it keeps crashing and crashing and crashing

[Ettan]

god damnit ! .,.so i just played this game for the last time maybe. it crashed...again. ive played maybe 10 multiplayer games. and i think at least half of them crashed. its so annoying. same thing with skirmish games...and same thing with previous version, 2.2.2, so either i get help here and fix it somehow or i drop this game for good. which sucks because i like the game. ok enough with the bitching and moaning.
im not sure exactly what triggers the crash, i havent noticed it crashing after doing something specific, bulding something etc.

ive got an amd athlon 64 dualcore 5600+ 2800mhz
2gb ram
nvidia geforce 8600gt. not the latest drivers i guess, if that matters

stderr.txt was empty

warzone2100.rpt contained this

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Error occured on Sunday, September 20, 2009 at 22:28:36.

Program: C:\Program Files\Warzone 2100\warzone2100.exe(warzone2100)
Command line: "C:\Program Files\Warzone 2100\warzone2100.exe"
Version: Version 2.2.3
Distributor: wz2100.net
Compiled on: Sep 13 2009 16:46:35
Compiled by: GCC 4.2.1-sjlj (mingw32-2)
Executed on: Sun Sep 20 20:23:27 2009

Pointers: 32bit

Compiled against PhysicsFS version: 1.0.1
Running with PhysicsFS version: 1.0.1

Misc Data:
[08:23:29]OpenGL Vendor : NVIDIA Corporation
[08:23:29]OpenGL Renderer : GeForce 8600 GT/PCI/SSE2/3DNOW!
[08:23:29]OpenGL Version : 2.1.2
[08:23:32]ALC_FREQUENCY = 44100
[08:23:32]ALC_REFRESH = 40
[08:23:32]ALC_SYNC = 0
[08:23:32]ALC_MONO_SOURCES = 255
[08:23:32]ALC_STEREO_SOURCES = 1
[08:23:32]OpenAL Vendor: Creative Labs Inc.
[08:23:32]OpenAL Version: 1.1
[08:23:32]OpenAL Renderer: Software
[08:23:32]Using language: System locale
[08:25:43]Current Level/map is Sk-MizaMaze-T3
[09:33:36]Current Level/map is Sk-Ziggurat-T3


C:\Program Files\Warzone 2100\warzone2100.exe caused an Access Violation at location 776f7dd2 in module C:\Windows\system32\ntdll.dll Writing to location 00000010.

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Log message: last message repeated 273 times (total 785 repeats)
Log message: info |10:08:13: [seq_Play] unable to open 'sequences/res_droid.ogg' for playback
Log message: error |10:08:16: [turnOffMultiMsg] multiple calls to turn off
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Registers:
eax=00000010 ebx=08b45a08 ecx=77009d78 edx=00512390 esi=00000010 edi=0000000c
eip=776f7dd2 esp=0022f5b4 ebp=0022f5c8 iopl=0 nv up ei pl nz ac pe nc
cs=001b ss=0023 ds=0023 es=0023 fs=003b gs=0000 efl=00010212

[Zarel]

Erm, that doesn't look like the whole .rpt file. Where's the rest of it?

[Ettan]

sorry but thats all there is

[Zarel]

Then it's probably a driver issue. Get better drivers.

[Ettan]

oh. yes ok, but drivers for what? graphics card? anything else? forgive me, im not so good with computers. perhaps you could give me a little more information ?

anyway. thank you for taking the time to look at my problem !

[Thyranim]

yep, graphics card as first
mostly depends on this

[Ilr]

I got a Geforce 7600-GT which is very similar to your 8600 if you think about it...(same OpenGL compatibility issues) and the Game was crashing for me a TON until I totally Reloaded all the Drivers for it and removed some kind of unknown device affilalted with it. To do this right though, you need to Boot up windows in Safe Mode just like you were removing a Kernal virus...


...A general question for anyone else... Why isn't WZ using DirectX?? I thought there was some option somewhere to make it render Software Layer? (with DualCores and that much RAM, he could probably even run TRUNK version on DX-7 compatibility mode, lol...)

[Zarel]

We got rid of DirectX and software support because no one had the time, expertise, and inclination to support them.

[lav_coyote25]

and also direct x is NOT cross platform at all. which is the MAIN reason it was done away with. from one who was there... xD

[Zarel]

...no, the MAIN reason was because no one had the time, expertise, and inclination to support them.

The easy way to see that this is the main reason is that if we did have someone with the time, expertise, and inclination to maintain a DirectX branch, it would certainly be accepted into Warzone, regardless of whether or not it was cross platform.

[lav_coyote25]

...no, the MAIN reason was because no one had the time, expertise, and inclination to support them.

The easy way to see that this is the main reason is that if we did have someone with the time, expertise, and inclination to maintain a DirectX branch, it would certainly be accepted into Warzone, regardless of whether or not it was cross platform.

What??? ummmm... me thinks i am going insane here... if i remember correctly - and i do - there was a big freaking fight over that and the people that won (you know who they are) got their way - not that that is a bad thing. perhaps whipper can back me up in this ... xD

[-Kosh-]

...no, the MAIN reason was because no one had the time, expertise, and inclination to support them.

The easy way to see that this is the main reason is that if we did have someone with the time, expertise, and inclination to maintain a DirectX branch, it would certainly be accepted into Warzone, regardless of whether or not it was cross platform.

I somehow doubt this. The codebase would turn into ifdef hell.

and also direct x is NOT cross platform at all. which is the MAIN reason it was done away with. from one who was there.

That sounds correct to me.

I think Zarel is thinking about the old software renderer?

[whippersnapper]

I somehow doubt this. The codebase would turn into ifdef hell.

and also direct x is NOT cross platform at all. which is the MAIN reason it was done away with. from one who was there.

That sounds correct to me.

I think Zarel is thinking about the old software renderer?

@ Lav: I would agree and only add to that an additional commitment by the WZ Project to NOT use proprietary software of any sort even with the recent exception provided by Eidos. That is - ONLY OSS resources will ever be used.

@ -Kosh-: I would guess the same if somebody was willing to give me a hundred bucks to read what Zarel had in mind definitively.

Regards, whip
.

[Ilr]

What??? ummmm... me thinks i am going insane here... if i remember correctly - and i do - there was a big freaking fight over that and the people that won (you know who they are) got their way - not that that is a bad thing. perhaps whipper can back me up in this ... xD

Not to add gas to this, but isn't it true that OpenGL is the only truly Open-Source rendering 'ware' that is still widely supported cross-platform? ...Everything else has to run through Wine or whatever b/c M$ won't stop playing 'Empire2.0'...
And that's a good enough reason right there b/c "the Project" is all about embracing open source? (if I'm reading this correctly)

[Zarel]

What??? ummmm... me thinks i am going insane here... if i remember correctly - and i do - there was a big freaking fight over that and the people that won (you know who they are) got their way - not that that is a bad thing. perhaps whipper can back me up in this ... xD

I may not have been there for the fight, but regardless, the reason we currently don't have a DirectX renderer is because of lack of a maintainer.

I somehow doubt this. The codebase would turn into ifdef hell.

...? Although we're starting to use OpenGL directly in a few places where we shouldn't, they can be abstracted out.

I think Zarel is thinking about the old software renderer?

Similar arguments apply to both renderers.