Critical crash

[Junna]

A quite critical crash. Not sure what is the cause - it happens randomly in this save after a few months, sometimes faster, sometimes taking a while longer.

http://www.mediafire.com/?cyyqp7wprr93zbp


Required pak:

http://www.mediafire.com/?27c39cn0zh7twy6

Latest sim-exp.

[greenling]

Junna
I Have be look in your Pakset an i find some big fault there you have be Make:
Fault NR 1: you have not be read those link: http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=10769.msg103615#msg103615
Fault NR 2: At the Moment it not possible to carry Pakfiles from Simutrans Standart to Simutrans Exp without translating.
Fault NR 3: Makeobj for Simutrans exp can not packing existing old and new Pakfiles from Simutrans Standart to a new on Pakfile.
Fault NR 4: You have packing all Pakfiles in on Big pakfiles, that make the search after bug not really possible.
Fault NR 5: You have not write up for what for a Simutrans version the Pakfiles be make it.
Sorry your pakset can you throw in the waste.

[Junna]

I have no idea what you are talking about greenling.

Probably the crash is rather related to the game mechanics and not the pak.

[greenling]

Junna
The Crash comes from the Pakfiles they not be make for simutrans exp.
That have Bernd Gabriel in those be posted:
http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=10769.msg103615#msg103615

[Junna]

Junna
The Crash comes from the Pakfiles they not be make for simutrans exp.
That have Bernd Gabriel in those be posted:
http://forum.simutrans.com/index.php?topic=10769.msg103615#msg103615

I don't think you know that. You assume things are related to pak-files all the time which are not, so I am not sure if you have any clear indication of this actually being the case here, nor did this previously occur (I have used old pak's in ex for a long time.) Nor am I certain it is related to what is described in that thread.

The reason for the mergeing into a single pak-file is simply to allow faster loading so that it won't take as long to load (as I compiled the latest britain.ex myself as single-files, which made it load slowly.) Especially when one quite frequently has to restart due to some crash such as this.

I think it's more likely related to the critical bug which James describe in the online server thread, as it seems to behave as it.

This game was created with and crashes as well with Ex. RC 109015 (Can we get an updated RC with some of those latest fixes thrown in?)

[jamespetts]

This was an unusual crash. It was caused by your pakset for some reason defining the speed bonus speeds of everything at 0 km/h, which caused division by zero errors. I have pushed a workaround for this meaning that the speed bonus values will always be at least 1, which should eliminate this issue. Thank you for the report!

[Junna]

This was an unusual crash. It was caused by your pakset for some reason defining the speed bonus speeds of everything at 0 km/h, which caused division by zero errors. I have pushed a workaround for this meaning that the speed bonus values will always be at least 1, which should eliminate this issue. Thank you for the report!

I had happened to change the speedbonus setting under simuconf.tab to 1 by accident during modification. Was this the reason? I changed it, and settings in the goods list no longer appear as 0.

[jamespetts]

When I set the minimum of 1, I can no longer reproduce the crash, which was caused by a division by zero error.