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Minidump crtash at exact point in MP game

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Minidump crtash at exact point in MP game

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Hello everyone, My friend and I have been playing SoaSE for a while now and enjoying it. However, at exactly 3 hours 18 minutes and 5 seconds, my friend crashed. The game freezes, at which point he has to alt tab, click "ok" on a minidump error, and then the game crashes out. At first we figured it was random, so we tried again, but it crashed at the exact same point.

He has a 7950gt, athlon x2 3800+, 2gb of ddr2 ram, asus m2n-sli deluxe nforce 570 sli, Windows XP. None of it is overclocked and he's not having issues with other games. He re-installed to the newest video drivers, sound drivers, and then re-installed the game. None of this has fixed it, the error always occurs at the same point in the MP game.

Now the fact that this occurs at the same point in the game regardless of what he has done so far makes me believe it is an issue with the game and maybe the nvidia/creative drivers. Today we'll try lowering his graphics when we both get off work, since I noticed that helped others with some issues. Has anyone else experienced this exact type of problem, where the game crashes with a minidump at the same point in the game?

When he crashes I'm able to continue playing with no issue and no crashes until completion, so its definitely something going on between him and the game.
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Reply #26 from Sins Forums Top
Players with older game versions shouldn't be able to play on ICO, IIRC :P
Reply #27 from Sins Forums Top
yeah this minidum error starte with galaxy forge maps. (But I haven experienced this error since i play my own maps from galaxy forge but friend get this dump error now...)

Everything works fine whe played 6 hours and 58 min. Whe saved becouse it was 4:00 AM ^^
then whe loaded the latest atosave but sincee then my friend get those minidumps.....

Whe LOVE this game BUT with all those BUGS and erros its starting too annying.

hope this bug get fixed soon, then the epic games could stard.
Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #28 from Sins Forums Top
I cant even play the game at all, the minidump usually occurs when I try to start it up before I even get to the main menu
Reply #29 from Sins Forums Top
but sincee then my friend get those minidumps
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Make sure to have him send the dumps in to support@ironcladgames.com. If it happens from a particular save, send the save too for good measure.
Reply #30 from Sins Forums Top
Hey Everyone, ok must be an issue with older systems or bad network/router problem at his house. I just had a crazy 6 hour game at my place this time. Using 2 nice systems, both identical core 2 duo's with 8800GTX's and not even one stutter.

we set up a medium match, 4 player game, added 2 AI characters and went at it. i had everything cranked, high resources, fast speed, you name it, did a lot of saves, screen grabs, and zooms while battling with a full set of units. ran like a charm.
I'm a big supreme commander fan but this game is really nice. Best RTS for now! It's like a mini eve online game but you can play it all out in 6 hours.

So back to my original issue, it's not happening at all on my network and systems.
where as at my bodies house i was connected to 2 other older systems and i crashed in the middle of a lan game with the minidump issue.
Also noticed that i had better ping between the systems, constant 33ms and never did it jump up and pause for a second like it did at my friends house on his super duper gigabit router.

I will send in the saves/dumps next time we try it on his network kryo.




Reply #31 from Sins Forums Top
2'nd system: Core 2 Duo E6600, 2gig ddr2 800MHz, 7950 GT

Got the same config, latest video card drivers and also crashes in multiplayer at certain time point with mini-dump message. Strangely, I don't get crashes when I play 1 on 1 games. I've sent all my info to ironclad and they're working to resolve this for me. Hopefully, they will soon ;-)
Reply #32 from Sins Forums Top
I don't think that problem has something to do with the router or Network settings...
rather then the Windows, we(me and three other buddy)played an 4vs4 on a galxy forge map,everything works fine we played hour after hour then this minidump save crashed the game on XP and those two on Vist havent got any problems(just the runtime error that accurs if your video and effect settings are on highest.)
we try a bunch of routers and Hamachi networks and windows networks no issue that minidum appear at the same specific time(tested with autosave before the minidum appears).

A friend of my played Sins on his notebook with an ATI video card he crashed too with minidump save.

greetings
Reply #33 from Sins Forums Top
Hey dudes, just thought you should know, this is being worked on by the devs. Its a desynch and not a driver issue although since anything can cause desynch, it could be a driver issue, but thats unlikely. basically, something is breaking determinism between the various clients of the game, for me it happens right off the bat as soon as any combat occurs (first 15 minutes usually).

glad actually this bug still exists, or else id be doing nothing with my free time but play Sins :)
Reply #34 from Sins Forums Top
v1.03 due out soon. Has this issue been fix?
Reply #35 from Sins Forums Top
I totaly have a crash when i play MP. It only happens in MP and I have played about 4 SP games with no crash. For me the crash happens bout 3-5 min in to any MP game that i join or host. Sent all my info to support already and hope they can find the cause and fix it.AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3500+, MMX, 3DNow, ~2.2GHz1024MB RAMNVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS
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I get the exact same thing.
Reply #36 from Sins Forums Top
MAN iron clad really needs too fix the mini dump thing cause its the 1 perfect game i had 10 players, not lag , no 1 left for 2 hours and guess what WE GOT A FUCKING MINI DUMP SO U BETTER FIX IT SOON GUYS , that was the 1 perfect match i had on this game ruind from a mini dump
Reply #37 from Sins Forums Top
Hi there, i also have the mini-dump error, but only occasionally, think its only happened 3 times, played many mp games. Happens at random times with me?

Reply #38 from Sins Forums Top

Seems to me that this issue will be never fixed. For me the minidump crash happens randomly (almost every time) when I switch (Alt+Tab) to Windows. But happed to me couple times in gameplay also, seems to me that this is an game engine issue. Looking forward that the team behind SoaSE optimalization project will get over this sooner. And no, I don't need to upgrade ram, as the game runs almost perfectly even on highest settings.  :rofl: