Author Topic: Chronic CTD (Read 981 times)

Zanth · « **on:** November 01, 2003, 10:19:37 PM »

This one has me pulling my hair (what is left) out.

AH will just exit and put me at desktop. I can play my other, no offense, more advanced and graphicaly intense games for hours and all cool. For some reason though AH has taken to just exiting to my XP PRO desktop with no error message, nuthing. It just quits.

No temperature issues (and like I said everything else runs fine). I can run 3DMArk in a loop for 24 hours and not a single bump in the road.

I am freakin without a clue, the game just quits without error.

Have tried:

Complete windows reinstall

Complete game reinstall (from fresh download)

I know it sounds like a hardware problem, but why:

(1) AH only game or application effected?

(2) Why when game crashed there is no Windows XP error report generation?

I am next going to dual-boot to windows 98 and see if trouble recreates.

Martlet · « **Reply #1 on:** November 01, 2003, 11:49:37 PM »

Can you throw up a copy of your DxDiag?

Skuzzy · « **Reply #2 on:** November 02, 2003, 05:04:36 PM »

If it is happening online, then AH is simply shutting down, due to a lost connection to the server. Run a pingplot to the MA and see if there us something amiss somewhere.

Roscoroo · « **Reply #3 on:** November 02, 2003, 05:29:05 PM »

A bad terrain will cause this to happen also ...

If someone changes the terrain and your still using the old one ..
(note : bolth terrains have the same name and this causes the problem)

just another thing to look at ..

Zanth · « **Reply #4 on:** November 03, 2003, 10:07:38 AM »

Not had time to try any of this yet, but will try later today thanks for the ideas. Yeah the game is just quitting without warning. No messages in game of from windows at all.

(67 discos last tour, I have since put in another video card but that wasn't the answer either)

Zanth · « **Reply #5 on:** November 03, 2003, 03:26:57 PM »

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Originally posted by Skuzzy
If it is happening online, then AH is simply shutting down, due to a lost connection to the server. Run a pingplot to the MA and see if there us something amiss somewhere.

Is happening again. First flight was diving on a plane poof back at desktop no error message.

I turn on neotrace and leave running in background second flight. I can hear it pinging in my headset. Sure nuff 1/2 way to base poof at desktop again. Neotrace screen is already up so was easy to see looked fine. Was no record of lost packets along the way either.

This is a weird one. So far this tour 2 flights = two "Discos"

Zanth · « **Reply #6 on:** November 03, 2003, 03:33:24 PM »

http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/ah_164_1067895049.zip

dxdiag

zmeg · « **Reply #7 on:** November 03, 2003, 04:39:10 PM »

Zanth next time it happens record exact time then go to control panal\administative tools\event viewer, look under applications and system, find an event whitch matches the time of the CTD and double click it. It will tell you what happend.

Skuzzy · « **Reply #8 on:** November 03, 2003, 05:08:53 PM »

Zanth, try this. Move the AH "settings" folder to another name. This is require all your stuff to be reconfigured, but just try it and see what happens.
You might have some corruption in one of the config files.

Also, if you have any squad art in the "squads" folder, remove it.

Make sure you are using stock AH sounds as well.

Zanth · « **Reply #9 on:** November 04, 2003, 08:22:16 AM »

Had it happen 4 times this AM. Finally it let me stay on for a good while. It is odd that I can just rerun the game and sometimes it works.

- No entries in event viewer, though thta was a good suggestion. (Windows is plenty happy which is confusing, you would think Windows would complain but it treats this as a normal program termination)

- I have already done the new installed fresh download, new config files and all.

- I have deleted the squad art folder a few times, I suspected it early on because when our squad reorganized was about when this started. (Is there anyway to stop the squad art from loading again?) (I will trying leaving my squad and see if it helps)

For lack of other clues I am starting to suspect vox. Are there some diagnostics I can do to eliminate vox?

- Can I disable vox, say maybe close those ports with my firewall? (I have already eliminated firewall as the trouble)

straffo · « **Reply #10 on:** November 04, 2003, 09:09:31 AM »

Does it happen when you are close to a specific plane ?

I got insta-CTD when attacking 109F4 I was having a corrupted sound file ...

zmeg · « **Reply #11 on:** November 04, 2003, 11:46:35 AM »

I've had coruped plane files to cause CDT on a couple of occasions, uninstalling and reinstalling did not repair the problem, but when I uninstalled and defraged before reinstalling the problem was fixed. Also not having an event entry sugest there's nothing wrong with your connection.

Zanth · « **Reply #12 on:** November 04, 2003, 03:06:58 PM »

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Originally posted by zmeg
uninstalling and reinstalling did not repair the problem, but when I uninstalled and defraged before reinstalling the problem was fixed.

Don't know why this would work but I'll give it a try later. ( I have defragged but it was after clean install.)

Today I have left the game running while I am away offline for some hours. When I came back jet was still doing lazy circles on runway.

Have a jet (jet is one I have lost a few times to this) zoom round the edges of DA for about an hour (minimized) I check on it from time to time seems ok. (oops when I sent this aceshigh shut down - but that was probably from me running too many applications)

Skuzzy · « **Reply #13 on:** November 04, 2003, 06:28:58 PM »

Uninstalling AH does not remove the "settings" folder. You have to manually remove it. Resetting things will not to the trick either.

Zanth, just move the "settings" folder to a new name and try it. You can always restore the folder back if that is not the problem.

Zanth · « **Reply #14 on:** November 05, 2003, 09:09:34 AM »

I got tired of fooling with it yesterday, but I did go as far as to delete/move all AH stuff from the C drive and defrag it again. I also went ahead and disabled all the services you mentioned in your "Tips" post (trying to cover all recommended bases)

Will do a clean reinstall later today to see what happens and report back.