3.0.7 pre-release - test patch

posted on May 27th, 2009, 4:35 pm

Hi,

Today the following minor problem occured to us by playing multiplayer, Romulans vs Borg. The Romulans after building two sensor stations couldn't build any more - the slot in the construction ship for the station just disappeared. Maybe this is a problem of the 3.0.7 pre-version?!

Llap

posted on May 27th, 2009, 8:08 pm

we will try to get 307 with a view balance changes and many bugfixes done as soon as possible. 3.0.7 will patch both 3.0.6 and the 3.0.7PR - the pre release is just for you to test it out if any further OOS should happen

posted on May 29th, 2009, 5:40 pm

I still got the OOS Problem playing with my brother.

It was us 2 against 4 AI Hard. The OOS appeared after some time when there were some more ships fighting... Hope you will fix that

posted on May 29th, 2009, 8:55 pm

we will try to get 307 with a view balance changes and many bugfixes done as soon as possible. 3.0.7 will patch both 3.0.6 and the 3.0.7PR - the pre release is just for you to test it out if any further OOS should happen

3.0.7pr Fixed my OOS with a friend.

posted on May 31st, 2009, 6:56 pm

Just found the 3.0.7PR patch.  *crossing assimilation tubules* Hopefully no more OOS!!

posted on June 1st, 2009, 5:22 am

  I still got oos. I was playing with a human player against ai's and after 15 minutes or so, the game went oos. We continued playing and the message with "out of sync" kept appearing every minute or so. We finally quit. We were playing federation and romulans vs ai's dominion and klingons.

posted on June 1st, 2009, 12:10 pm

updated the test patch, same url again. fixed the crash with the leaving borg player and two rare starting crashes when launching armada

[OvermindDL1]

posted on June 1st, 2009, 1:36 pm

Last edited by OvermindDL1 on June 1st, 2009, 1:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Will give this a try at my next chance, maybe about midnight tonight after work.

EDIT1:  Actually took a moment to see if it would reach the main menu right now.

No, it does not, it is that out of memory error again, in other words the path bug.  Thus, the path bug is still not fixed.  If I change the environment path variable to shorten my path it launches and reaches the main screen, the uxtheme bug seems fixed now, and the path bug is still there. 

EDIT2:  Here is the callstack for the path bug, it seems to be in your dll, not A2...

[tt]main thread ($1210):
5a8053dd +00011 FleetOpsHook.dll System        161 +0 @InitWideStrings
5a9bd1fe +0000e FleetOpsHook.dll JclWideStrings        initialization
5a805269 +0003d FleetOpsHook.dll System        161 +0 InitUnits
5a805353 +000bf FleetOpsHook.dll System        161 +0 @StartLib
7c915dc6 +0010b ntdll.dll                              LdrLoadDll
7c801bb4 +000c3 kernel32.dll                          LoadLibraryExW
7c801d69 +0001a kernel32.dll                          LoadLibraryExA
7c801d9f +00028 kernel32.dll                          LoadLibraryA
7c920e04 +1fc9e ntdll.dll                              LdrInitializeThunk
7c90e455 +00005 ntdll.dll                              KiUserApcDispatcher[/tt]

posted on June 2nd, 2009, 6:35 am

damn How long is your path var?

posted on June 2nd, 2009, 10:23 am

Hold on, let me check, python makes this easy:  python -c "import os;print(len(os.environ['path']))"
1213

So, it is 1213 characters in length.  Sometimes longer depending on the profile I log into.  If I log into my programming profile it might be double that.

posted on June 2nd, 2009, 10:47 am

and the path to the root directory of fleet operations is how long?

posted on June 2nd, 2009, 12:05 pm

The default, but on the R drive, thus:  R:Program FilesActivisionStar Trek Armada II Fleet Operations 3beta

posted on June 2nd, 2009, 2:36 pm

I haven't had any problems... which type of install did you use? 

posted on June 2nd, 2009, 11:37 pm

3.0.6, with the patch on top of it from the first link of this thread.

As stated, if I change my %PATH% to be shorter then the problem does not occur, meaning that A2 is reading in the %PATH% environment variable, but did not check the length first, just bad programming.  I am not sure why it actually needs to read in the %PATH% anyway, but it is...

[RCIX]

posted on June 3rd, 2009, 3:03 am

Last edited by RCIX on June 3rd, 2009, 3:05 am, edited 1 time in total.

Ok i tried the patch and nothing. To be clear, it crashes in ST3D_Device.CreateRenderSurfaces (its actually in the Armada2 EXE).