regular CTD

[thebrain]

Getting this on a regular basis, perhaps every 5-10 spawns. Happens on two machines, one of which uses NVIDIA graphics and XP, the other uses win7 and ATI.

ATI drivers are certainly up to date, NVIDIA ones not so sure.

The win7 machine has 6GB of memory, so its not a running out of RAM issue.

Both of these machines ran ww2ol relatively fine and stable 6 months ago, going back several years....so I'm thinking it might be something that has happened to the client/server during recent patches.

Here is the last bit of the ww2_log.txt file from one of the machines:

[sun Feb 19 18:22:49.259 2012] Netcode2:66.28.224.144 Session Statistics:

Actual bytes per second sent 1120

Actual bytes per second received 8976

Message bytes per second sent 729

Message bytes per second resent 72

Message bytes per second queued 729

Message bytes per second processed 8537

Message bytes per second ignored 0

Total bytes sent 1563997

Total bytes received 11532725

Total message bytes sent 988021

Total message bytes resent 176

Total message bytes queued 988021

Total message bytes received 10936661

Total message bytes ignored 0

Messages in send buffer, by priority 0,0,0,0

Bytes in send buffer, by priority 0,0,0,0

Messages in resend buffer 2

Bytes in resend buffer 144

Current packetloss 0%

Average packetloss 0%

Elapsed connection time in seconds 1482

[sun Feb 19 18:22:49.259 2012] spe

[sun Feb 19 18:22:49.259 2012] t:23 sending pEx with result: 23

[sun Feb 19 18:22:49.624 2012] t:23 closing code:30014

[sun Feb 19 18:22:49.624 2012] t:23 got ENOTCONN:10057

[sun Feb 19 18:22:49.624 2012] t:23 closing code:30122

[sun Feb 19 18:22:49.969 2012] pmr

[sun Feb 19 18:22:50.084 2012] t:24 closing code:30122

[sun Feb 19 18:22:50.084 2012] spe

[sun Feb 19 18:22:50.084 2012] pEx/no cell

[sun Feb 19 18:22:54.895 2012] t:3 pAcc

[sun Feb 19 18:25:37.463 2012] t:3 pAcc

[sun Feb 19 18:25:39.392 2012] tciRx ro:2 ip:0.0.0.144

[sun Feb 19 18:25:39.686 2012] t:3 sNot

[sun Feb 19 18:25:39.686 2012] rvj

[sun Feb 19 18:25:39.976 2012] tciNoCnx

[sun Feb 19 18:25:40.164 2012] Netcode2:66.28.224.144 Opening 66.28.224.144...

[sun Feb 19 18:25:40.164 2012] t:25 on:1 h:1109188752 p:27015 aCell

[sun Feb 19 18:25:40.164 2012] ! cell active

[sun Feb 19 18:25:40.164 2012] redired

Date and time: 2/19/2012 18:25:40

Program compile time: Jan 23 2012 11:58:51

File version: 1.34.9

GL Vendor: ATI Technologies Inc.

Renderer: ATI Radeon HD 5800 Series

Access violation: Illegal read by 50013D39 at 00000000

OS-Version: 6.1.7601 (Service Pack 1) 0x100-0x1

[50013D39] (granny2): :

[5001458B] (granny2): :

[thebrain]

could have something to do with alt-tabbing while waiting to spawn in as it happened just now doing that.

It seems now I can regularly wait 10-15 seconds to spawn in once I click the enter world button, no disk activity or anything. This delay happens on both PC's so sometimes I alt-tab while I'm waiting.

[jar644]

Although I hate giving this advice for something that shouldn't be necessary...but it might be worth looking at.

It might be worth uninstalling and reinstalling the game with the latest full installer on one of the machines to see if there's a difference.

Were you able to just update for the last patch, or did you have to reinstall? I had to reinstall completely because of the update bug, but have had a fairly smooth experience playing lately. Granted, that's relative to the disaster that was December and January...

[thebrain]

Thanks for the reply jar. Fortunately on both machines I missed the patching problems, so I don't think it is down to this.

The XP machine downloaded the full 700Mb+ installer a few days ago when I resubbed my 2nd account, the other machine got the small version of the patch without the bug.

Whilst annoying, its not something that is troublesome enough to make me want to reinstall and I suspect it is a general bug with the client or server that will be picked up in due course by CRS.

[GOPHUR]

Access violation: Illegal read by 50013D39 at 00000000

This is what we need to look at. We actually collect this automatically but I'd like you to post here when you crash. Don't think it is a reinstall issue.

Please if you can describe exactly what you are doing when it crashes. Then post the access violation code.

[thebrain]

Gophur, in all instances where I've had crashes to desktop, I've been waiting to spawn into or out of the gameworld. Once in the gameworld the game seems stable other than the usual lag issues and an occasional CTHL which then reconnected ok.

I'll keep an eye on it and post the codes and a description of exactly what I was doing if it happens again.

[pinky76]

Just wanted to update that I've been playing quite regularly since I reported this issue(2nd account thebrain), and I've not experienced any further CTD's.

Whatever has been done (to server?) looks like it may have fixed the issue.

[Pegasus]

Just wanted to update that I've been playing quite regularly since I reported this issue(2nd account thebrain), and I've not experienced any further CTD's.

Whatever has been done (to server?) looks like it may have fixed the issue.

On your Nvidia machine or AMD?

If AMD, can you list your AMD driver version and CCC graphic settings?

Edited March 5, 2012 by pegasus

[GOPHUR]

OK but keep me posted.

"The win7 machine has 6GB of memory, so its not a running out of RAM issue."

That doesn't mean anything. Each program can only use so much ram and if it uses more than that (1.7GB) in windows, it will crash. There is a terrain based memopry leak that causes pilots to CTD. It mostly happens when spawning in, covering lots of ground, respawning.