Random Crashes ?

redranger · 07-10-2014, 12:10 AM

Does anyone else experience random crashes? I have a league I had been working on getting setup for quite some time. Finally got it set up and ran a draft.

Got into spring training. It only crashes while playing a game. It always seems to happen late into the game (ie 7th inning or after) Out of nowhere a windows dialog box appears saying OOTP has stopped working. Only option is to click OK and it completely closes out the game.

In approx. 12 games played I have had this happen 6 times now. It doesn't appear to be anything routine or repetitive that I can put my finger on. Only happening late in the game.

I ran a debug/trace but nothing makes sense to me in that. Hopefully captured something in it.

At first I was running in windowed mode (Win 8 laptop with external monitor attached) In this mode I had 5 out of 8 crashes. Changed to full mode and went the next five games flawless. Thought I might have been on to something, but then ...boom.. another crash.

I was just wondering if anyone else has any common symptoms. This used to happen to me in OOTP14 (same machine/monitor) but was very rare ..maybe 1 in 25 games.

Edit : Disregard....I searched and see where Markus has a patch coming out that is supposed to fix memory issues causing crashes. Lets hope that this is one of them

hfield007 · 07-10-2014, 05:25 AM

I've gotten random crashes ever since patch #3. I only sim out games but I'm always changing screens, happens about once every hour when I play and it turned me into a constant saver.

Markus Heinsohn · 07-10-2014, 05:26 AM

This will be fixed in the patch which will be released tomorrow. Basically, the problem is RAM usage, if the game runs out of memory it crashes. The limit was 1.7 GB, the patch increases this to 3.3 GB max RAM usage.

hfield007 · 07-10-2014, 06:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Markus Heinsohn

This will be fixed in the patch which will be released tomorrow. Basically, the problem is RAM usage, if the game runs out of memory it crashes. The limit was 1.7 GB, the patch increases this to 3.3 GB max RAM usage.

i was under the impression that was for 16 bit pcs and not 32? perhaps i read what you had said about it before incorrectly.

07-10-2014, 12:10 AM	#1
redranger All Star Reserve Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Birmingham, Alabama Posts: 575	Random Crashes ? Does anyone else experience random crashes? I have a league I had been working on getting setup for quite some time. Finally got it set up and ran a draft. Got into spring training. It only crashes while playing a game. It always seems to happen late into the game (ie 7th inning or after) Out of nowhere a windows dialog box appears saying OOTP has stopped working. Only option is to click OK and it completely closes out the game. In approx. 12 games played I have had this happen 6 times now. It doesn't appear to be anything routine or repetitive that I can put my finger on. Only happening late in the game. I ran a debug/trace but nothing makes sense to me in that. Hopefully captured something in it. At first I was running in windowed mode (Win 8 laptop with external monitor attached) In this mode I had 5 out of 8 crashes. Changed to full mode and went the next five games flawless. Thought I might have been on to something, but then ...boom.. another crash. I was just wondering if anyone else has any common symptoms. This used to happen to me in OOTP14 (same machine/monitor) but was very rare ..maybe 1 in 25 games. Edit : Disregard....I searched and see where Markus has a patch coming out that is supposed to fix memory issues causing crashes. Lets hope that this is one of them Last edited by redranger; 07-10-2014 at 12:28 AM. Reason: Hopefully found answer/resolve

07-10-2014, 05:25 AM	#2
hfield007 All Star Starter Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,713	I've gotten random crashes ever since patch #3. I only sim out games but I'm always changing screens, happens about once every hour when I play and it turned me into a constant saver.

07-10-2014, 05:26 AM	#3
Markus Heinsohn Developer OOTP Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Germany Posts: 24,805	This will be fixed in the patch which will be released tomorrow. Basically, the problem is RAM usage, if the game runs out of memory it crashes. The limit was 1.7 GB, the patch increases this to 3.3 GB max RAM usage. __________________ Buy Out of the Park Baseball 25 now! Download OOTP Go 25 for iOS Download OOTP Go 25 for Android