Game crashes when you have bullpen widget open and go to another program

DaBears · 07-07-2017, 04:06 PM

Has happened three times.

Matt Arnold · 07-10-2017, 12:42 PM

I'm definitely not seeing that when I test. You're opening up the bullpen widget in-game, and then changing to something else (like excel or explorer or something), and when you come back the game crashes on you? Does this happen every time with the bullpen widget open, or only sometimes?

Thanks for anything you can give us to help track this down.

DaBears · 07-14-2017, 12:31 AM

Sorry Matt, was offline for a few days.

I will play around with it this weekend in a side game and see if it happens again. I have had it three times so stopped using the widget (which I do like a lot, by the way). Best I remember, here's how it played out:

1. I was in a live game, managing
2. I opened up the widget to look at my bullpen
3. I Alt-Tab'd to Excel (I keep stats on my team during the game, like a scorecard in Excel)
4. I Alt-Tab'd back and the program went into the mode of "OOTP has stopped working", the small box in the middle of the screen with a green scrolling bar going across.
5. The game did shut down.

When I re-launched, there were no issues in getting the program back up but obviously the game I was in at the time of crash was lost. Actually worked out okay as I was losing like 10-0 the first time, so I thought, "Cool." Not as lucky the next time as I was winning! The third time, I did it intentionally after the first pitch to see if it happened again.

I just assumed once I posted others would have the issue as well and they usually know a lot more on the tech side than I do. Will run it this weekend and let you know.

07-07-2017, 04:06 PM	#1
DaBears All Star Reserve Join Date: Jun 2013 Posts: 501	Game crashes when you have bullpen widget open and go to another program Has happened three times.

07-10-2017, 12:42 PM	#2
Matt Arnold OOTP Developer Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Here and there Posts: 15,933	I'm definitely not seeing that when I test. You're opening up the bullpen widget in-game, and then changing to something else (like excel or explorer or something), and when you come back the game crashes on you? Does this happen every time with the bullpen widget open, or only sometimes? Thanks for anything you can give us to help track this down.

07-14-2017, 12:31 AM	#3
DaBears All Star Reserve Join Date: Jun 2013 Posts: 501	Sorry Matt, was offline for a few days. I will play around with it this weekend in a side game and see if it happens again. I have had it three times so stopped using the widget (which I do like a lot, by the way). Best I remember, here's how it played out: 1. I was in a live game, managing 2. I opened up the widget to look at my bullpen 3. I Alt-Tab'd to Excel (I keep stats on my team during the game, like a scorecard in Excel) 4. I Alt-Tab'd back and the program went into the mode of "OOTP has stopped working", the small box in the middle of the screen with a green scrolling bar going across. 5. The game did shut down. When I re-launched, there were no issues in getting the program back up but obviously the game I was in at the time of crash was lost. Actually worked out okay as I was losing like 10-0 the first time, so I thought, "Cool." Not as lucky the next time as I was winning! The third time, I did it intentionally after the first pitch to see if it happened again. I just assumed once I posted others would have the issue as well and they usually know a lot more on the tech side than I do. Will run it this weekend and let you know.