"turn" got a trap 5 @ 004126CF 01:000116CF in galciv.exe

Ick...that top logical address appears to be for one of the ship functions...so either a ship got destroyed and the engine attempted to update it, or it wasn't fully created/initialized before the engine attempted to update it...

Isn't SmartException great! I bet you know a lot more about this problem than I would have been
able to give you without it. Think "turn causes crash" without it.

Cheers,
Jack

Got another with the build I just downloaded this morning. I don't know if it is the same problem or not, so here
it is for your judgement.

----------------
OS Version : Windows ME
Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS (IBM)
Application Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
Crash Addr: 0042955F 01:0002855F E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE

Processor Registers (x86):
EAX:00003F80
EBX:83A823D8
ECX:00003F80
EDX:00000001
ESI:83A82314
EDI:0000000F
CS:EIP:0187:0042955F
SS:ESP:018F:00A4F7F4 EBP:00A4F844
DS:018F ES:018F FS:1357 GS:0000
Flags:00010206


Current Application Call Stack:

Addr Frame Logical addr Module Name
---------------------------------------------
0042955F 00A4F844 0001:0002855F E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
004567BA 00A4F89C 0001:000557BA E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00433A4B 00A4F958 0001:00032A4B E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0041CC29 00A4F9BC 0001:0001BC29 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
004408A7 00A4FA1C 0001:0003F8A7 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
004404D4 00A4FA80 0001:0003F4D4 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0044075C 00A4FAEC 0001:0003F75C E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0044FCDA 00A4FB54 0001:0004ECDA E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
004A24D2 00A4FBC4 0001:000A14D2 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
BAABD504 00A4FBF0 0001:0001C504 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\DDRAW.DLL
BFF63613 00A4FC10 0001:00002613 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL
BFF848F7 00A4FC24 0002:0001B8F7 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL

--------------------

Also, I notice that during the last few turns I am suddenly getting "Error. Bad Memory".

Cheers,
Jack

Cari,

You may be on the right track on this one. This time I looked at the last entry in the debug file and
found this message:
----
Debug Message: Cancel Destination for Drengin Empire BattleCruiser 90 because dead.
------
Since I am in a long protraced battle with the Drengins I suspect it lost an attack on one of my ships.

Cheers,
Jack

Cari,

I got it again on the 3/2 build. There is also a strange error message in the debug file, and the content of the
exception file is sufficently different that I am including it here. The debug files last line is:
---
Debug Message: No AutoSave files in current directory.
-------------
The exception file content is:
-----
OS Version : Windows ME
Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS (IBM)
Application Exception code: C0000005 ACCESS_VIOLATION
Crash Addr: 004295AF 01:000285AF E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE

Processor Registers (x86):
EAX:00003F80
EBX:83911DA0
ECX:00003F80
EDX:0493CA80
ESI:83911CC0
EDI:0000000F
CS:EIP:0187:004295AF
SS:ESP:018F:00A4F2E8 EBP:00A4F338
DS:018F ES:018F FS:22D7 GS:0000
Flags:00010202


Current Application Call Stack:

Addr Frame Logical addr Module Name
---------------------------------------------
004295AF 00A4F338 0001:000285AF E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0045844A 00A4F390 0001:0005744A E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0044BA03 00A4F3F0 0001:0004AA03 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00457156 00A4F654 0001:00056156 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00408294 00A4F700 0001:00007294 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00455CA2 00A4FA80 0001:00054CA2 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
00441D90 00A4FAEC 0001:00040D90 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
0045159B 00A4FB54 0001:0005059B E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
004A4292 00A4FBC4 0001:000A3292 E:\DRENGIN.NET\GALCIV\GALCIV.EXE
BAABD504 00A4FBF0 0001:0001C504 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\DDRAW.DLL
BFF63613 00A4FC10 0001:00002613 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL
BFF848F7 00A4FC24 0002:0001B8F7 C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\KERNEL32.DLL
---------

If getting additional exception reports are not useful for this problem let me know.

Cheers,
Jack

They're all starship bugs, and they're all probably because the way that ships were destroyed was kinda weird. I modified that code today and didn't get errors during the normal course of a game, but I did get one strange crash at the very start of the game that I haven't gotten before, in a part of the code where it updates the animations. We'll probably have to test the code more internally, but I think that my code is a bit more robust than the previous version. It probably just needs a bit of tweaking.

Thanks, Cari.

Jack

Cari,
I have a saved game that crashes on reload every time that was started on the 3/2 build. Will I be able to
test your fix by using this saved game on a new level of the code? Or will the new level incompatable with
the saved game?

Cheers,
Jack

umm..Send me the saved game and I'll see if it runs on my build. I'm doing my best to keep the save games compatible with each build.

On its way.

Jack