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oolite window closing
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:31 am
by firemanpek
just downloaded oolite and the game windo keeps quiting and closing for no reason. I have windows vista
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:36 am
by another_commander
Which version did you download? What are your PC specs? Do you have a log from the game? It should be inside the oolite.app/Logs folder and is called Latest.log. Please post the contents of this file.
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:55 am
by firemanpek
Im not very good with computers, i downloaded ver1.65 it lets me take off and fly for a while then the window closes. I can't find the app. log/latest log, i tried cntrl return on screen but i couldn't find it. Sorry, i was better when i had a commodore 64
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:58 am
by firemanpek
my PC specs Dell Inspiron 1525. don't really know much more about it
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Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:01 pm
by Lestradae
Hi firemanpek,
try again with version 1.72.2 installed, really do. It may be called a test version, but is more stable than 1.65 and many oxps will no longer run with the de facto outdated version 1.65.
Cheers
L
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:23 pm
by firemanpek
Thanks so much Lestra. Its so cool how you people help each other out. Its working fine...yeeehaaa. just like the c64 days
Re: oolite window closing
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:25 pm
by Screet
firemanpek wrote:just downloaded oolite and the game windo keeps quiting and closing for no reason. I have windows vista
Could it be that you've been resizing or moving the window? I made a few tests with 1.72.2 on XP32, XP64 and Vista 32 recently...and it turned out that the Vista system began to massively leak memory when I did move/resize the window! It was possible to continue the game for a brief amount of time, but then the memory was exhausted and the game crashed (closed).
Screet
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 2:47 pm
by Zanasj
On the topic of crashes... 1.72.2, Win XP, some OXPs installed...
I make several jumps and dock in most systems, and when I press F1 to launch, the game crashes to desktop. There's no notable symptoms, other than variable (small) lag on docking / launching depending on the number of ships and asteroids present (I think). What's interesting is that the game never crashes on the first few launches. A series of once-per-launch memory leaks piling up?
Could anything interesting be found in the logs; what should I be looking for?
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 3:02 pm
by Thargoid
I would wonder if that particular one is due to when the system is being set up either just before or just after launch (depending when the OXPs do their stuff, on this.shipWillLaunchFromStation or this.shipLaunchedFromStation).
I have noticed that if an entity is spawned within another one, then you can get a desktop moment. Not usually a problem, but when things like system.legacy_addShipsWithinRadius(...) are used it can sometimes cause things to appear in the wrong place, within something else (e.g. if you go it near a station, the added ship can occasionally be within it if you're unlucky).
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:12 pm
by Lestradae
Zanasj wrote:On the topic of crashes... 1.72.2, Win XP, some OXPs installed...
I make several jumps and dock in most systems, and when I press F1 to launch, the game crashes to desktop. There's no notable symptoms, other than variable (small) lag on docking / launching depending on the number of ships and asteroids present (I think). What's interesting is that the game never crashes on the first few launches. A series of once-per-launch memory leaks piling up?
Could anything interesting be found in the logs; what should I be looking for?
Perhaps your problem is related to the one here:
https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.ph ... 4&start=15
Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 4:47 pm
by Zanasj
Perhaps your problem is related to the one here:
https://bb.oolite.space/viewtopic.ph ... 4&start=15[/quote]
Could be. However, now that I'm in galaxy 3, I've been so far unable to recreate the crash, despite flying approximately equally long runs as before, usually without visiting one star system twice. I haven't disabled any OXPs that I used when the crashes did occur. Oh well. Needs more testing, as the saying goes.