MAgic Crash

[Saitre Dragon]

I have the the fix for magic and i still crash after casting the spell 5 times. I there anything else i can do besides bt on the vertecs buffer and pdate the video drivers. Is the right media to go through this? The Error reads:

Something unepected happened in Planeshift: Crystal Blue
Details: Exception_Access_Violation at 693605C0 with Win Xp.

Answers? Ideas?

[neko kyouran]

If that's always the error code or at least reoccurs reguraly, you can check this thread http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=26465.0 and see if that error code exists there.  If it isn't in that thread, you could send a dump file as outlined in that same thread.

[Bartholin]

I have the the fix for magic and i still crash after casting the spell 5 times. I there anything else i can do besides bt on the vertecs buffer and pdate the video drivers. Is the right media to go through this? The Error reads:

Something unepected happened in Planeshift: Crystal Blue
Details: Exception_Access_Violation at 693605C0 with Win Xp.

Answers? Ideas?

chances are that your graphics card cant take the load of mem needed to keep it active.
even with vertexx buffers on. i to have the same problem and i found that its becuase i dont have a good enough graphics card
502 ram and yea ).
so i fix crashing by a) not using spells :\ and b) turning around when around thoise that do.
sorry.. thats all i got

[Karyuu]

Crash Number:69xxxxxx while casting "missile" spell or entering BD area. 6972xxxx related to Nvidia drivers and 6973xxxx to Nvidia GeForce, even in a non specifical situation (e.g. just fighting)

It shouldn't have anything to do with the load on your card. Are you sure you get the exact same crashes?

[Saitre Dragon]

Answer to all,

I looked a the message i shall try to recreate the crash(which i have fond is rather easy). I will save the file and turn it in. Also, I would have to agree with Bathilion on the memory overload. I run a P4 2.8GHz with 512 Ram and a ATI 345M IGP. I will see how this runs differently on the system i am building for someone. I think it is the same crash category but not exact in numbering. At least it happens with weakness and misslie. Freeze doent seem to be affect. I think becase of a little grapihcs applied to it. I told a friend about this game and said they should have atleast 1 GB of Ram for non loaded map and 2 GB of Ram for loaded with a 256 Video card. I think this would help alot with most of the graphics related errors. I hope this is not to far off topic

[hulla]

if you use "window" open the ps setup push "vortex buffering" on "on" close setup restart the game (but ALL the problems dont disepear  whit this )

[emeraldfool]

Same thing happens to me. I have the latest drivers and vertex buffer is on, and I can even survive watching a spell or two, but after several go off I crash out.
Though I'm sure it does, I'll check and see if it's got the same Crash no.

[AryHann]

The issue that can be solved with the workaround of the vertex buffer on is usually due to a not perfectly new Nvidia card.

If you have a quite detailed situation of your case I recommend you to try to speak with res2k or Jorrit on #crystalspace on the irc server irc.freenode.net
What I can see is that the problem is in the graphic card (that number is usrely to the nvidia card) but then why it happens, I don't know.

[Bartholin]

if i cast weakness. see it cast, cast magic missle, see it casted at close range/ or a lot cast at farther range. i crash...

vertexx bugger is on. am i doomed to never beable to use magic? naa.. i can use fire blast

[Saitre Dragon]

After upgrading my  computer i have had no problems futher with this bug. I have tried and tried hard to get it to crash but i am still able to play with out the error. I think part of it was the fact of the memory for the video card(ATI IGP before Now ATI Radeon X1300) got over loaded with packets at once cause the crash. I also made sure i turned on the buffer jsut in case.

[AryHann]

Bartholin, most probably the choices you have are three:

1) Have the crash all the time
2) Stress res2k with your problem
3) Change graphic card to a more advance and recent one

[emeraldfool]

Bartholin, most probably the choices you have are three:

1) Have the crash all the time
2) Stress res2k with your problem
3) Change graphic card to a more advance and recent one

Before I potentially piss off someone influential, could you tell me exactly what this Res guy could do to fix my problem? I don't wanna download IRC and all that just to get a "It'll be fixed in Beta" or a "I'll see what I can do" or even have the obvious stated...

[Bartholin]

Bartholin, most probably the choices you have are three:

1) Have the crash all the time
2) Stress res2k with your problem
3) Change graphic card to a more advance and recent one

i posted that to show that my first post was the most correct answer.. that the crashes are a bug.. but rather what happens when you are running crap cards... though thanks for input 

so ya.. i KNOW i need a better card.. though.. umm.. didnt use to have the problem before the update.. UMM... intresting.. very intresting...

[AryHann]

Bartholin, most probably the choices you have are three:

1) Have the crash all the time
2) Stress res2k with your problem
3) Change graphic card to a more advance and recent one

Before I potentially piss off someone influential, could you tell me exactly what this Res guy could do to fix my problem? I don't wanna download IRC and all that just to get a "It'll be fixed in Beta" or a "I'll see what I can do" or even have the obvious stated...

Res2k is a developer in Crystal Space.
He is the one with the best knowledge about this issue and about how CS is related to a graphic card.
If you don't like IRC, there is the CS forum as well as his email.

[Bartholin]

when the new release version came out.. did you change anything for the graphics? maybe added somthing to them so that now i cant cast the spell.. cuz last version i was able to cast any spell with out crashing.. but now i do