to Blair a bit about it yesterday, and I don't think they even know, because they can't reproduce it at all on their end. From the minidumps they know that it's a sync issue, but they don't know why or where or how it happens.

That's why they're asking for volunteers who can reproduce this constantly to play with their special build that will produce sync logs, for them to narrow down exactly how and where it happens in hopes of a fix.

So if your group is up to it, signing up to help with the special build would probably go a long way towards IC being able to narrow this one down and fix it for 1.1. This special testing itself should get started shortly after 1.04 launches today.

shaft187

on Apr 10, 2008

Sounds fair, I just wish I had seen this post much earlier, we burned a TON of time and spent money on new hardware when if we had known (if Blair had known at that time) we could haved money and mental wear and tear. In any case we have buy-on from 3 people (me and my other two compatriots) who crash every game in this manner to test on Friday. I am married, have a pregnant wife, etc. and can only play for one day a week and tomorrow is it. If I can get the three of us set up over the next two days I'll probably have useful data to send to IC by early AM on Saturday. We're up to it just let us know how to do it.

Annatar11

on Apr 10, 2008

You could email for the sign-up (per Blair's post a bit above) and ask about a more exact time frame, to see what you will or won't be able to do

Since I don't know the exact plan

BlueSolitare

on Apr 10, 2008

Annatar, if you were in any way responsible for bringing this thread to Blair's attention.. Thank you.

shaft187

on Apr 10, 2008

Ditto, I think Annatar may have championed this from the pinned post if so thank you and we will try to assist in tracking this sync issue down.

shaft187

on Apr 10, 2008

Ditto, I sent my e-mail off I'm just glad to be able to assist in some manner so we can get on with playing sins. Thank you Annatar and Blair for your assistance.

SkyHaussman

on Apr 11, 2008

I apologize for the MP dumps.

thanks dude. i will be there to help test when you're ready.

Xboxerdude

on Apr 19, 2008

maybe i should help this has hapened to me now on 11 seperate occasions. HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO PLAY. plz fix it im tired of it crashing 4 hours into the game. and i know it is widespread cuz it always happens in one of the games i join with somebody other than myself and eveery1 who is in lobby1 has experinced it ask em.

Weezer_boy03

on Oct 26, 2008

Hello, I see these posts are a few months old, I am having issues with the game crashing me to desktop every single game, i have to appologize to people before we play letting them know im not leaving the game intentionaly. I get about 30 to an hour into the game and it freezes up on me (Seems to do it mid scroll) and crashes me to desktop. Very agrivating since my dad plays too and its fun to play with him, but hard when you are constantly having to remake the game. Im not sure if any of this has been resolved. I will search some more. Any help would be wonderful.

Very Respectfully,

Dark

Howdidudothat

on Oct 26, 2008

they are working on it. Habitual minidumping is not normal though. Make sure to restart your game client everytime you want to play. V1.1 should be fixing some of the reasons for the minidumps.

wyma_xl

on Jun 09, 2009

yea i understand where your coming from. but i have played many PC game on and offline and none of them have had this many problems. i dont know it seems almost unprofessional. which really suck because i too love the game

wyma_xl

on Jun 09, 2009

Maby this can help somebody. i found that the trainers are whats giving (me at least) the mini dumps

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