lost of script without reason???buggy old version?

miguel · Wed 03/12/2003 00:58:24

hello to all,
as my game is getting bigger in size, I've experienced strange behaviours with the engine, such as comon crashes and slow downs,
nothing to worry till last night when I found one of my rooms loosing all his script lines without any error beeing reported by the engine,
I was going to atempt to fix some x,y coordinates when all my 'run script' interactions were empty, making ags crash reporting that it was unnable to edit non existing scripts,
I, then, checked the Editor Script and it was empty,
the problem is not to scipt it again but to know if I'm running a buggy version and beeing afraid it will happen again,
info:
AGS v2.56d August 2003 (build 256.413)
I'm using WindowsMe
amd1800+
512MB
thanks for the help,
miguel

Ishmael · Wed 03/12/2003 18:11:23

Corrupt? Reunzip AGS, and if it don't work, try defragging and scandisk...

miguel · Thu 04/12/2003 00:01:22

I'll try that,
it means that this version has run ok with everybody else then?
thanks tk

Pumaman · Sat 06/12/2003 18:45:42

Quoteas my game is getting bigger in size, I've experienced strange behaviours with the engine, such as comon crashes and slow downs,

If you get a crash, please report it including all error message details - it's the only way these things will get fixed.

QuoteI was going to atempt to fix some x,y coordinates when all my 'run script' interactions were empty, making ags crash reporting that it was unnable to edit non existing scripts,
I, then, checked the Editor Script and it was empty,

That's rather worrying. I haven't had any other reports of this happening. Do you remember when it happened - did you load the room and the script was blank, or did you edit one script interaction and then after closing it none of the others worked?

miguel · Sun 07/12/2003 00:17:58

well, maybe I did jump between rooms but I allways save my changes when scripting, even if I don't do any changes, so I'm sure I loaded that room and tryed to fix it and found that all the script was gone.
I looked at the new ags version thread and noticed that some people are having similar problems.
About the crashes, there is no error message because ags just shuts down,
comon crashes are when atempting to edit areas on a room (walkable,regions,etc...),
I can't say more about it and hope I helped in any way,
miguel

Pumaman · Sun 07/12/2003 00:48:19

My current thinking is what eric mentioned in the other thread - that probably, if you make some sort of mistake in the script (for example having too many { characters) AGS then miscalculates where a function ends and manages to delete the whole script. I haven't managed to work out what the problem is that causes this to happen yet though, so please do report it if it happens again or you have any more information.

miguel · Sun 07/12/2003 15:45:10

I will report anything strange, thanks for everything,
miguel

miguel · Mon 08/12/2003 00:58:33

this time ags crashed with no reason at all (I was lighting a cigarette),
but it did came with a error message:

AGS has encoutered a serious error....
Exception 0xC0000005 at EIP=0x1000909C,
AGSE v2.56.413,

it happened with the same engine but editing a diferent game,
hope it helps,
miguel

Pumaman · Mon 08/12/2003 21:03:29

What were you doing at the time? Which editor pane was open?

miguel · Mon 08/12/2003 23:41:44

Settings pane, I had just exited and saved some script lines,
I then loaded ags again and kept working on it for at least one hour without any problems,
I'll keep posting weird events

Pumaman · Tue 09/12/2003 22:09:37

Strange, I've never had any problems like this. Do continue to report any further issues.