#861 Stopped Race is unable to resume

[Heinz-Jürgen Schüssler]

Hello again
In each Race, when pushing the esc-button the game crashes and I see the attached screenshot.
As I said, the configuration is Windos XP Sp3
I hope this now will help to find the bug in the game...

[Heinz-Jürgen Schüssler]

• attachment _--2013-11-19--10-11-18.jpg_ added

[simon wood]

Unfortunately the screenshot doesn't give us much to go on. You could try increasing the level of logging to see if that gives any clues....

Under your 'C:\Users\xxxxx\Documents\speed-dreams-2.settings\config' folder there's a 'logging.xml' which defines the default logging levels. Try changing the 'fatal' to 'info' or 'trace' in this file.

You could also use the '-tl' command line parameter to change the default logging level.

This will produce a log more logging, if you can 'cut and paste' that into a file thay might gives us some more clues.

Obviously you are German, I assume you have German keyboard layout. Have you tried switch keymaps to see if that makes a difference?

[Bertaux Xavier]

better if pushed 'debug' instead 'fatal' we have more info for trace.
Push this in 'Default' and 'Optim' section.

[beaglejoe]

@juergen2
iirc on Windows XP the settings are under:
C:\Documents and Settings\xxxxx\My Documents\speed-dreams-2.settings\config
Try this to create a log file:
Start Menu->Run
Type cmd <Enter>
In the command window:

cd c:\Programme\speed-dreams-2.1.0 <Enter>
bin\speed-dreams-s.exe -tl 5 -ts sdlog.txt <Enter>

This will launch speed-dreams and produce a detailed log file named sdlog.txt in:
c:\Dokumente und Einstellungen\xxxx\Eigene Dateien\speed-dreams-2.settings
Where xxxx is the user name

[beaglejoe]

Replying to beaglejoe:
Sorry the second command is WRONG.
It SHOULD be speed-dreams-2.exe NOT speed-dreams-s.exe

 cd c:\Programme\speed-dreams-2.1.0 <Enter>
 bin\speed-dreams-2.exe -tl 5 -ts sdlog.txt <Enter>

[Heinz-Jürgen Schüssler]

• attachment _sdlog.zip_ added

[Heinz-Jürgen Schüssler]

Replying to mungewell:

Unfortunately the screenshot doesn't give us much to go on. You could try increasing the level of logging to see if that gives any clues....

Under your 'C:\Users\xxxxx\Documents\speed-dreams-2.settings\config' folder there's a 'logging.xml' which defines the default logging levels. Try changing the 'fatal' to 'info' or 'trace' in this file.

You could also use the '-tl' command line parameter to change the default logging level.

This will produce a log more logging, if you can 'cut and paste' that into a file thay might gives us some more clues.

Obviously you are German, I assume you have German keyboard layout. Have you tried switch keymaps to see if that makes a difference?

[Heinz-Jürgen Schüssler]

Hello again!
Many thanks for your answers. I tried to make a log-file. Because it is too big I must make a attached zip-file. I hope this will help to find the bug in the game (in Windows only??)

[simon wood]

Well the last thing logged is...

00:01:11.779 Default  Info    Practice now in RACE_STOP state
00:01:11.779 Default  Info    Stopping race engine.
00:01:11.779 Default  Info    SituationUpdater thread is paused.
00:01:11.781 Default  Trace   Loaded C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/root.PC3/Eigene Dateien/speed-dreams-2.settings/config/graph.xml (03CBB978)
00:01:11.782 Default  Trace   Loaded C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/root.PC3/Eigene Dateien/speed-dreams-2.settings/drivers/human/human.xml (034A4238)
00:01:11.782 Default  Info    Sound paused
00:01:11.782 Default  Info    Current driver (on active split screen) is 'H - J - S'
00:01:11.782 Default  Info    Matching human driver found, setting index to 1.
00:01:11.782 Default  Trace   Loaded D:/Programme/speed-dreams-2.1-beta/data/data/menu/stopracemenu.xml (05523F88)
00:01:11.895 Default  Info    Music changing to: data/music/main.ogg

Which is the same as my Windows7 box.

