Crash when leaving a scene/Pressing Tab

[Maelubiyet]

Title. This doesn't happen all the time but sometimes the game crashes when changing or leaving a scene or pressing tab. Disabling load textures on demand helps. What might be the problem?

Edit: This only happens when playing my mod.

 

[RecursiveHarmony]

I guess that's your mod.

Disabling load textures on demand helps.

There is an infamous memory limitation that affects 32-bit applications and warband is a victim of it unfortunately. It basically doesn't allow 32-bit apps to use all of the available memory, but your mod seems to small to have a memory issue. You can start warband in windowed mode and observe the memory usage in the task manager.

 

[Eärendil Ardamírë]

My guess would be a shader issue, not sure if a specific shader pack or the one from Native is getting used. At moddb you also wrote that it only happens on Linux and Mac?
He is using Native shaders.

 

[RecursiveHarmony]

@Maelubiyet
Played your mod for a couple hours at very high settings and couldn't make it crash It looks pretty stable.
However i've seen another bug in the troops.txt

trp_town_10_master_craftsman {!}Town_10_Craftsman {!}Town_10_Seneschal 0 4126 0 0 3 0 0
40439920002071052921011954222634137015319850303850651429519409283072 0 431253861325407421036619593339943315758043807246597970933903576268800 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0 -1 0

There are 2 invalid items in the guy. (Town 10 is 'Shattered Skull')
Values look like face codes. You may have pasted face codes to where items should be in the module_troops.py. Check this guy.

 

[Eärendil Ardamírë]

But did you play on a Linux or Mac?

 

[RecursiveHarmony]

Are we talking about linux and mac? I just use good old windows 10
Edit:
Checked the moddb page. He says:

Common Crashes and Linux/Mac Compatibility

Many players are aware that Legacy of the Dragon doesn't work on Linux and Mac. Also it sometimes crashes when you start a new game, or load and there is less common "leaving a scene" crash. When I first started creating the mod, I didn't know anything about these operating systems and as you know the early phase of the development process was rushed because of my approaching military service. So when I first realized these problems, I decided to pay attention to them after the release. But if I were to try to narrow down the problem early in the development phase, it would've been easier.

If you check my posts on taleworlds forums, you would see that I'm actively looking for solutions to these problems. Also I asked more experienced modders for help and thankfully Swyter pointed out how I could find the source of these crashes. And I think I'm close. It's something in the troops file or some of the models/textures are corrupted. Finding the source of the problem requires a lot of grunt work and it's quite stressful, so I'm sorry to announce I postponed this process to this summer as with work, school and all that I'm not sure I'm ready to take on the struggle. But, sooner or later, I will fix these problems.

Doesn't that mean it crashes in windows?

 

[Eärendil Ardamírë]

If I recall his posts at moddb correctly, these problems are appearing for players with Linux and Mac.

Edit: Found the article: https://www.moddb.com/mods/legacy-of-the-dragon/news/upcoming-update-discord-server-and-other-things

 

[Maelubiyet]

So I had two problems.

The first is, game would start on crash, at "loading map file", this happened sometimes on windows (1 out of 5 times) and every time on linux and mac and making it unplayable.

The other is sometimes when you're trying to leave a scene, it would crash to desktop. This happened on windows (not sure about linux as you couldn't even start the game).

I'm 90% percent sure they are related as it often happens on windows when you alt tab back and out.

Now, this:

There are 2 invalid items in the guy. (Town 10 is 'Shattered Skull')
Values look like face codes. You may have pasted face codes to where items should be in the module_troops.py. Check this guy.

This worked. Fixed this troop, switched to linux and the game successfully started. It was this one troop. Can't believe it was something this simple.

Regarding the other crash, it usually shows up after playing a little, so I will have to test it. I'm pretty much sure it's fixed too, if not, it was the lesser of two dragons anyway.

Thank you so much. I will add you all to the credits.

RecursiveHarmony, Eärendil Ardamírë, Swyter and phallicassortment. Thank you all for helping me track down the problem.

 

[Eärendil Ardamírë]

I have only been talking a lot, RecursiveHarmony found the error here ^^

 

[RecursiveHarmony]

I haven't tried a lot. I was working on a editor for these m&b games. It has a couple error detection mechanisms. One of these is what i call "Type Mismatch". It catches unparseable data types. In this case, those values are not 32-bit integers, so the application catches those.
Here is a screenshot (Work in Progress, so gui kinda sucks ) T is int.

Spoiler: image

 

[Maelubiyet]

Wow. It looks useful.

 

[Eärendil Ardamírë]

Maelubiyet, do you want to mark this problem here as solved or are still some bugs persisting?