Girl Problems...

rolliebollocks · Post by **rolliebollocks** » Mar 28, 2009 13:08

My fiancee installed a new video card yesterday and it is causing my game engine to crash on the destructor, and sometimes at startup.

I need a good general theory as to what would cause a perfectly functioning game to crash after my fiancee installed the video card.

The video card is in fact installed properly, so the problem is elsewhere.

Any ideas?

Let us also assume the behavior is inconsistant.

rb

vdecampo · Post by **vdecampo** » Mar 28, 2009 13:26

What OS is this? I found that when my app worked on one PC but would crash on another, the problem was generally traced to a memory seg-fault that my other system was letting pass.

Look for places where you may be deallocating a buffer that has already been deallocated. Stuff like that.

-Vince

rolliebollocks · Post by **rolliebollocks** » Mar 28, 2009 13:42

Thanks, Vince.

rb

jevans4949 · Post by **jevans4949** » Mar 28, 2009 14:35

Cancel the wedding!

marcov · Post by **marcov** » Mar 28, 2009 16:36

Wrong mode stored somewhere? Try to redo the video config of the app, or zap config files.

Anyway, if your fiancee is the hardware support, let here take care of it :-)

rolliebollocks · Post by **rolliebollocks** » Mar 29, 2009 11:15

She is, I'm way too twitchy to deal with small fragile things.

Anyway, she bought the Witcher like a year ago and tried to play it, and shortly realized we did not have a video card. So over the course of the next year her desire to play this game built and built until she finally bought a video card and an extra gig of RAM.

Sadly, she loaned out the witcher and she still has yet to play it. I still haven't played Civ 4.

rb

TbbW · Post by **TbbW** » Sep 27, 2009 19:43

Wow... you let you'r girl manhandle you'r computer?

rdc · Post by **rdc** » Sep 27, 2009 21:11

Have you compiled with -exx? This might give you some ideas.

vdecampo · Post by **vdecampo** » Sep 27, 2009 21:21

Who dug up this dead thread? It's like over six months old.

TheMG · Post by **TheMG** » Sep 27, 2009 21:51

It was TbbW. However, it was rdc who thought the problem was yet to be solved.

rdc · Post by **rdc** » Sep 27, 2009 23:12

Heh. I didn't check the date. I guess we can all move on. :)

cha0s · Post by **cha0s** » Sep 29, 2009 19:07

Try removing the girlfriend and recompiling.

roook_ph · Post by **roook_ph** » Oct 12, 2009 11:01

Its nice to know what fantasies other than program
ideas occupy our minds.