Since there's a comment about music, did you try disabling the 'Menu Music' (setting under 'Options/Sound/Music' change to 'Disabled')?

I also note that you have it installed on 'D:', but user settings are on 'C:'. Anyone else tried it like this?

[beaglejoe]

Replying to mungewell:

Well the last thing logged is...
{{{
00:01:11.779 Default Info Practice now in RACE_STOP state
00:01:11.779 Default Info Stopping race engine.
00:01:11.779 Default Info SituationUpdater thread is paused.
00:01:11.781 Default Trace Loaded C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/root.PC3/Eigene Dateien/speed-dreams-2.settings/config/graph.xml (03CBB978)
00:01:11.782 Default Trace Loaded C:/Dokumente und Einstellungen/root.PC3/Eigene Dateien/speed-dreams-2.settings/drivers/human/human.xml (034A4238)
00:01:11.782 Default Info Sound paused
00:01:11.782 Default Info Current driver (on active split screen) is 'H - J - S'
00:01:11.782 Default Info Matching human driver found, setting index to 1.
00:01:11.782 Default Trace Loaded D:/Programme/speed-dreams-2.1-beta/data/data/menu/stopracemenu.xml (05523F88)
00:01:11.895 Default Info Music changing to: data/music/main.ogg
}}}

Which is the same as my Windows7 box.

Same here.

Since there's a comment about music, did you try disabling the 'Menu Music' (setting under 'Options/Sound/Music' change to 'Disabled')?

Good idea.

I also note that you have it installed on 'D:', but user settings are on 'C:'. Anyone else tried it like this?

I run this way most of the time. Should not be a problem.

Also, I saw a lot of these in the log:

Default  Warning cgrVtxTable::draw_geometry_array: start invalid value

You might want to try a different track or car to see if it still happens.

[simon wood]

The 2.1beta only has one track.... he's driving 'Loading H - J - S driver (Marisatech-FMC GT4R)'.

[Heinz-Jürgen Schüssler]

Replying to mungewell:

The 2.1beta only has one track.... he's driving 'Loading H - J - S driver (Marisatech-FMC GT4R)'.

Hello again,
I tried all this tips, but nothing helps!!
After first installing "speed-dreams-base-2.1.0-beta" i tried to drive on
"Espie" with a supercar, and what happend: after stopping the race with the esc-button the game was blocked. That means: all tracks and cars are not the problem!!!! Even the sound is not the problem!!
B.t.w.: In all other menues the esc-button works very well...

[beaglejoe]

I have tested this on 32-bit Windows Vista and 64-bit Windows 7
I did not experience the issue. (See #858)
I tried (unsuccessfully)to install XP. Anyone able to test on an XP box?

[Heinz-Jürgen Schüssler]

Replying to beaglejoe:

I have tested this on 32-bit Windows Vista and 64-bit Windows 7
I did not experience the issue. (See #858)
I tried (unsuccessfully)to install XP. Anyone able to test on an XP box?

Oh yes, I installed SD 2.1-beta on an XP box from my cousin an I found the same Problem when pushing the esc-button in a race or practice. This must be a bug in the program!!!!

[beaglejoe]

I was able to get XP SP3 running in a Virtual box. The Escape key worked correctly.
This is a US/English version of XP, so that might be a clue.
I am about out of ideas on this.

Oh yes, I installed SD 2.1-beta on an XP box from my cousin an I found the same Problem when pushing the esc-button in a race or practice. This must be a bug in the program!!!!

@juergen2
Was your cousin's XP also German?
Maybe something specific to German version of Windows?
Did you use the same installer or did you download it again?
Possibly a corrupt download?
Anyone have any other ideas?

[beaglejoe]

Adding this here in case it might help anyone looking at this issue.
From mailing list:

Hello Wolf-Dieter, all
Thanks for the idea. I was still unable to crash SD. I tried all
combinations of sound backends/sound enabled/disabled/music
enabled/disabled.
Cheers,
Joe

Hello,

just some days before I found a bug in TORCS that made it crash pressing the ESC key while races. It happened because the sound was disabled, and there was a call to the uninitialized pointer to the soundInterface.

May be this (sound was disabled) is the reason why one of you gets the error, the other one not.

Cheers

Wolf-Dieter