Memory Leak - Game stucks

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Memory Leak - Game stucks

Post by topaz » Fri May 19, 2017 8:46 am

Hi,

In the latest versions there seems to be some kind of memory leak that causes the game's stack to get exhausted and it grinds to a halt. What happens is that after many rounds, the graphics animation starts to become slower and slower and slower and at the end, when I finish the round, it never gets out of the battle step. The only solution is to close the app (sometimes only possible via the Windows Task Manager) and restart from a save point.

This is really visible in the extreme maps, where the game dies after 5-6 rounds (I played Extreme Great Britain) - but it exists in all maps if you let it (I like to let the AI build up while I play defense and then actually start playing, so I get to a lot of rounds even in small maps).

This bug did not exist before the battle animations. Please consider fixing it, it is very very very (did I mention very?) very annoying - I need to save practically every round. In Extreme maps it's like, save, save, save, save, kill, start, load, save, save, save, kill, start, load, ... :facepalm

4 the :smt049 of :shield , please fix! :smt023

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Re: Memory Leak - Game stucks

Post by dustin » Fri May 19, 2017 6:03 pm

Hey Topaz,
Thanks for your report. I just updated Lux Alliance to version 1.73 today, and made it clear out memory more often. Try it out and let me know if it improves the situation for you...

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Re: Memory Leak - Game stucks

Post by nathanlo9 » Sat May 20, 2017 12:08 am

Version 1.73 still crashes. Mine crashed after about 10 turns on the Extreme Hex Lords map. I've only been able to complete about 2/3rds of my games since upgrading a couple of months ago. Does the game produce a log that we could provide to you?

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Re: Memory Leak - Game stucks

Post by topaz » Sat May 20, 2017 5:36 pm

Wow, amazing response, thank you dustin!!! :trophy

The new version took longer to display the symptoms and die, but unfortunately it did :(

What happened was that it started getting slower (laggy) and eventually the last battle round never finished.
Then, I tried pressing the humburger button and a bit later, the end.

Here is a screenshot of it crashing and the debug message (unhandled exception during use callback): imgur DOT com /a/WJytB (forum doesn't let me post images of links)

I think the unhandled exception is a different problem from the main one. I realize these kinds of issues are a pain to pin down and debug, sorry for not being able to be more of help :(

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Re: Memory Leak - Game stucks

Post by dustin » Mon May 22, 2017 2:43 pm

THe game does produce a log, it's the log.txt text file, inside the Support folder inside the install folder (assuming you're on Windows). Best to email it to lux@sillysoft.net (screenshots can be sent there too)

If you're on mac, you can use the menubar at the top of the screen, use the Online menu -> Report a Bug menu command to send me your log file directly.

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Re: Memory Leak - Game stucks

Post by topaz » Mon May 22, 2017 4:52 pm

Mail sent, thank you!

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Re: Memory Leak - Game stucks

Post by dustin » Tue May 23, 2017 8:32 pm

We just put out version 1.74, which includes better memory management. Try it out:
https://sillysoft.net/vox/download/

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Re: Memory Leak - Game stucks

Post by nathanlo9 » Thu May 25, 2017 12:29 am

Thanks Dustin. I successfully played one long game on version 1.74 without a crash or any other issue. Mucho better. No need to report a bug this time around and thanks for the tip on how to do that.

All the best

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Re: Memory Leak - Game stucks

Post by Bean » Sun May 28, 2017 10:27 pm

this was the issue i was having too. and 1.74 so far allowed two full games with no crash. Great news!

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