Linthar

Join Date 02/2006

[.802][Crash]Trying to access research technologies screen

If I try to access the research technologies screen before building a study in a city the game will crash. Unfortunately the game doesn't seem to be generating the debug.err and memory dump files correctly so I can't post them.

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Same problem.

AMD 4400 x2

2Gig CAS2 Ram

ATI x1900xtx

wd 250 x2 Raid 0

Sound Blaster X-Fi

Win XP Pro x32

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Frogboy

Join Date 03/2001

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That is so weird. Can anyone else give more details on this?

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@Frogboy: I think this might be related to the bug I posted here: https://forums.elementalgame.com/383824

It seems like a crashdump is usually not created after this crash (research or kingdom button-crash), but in that topic i have uploaded a crashdump that I think was the result of clicking the research tab.

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It does not happen every time, but I have had it occur

-when I click the Kingdom overview button.

-when I get into the overview and select research

-when I select dynasty

-it has also happened when I select one of those option from the main screen when no unit city is selected and the research/dynasty/etc. options are shown in the lower left panel.

And as said in a couple places, no memory dump file is created.

EDIT: Also, it is the only type of crash I have had.

Luckily, the game's start-up is lightning fast.

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For me it's reproducible via not having a research 'station' If you click it before you can use it, ker-rash. If I click on the uh, ?quick-bar? icon when I have no item selected on the map it comes up with the error (in game normal error), of you have no research...which I BELIEVE it should if you click it in the main kingdom menu, but apparently no 'hook' for it.

edit: Loaded a game before my Tutor building was complete, used the bottom menu...looks like the kingdom menu came up for a brief second and the game 'clicked' on research for me and crashed.

Interesting to see it didn't go RIGHT to the research menu but to the kingdom menu.

ADD note: while typing this my game is open in a window over a beehive. Somewhat unsettling bug report background noise.

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I just had this again.

I was able to reach the research menu through the circular icon just to the right of the portrait. Then on the left margin where the other kingdom options are I selected the Kingdom Detail button (that title is not right). There was a crash and again no dump .zip file.

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This may be a long shot, but I was having the same problem and when I turned off Advanced Lighting (due to an Nvidia driver bug reported earlier), it stopped happening. Yes, I see there is a user with an ATI card, but all I know is once I turned off Advanced Lighting, I could no longer reproduce the crash.

Can someone else who is experiencing this problem turn it off and see if that helps. I'm very curious.

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Same problem. XP 32, 3gb ram, 12mb ati 5670 with recent drivers. No debug.err or crash zip file.

Ctd at the start of the game, 1st time I try to go into the research screen after founding 1st city, before completing any buildings.

Dxdiag at http://pastebin.com/SiQQDRJt

Windows event viewer says (same message & address each time)

Faulting application elemental.exe, version 0.8.0.2, faulting module msvcr80.dll, version 8.0.50727.4053, fault address 0x00050458.

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