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Master SeePlusPlus
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Posted: 17th Oct 2014 06:02
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Hey,

So I have been working on a 3D Horror game in DBPro for about half year now, and quite frankly it looks really good. I was playing with sky spheres for one cutscene, ran the program, and all of a sudden after scene two I got the error "Horror.exe has stopped working."

I undid everything I put in and it still happened. On average, it crashed at the same spot about 50% of the time, and works the other 50%. I put in markers to figure out what part of the code it crashed during and there is nothing that should be causing it in the code.

I have heard of these problems before, but not one where I don't see a coding issue. I ran the program on another computer and still received the same error occasionally.

Also, it is 1600 lines of code, so I can't really just post the code up here, but if there are any ideas I can check them out on my own.

Thank you very much.
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GreenDixy
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Posted: 17th Oct 2014 06:48
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i have gotten that error lots of times normally it is something small I have missed and using code tags people have put up a lot more then 1600 lines

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Posted: 17th Oct 2014 17:59
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The problem is not the length, it is that I plan on selling this game so I do not want to make it open source haha
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Van B
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Posted: 17th Oct 2014 18:48
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Whenever I run into issues like this, I check things that affect memory more than anything. Like, making sure that any new model files work perfectly in DBPro, double checking memblock creation and modification, array and typed array handling.

If you would like another pair of eyes to have a look, then I'd be happy to help if I can. I'm a moderator here so my actions are more accountable - but anyway I could have a look with complete non-disclosure and I have a couple of debugging tricks that can help find these sorts of issues. Drop me an email if you are interested.

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Posted: 17th Oct 2014 20:05
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I am working on a game since 2 months ago, my goal is to sell it on steam too, my project is currently about 8000 lines (space lines and comments included) and so far i never get a crash (only sometimes when i try to run the game within the editor and it stops working as soon as I launch it, but never midgame), the only times i got crashes when i was trying to implement new code was:

1- Using .3ds objects, so make sure your objects are all in .dbo or .x (i use .x for the animated models and .dbo for anything else)

2- Trying to use the command "set shadow shading on"

So you can start converting the models from .3ds to .dbo or.x and if that didn t fix the problem try removing the shadow commands (just to detect if is that the problem).
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Posted: 17th Oct 2014 20:05 Edited at: 18th Oct 2014 04:26
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I am a little busy now, but when I can I will be sure to check for memory leaks and any new model implementations and such. If I can't I will probably e-mail you. Thanks!

EDIT: I will check about the objects recently pointed out as well.
EDIT2: I did not use either of those, so that's not the problem. It's weird that when it does crash it is in the same spot, so I know the area of code that would be wrong but I feel like I commented enough out..

EDIT3: I am fairly certain I figured out what section the problem lies in (and yes, I believe it is in the memory). Will post updates shortly.
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Posted: 20th Oct 2014 04:57
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I know this is a late response, but I am fairly certain I have isolated the problem. Will attempt to fix, but just removing the code removes the error.
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