CTD problem

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 12-04-2006, 00:05

We're not convinced it isn't sprites.

Any idea about what the ROP issue with sprites was exactly? Were they not present? Wrong format? Some other issue?

**Lusted** · 12-04-2006, 00:10

Like i said earlier, i had problems in TE with sprites that related to every 2nd battle fought resulting in a ctd after playing the mod for a while. The solution turned out to be copying the cotents from the descr_model_battle.txt into a clean 1.5 dmb overwriting the original content. There were no problems with the sprites or the way i'd coded them, but it was the fact i was using a modified 1.3 dmb in 1.5 that was cusing the problems, as the way the file is coded changed from 1.3 to 1.5

**Teleklos Archelaou** · 12-04-2006, 00:18

Sorry Lusted. Thanks mate. We'll look into that.

**Lusted** · 12-04-2006, 00:46

I'd also do that with all your files: find clean 1.5 versions of them, copy the code from your modded files into those new ones and then save them, as the coding(when they're saved) seems to have changed for a few 1.5 files.

**Yun Dog** · 12-04-2006, 01:07

Interesting...

Ive never encountered this CTD

playing vanilla 0.74 with not sprite pack

**Geoffrey S** · 12-04-2006, 01:16

I've never encountered this bug in 0.74; only got Roman GUI and TK-421s elephant mod installed.

Didn't patch 1.3 introduce a memory leak that still existed in 1.5? Considering the much more taxing nature of EB that could be part of the problem.

**Lusted** · 12-04-2006, 01:17

I know there was that issue in 1.3, but i know that 1.5 reduced it lots, or fixed it, can't remember which.

**Kull** · 12-04-2006, 08:13

Originally Posted by Lusted

Like i said earlier, i had problems in TE with sprites that related to every 2nd battle fought resulting in a ctd after playing the mod for a while. The solution turned out to be copying the cotents from the descr_model_battle.txt into a clean 1.5 dmb overwriting the original content. There were no problems with the sprites or the way i'd coded them, but it was the fact i was using a modified 1.3 dmb in 1.5 that was cusing the problems, as the way the file is coded changed from 1.3 to 1.5

I made the change you suggested and then ran the same campaign that was generating CTDs in 70% of the "First Battles". After 24 turns and 10 battles, there were exactly zero CTDs, so the fix looks promising. Still looking for others on the team to report similar success. Thanks for sharing, man!