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[0.32 1Z4 Crash] Out of memory

May 6, 2010 10:46:47 PM from Elemental ForumsElemental Forums

On turn 140 I got an out of memory:

and:

As has happened before, I found an unzipped dump file, which I zipped and is here.

Debug.err is here.

dxdiag is here.

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Reply #1 May 7, 2010 2:11:17 AM
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@Publius of NV Where do you find the dump file? I am still having out of memory errors too (https://forums.elementalgame.com/381778).

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Reply #2 May 7, 2010 7:28:02 AM
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Quoting lobosan,
reply 1
@Publius of NV Where do you find the dump file? I am still having out of memory errors too (https://forums.elementalgame.com/381778).

https://forums.elementalgame.com/364285

"For crash reports in particular, the most helpful file you can provide is a memory dump that the game will generate when a crash occurs. If you're running Windows XP, there will be a zip file with the memory dump located in Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Stardock\Elemental - War of Magic. If you're running Windows Vista or 7, the zip file will be located at ProgramData\Stardock\Elemental - War of Magic instead."

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Reply #3 May 7, 2010 11:27:36 PM
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I downloaded today's update to 0.32, started a new game, and still hit the out of memory, this time on turn 170.  From the debug.err:

Debug Message:  - Ending Turn 170 -
Debug Message:  Current Memory Usage: 1430032 KB

See OP for dxdiag.

debug.err is here.

Dump file is here.

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Reply #4 May 8, 2010 12:19:04 AM
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I hit the same out of memory error when I pressed the End Turn button. The dump file was size 0 for some reason. But I've included the debug and dxdiag files anyway. Not sure if it matters but the turn before I got housing tech so all the houses should of been upgraded that turn.

Debug: http://pastebin.com/AXb9rmWb

Dxdiag: http://pastebin.com/m9zfYwUv

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Reply #5 May 8, 2010 12:43:44 AM
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When I've hit this error the .zip file for the dump is 0 bytes, but there's a .dmp file with the same name in the same directory that is the actual dump before it got zipped.  So I've just been erasing the .zip, zipping the .dmp, and putting that in dropbox.

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Reply #6 May 8, 2010 1:02:10 AM
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After hitting the problem after updating to tonight's version, I uninstalled, erased all the files in both Elemental directories, and did a clean install.  Started a new game, and this time I hit the problem on turn 280.

Debug Message:  - Ending Turn 280 -
Debug Message:  Current Memory Usage: 1386061 KB

debug.err is here.

dump file is here.

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Reply #7 May 8, 2010 6:39:31 AM
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It looks like that these OOM errors are hardware related as well, because 1Z4 is absolutely stable on my comp&OS, and only a few people are having these oom problems. Weird...but again I don't know anything about hardware&software errors with regard to game developing.

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Reply #8 May 8, 2010 9:45:18 AM
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Out of memory to me, too.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6141154/20100508_debug.err

The dump-file is empty and not zipped.

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Reply #9 May 8, 2010 7:07:50 PM
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Hit it again.  This time I had just placed a market in a level 5 town, but the graphic for the market, when placed, came up as a black square.  I was in the mode where you're zoomed in on the city when placing buildings, and when I clicked "done" and it automatically zoomed out the Out of memory window came up.  Then a second or two later another OoM window popped up over the first one.

dxdiag is in the OP.

Debug Message:  - Ending Turn 390 -
Debug Message:  Current Memory Usage: 1292480 KB

debug.err is here.

There was a zero byte .zip file where the dump should have been (which I've seen before), and a zero byte .dmp file with the same name.  Perhaps the second OoM window happened when Elemental was trying to create the .dmp file.

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Reply #10 May 8, 2010 8:55:52 PM
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This time I hit it on turn 95, and got three (count em, three!) OoM windows:

debug.err is here.

Once again, a zero length .dmp file was created.

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Reply #11 May 9, 2010 4:20:44 AM
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Got the same problem while trying to save the game:

debug: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6449852/debug2.err

dxdiag: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6449852/DxDiag.txt

 

For some reason I got three dump files (and three out of memory messages), but two were 0 kb:

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6449852/Elemental0_32-2010-05-09T10-11-19-845.dmp

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6449852/Elemental0_32-2010-05-09T10-11-19-845.zip

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6449852/Elemental0_32-2010-05-09T10-11-20-619.dmp

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Reply #12 May 9, 2010 9:49:37 AM
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Got a similar problem: crash upon turn 59, out of video memory. Got a 0Kb dump unfortunately, so no memory dump this time...

 

Debug & Dxdiag files: http://twilight.mahoro-net.org/smog~/Elemental_crash_report_20100509.zip

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Reply #13 May 9, 2010 7:35:00 PM
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Yet again.

Debug Message:  - Ending Turn 145 -
Debug Message:  Current Memory Usage: 1390493 KB

debug.err is here.

dump file is here.

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