Yitzi's unofficial SMAX patch 2.5d

[Yitzi]

Yitzi's unofficial SMAX patch 2.5d

http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=downloads;sa=view;down=167

Fixed another bug.  This requires the non-.exe files from 2.5.

[Buster's Uncle]

Promo threads bumped and updated...

[thorn]

I decided to play my 1st ever game with Yitzi's patch (2.5d). I'm getting random terran.exe crashes when I play. I checked logfile.txt but it is empty. Is there anything I can do to help figure out what is happening?

[Buster's Uncle]

He always wants savegames to look at...

[thorn]

Thanks, BUncle. I'm attaching the last autosave to this post (I hope!).

[Buster's Uncle]

Can you detail what you were doing when the crash happened?  Any common elements you've noticed preceding crashes?  What version of the game, aside from the Yitzi patch?

[thorn]

I haven't noticed anything in particular that causes the crash. I'll keep trying. I'm using the GoG.com version of Alien Crossfire.

[thorn]

Played on for a while last night with no crashing. I'm wondering if it's something the AI might be doing?
On another note, as I played I really wondered if Beyond Earth could be anywhere as good as AC is. The bar is set very, very high for them.

[Yitzi]

If you can't reproduce it (i.e. something you can do to cause it), there isn't much I can do to determine what's going on.  (Well, unless you want to run it through a debugger which will give more details.)

[thorn]

If you can't reproduce it (i.e. something you can do to cause it), there isn't much I can do to determine what's going on.  (Well, unless you want to run it through a debugger which will give more details.)

Yeah, that's what I thought. I still haven't experienced a crash again so I'm clueless as to what happened. Thanks, Yitzi.

[gwillybj]

I tried a few starts with 2.5d on top of just the XP patch.

Games 1, 2, and 6 crashed when it should have opened the new "goto" window.
Game 3 and 5 crashed when it should have opened the usual base production window upon completion of a unit (game 3) or facility (game 5).
Game 4 crashed because of the north/south pole problem (when a unit at the north or south pole tries to change facing the drawing routine crashes - I've known about it for years and simply reload the turn, delete the offending unit in the scenario editor, then close the editor and continue (I don't care about the score penalty)).

Others are testing on standard maps, so I am trying this on one of my oversized maps. So far, no joy. Will keep trying, though.
I really like the new stuff in #RULES. I'm using Drones:2; Unit Cost:24; Pacifism:10; Ascent:Trant; and Stockpile:2.

[Dio]

I tried a few starts with 2.5d on top of just the XP patch.

Games 1, 2, and 6 crashed when it should have opened the new "goto" window.
Game 3 and 5 crashed when it should have opened the usual base production window upon completion of a unit (game 3) or facility (game 5).
Game 4 crashed because of the north/south pole problem (when a unit at the north or south pole tries to change facing the drawing routine crashes - I've known about it for years and simply reload the turn, delete the offending unit in the scenario editor, then close the editor and continue (I don't care about the score penalty)).

Others are testing on standard maps, so I am trying this on one of my oversized maps. So far, no joy. Will keep trying, though.
I really like the new stuff in #RULES. I'm using Drones:2; Unit Cost:24; Pacifism:10; Ascent:Trant; and Stockpile:2.

What are the dimensions of the oversized maps?

[Buster's Uncle]

He's gonna ask for savegames from right before all the crashes.

[Yitzi]

He's gonna ask for savegames from right before all the crashes.

Indeed.

The new "goto" window is Dio's feature, so if that proves to be difficult to fix I might just disable that feature unless Dio can support it.

The north/south pole problem, since it predates my patch, doesn't seem like it'll be top priority to fix, so unless that's easy it may be a while until it's fixed.

The one with games 3 and 5 sounds like it might be my patch, so with a savegame and instructions to replicate I should be able to fix it.

Also, there are 4 different pacifism settings, for the different areas; setting them all the same is probably not a good idea (as that means that units in your bases would have the same effect as units in enemy territory).

[gwillybj]

What are the dimensions of the oversized maps?

360x180, which gives 64,800 squares. (A 256x256 map gives 65,536.) I've played out dozens of games pre-patch (but with the XP patch), so I know it works. I don't think it has anything to do with map size; just a little glitch. I didn't save the games, but will be sure to do so if it happens again. The file size is about 3MB, but I zipping it cuts that down a lot.

I'll read again the drone rules and adjust my choices accordingly.