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RE: [GD-Windows] resource leak

[Andrew G. <ag...@cl...>]

When you say "the likely culprit" I assume you've tried removing this code
to actually determine if it is this that's causing the problem?

Also "9x machines" span an incredible number of different major and minor
revisions. Are there any real differences between the ones the problems
occur on? Do they use the same videocard?


Andy @ 
Climax Brighton 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ivan-Assen Ivanov [mailto:as...@ha...]
> Sent: 22 January 2003 18:44
> To: gam...@li...
> Subject: [GD-Windows] resource leak
> 
> 
> Hi list,
> 
> our game exhibits a very strange crash on some
> 9x machines. It works once per reboot, the second attempt
> to run it results in a crash which takes down the machine.
> 
> The likely culprit is the DirectShow-based code which
> plays the publisher logo movies right when the game
> starts, even before the main menu.
> 
> It doesn't happen on other 9x machines, and it doesn't
> happen at all on 2000/XP.
> 
> Anyone experienced something like that?
> 
> regards,
> Assen
> 
> 
> 
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RE: [GD-Windows] resource leak

[Ivan-Assen I. <as...@ha...>]

> When you say "the likely culprit" I assume you've tried 
> removing this code to actually determine if it is this that's 
> causing the problem?

Yes, skipping the logo movies lets the game run OK.
And when the crash occurs the screen mode is 640x480,
and the switch is right before the movie playback code.

The make things more difficult, it doesn't happen on our 9x machines,
but only at our publisher's testers' machines, so I have to debug over
chat.

All of problematic machines have GF3s, while we have no GF3s
at the office, our 9x machines have GF2MXs... 
but it's DShow movie playback, for chrissake, probably a GF2 and
a GF3 look the same to the DShow code?