Closed [IMPORTANT] Possible XP freeze / crash fix.

NOTICE: 10-12-2013 PATCH NO LONGER WORKS WITH THE FIX.

For me the game works without the fixed .dll. Please provide feedback if it doesn't work for you without the fix and try the fix only then.

No placebo either. A user by the name of _Sammy_ fixed the crash problem for a LOT of XP users.

This worked for myself and at least 10 of the 13 people i know use XP on steam. It's HIGHLY reccomended you try this and post feedback so this might be relayed back to the Dev team.

If it does work, be sure to thank _Sammy_ for the work he/she put in

Originating topic: Post here if you are an XP user crashing at Chucklefish logo.

Good luck

(Official request for sticky goes here. Probably not needed after tomorrow's update but you never know)

 

Wow it worked MASSIVE props to that guy seriously thank you.

 

This will probably be assimilated in tomorrow's update. According to bartwe's twitter list, this is the same Sammy that helped bartwe track XP related bugs. How it's possible 20k people aren't jumping on this is beyond me.

Update: Tested some more as some people reported crashing after a while. I have experienced no such thing and i've played for well over an hour just now. No visible or notable bugs. Minor additions though (could be related)
- Nighttime sky sometimes jumps back / forth a small amount (the rotating background)
- Rain causes high amounts of FPS loss, regardless of location.

 

Bump for justice

 

Same here, have had 0 problems, playing in the openGL with steam community turned off

 

Probably not a win XP bug, I see a significant FPS drop when it rains and I'm running windows 7 with a Nvidia Geforce GTX 660.

Also, just wanted to say, you should probably include install instructions in your original post for those who are too lazy to look at the original thread as well as the original link that _Sammy_ posted to the .dll

This definitely needs to be stickied. Donno why the other thread hasn't already.

 

Bump, because this is very important...

Worked like a charm for me: hardly any lag except during rain. And I run a pc made from 2006.

 

Bumping for effectiveness. As stated in my previous post in the other thread, I was able to play for 4-5 hours without a single crash. I DID finally crash after (another) fall death, I imagine that's to be expected of Beta. Still, I'm ecstatic.

 

Where do I put this sdl.dll file? specificially

 

This SDL fix doesn't exactly work for me, at least, not to the extent that it works for some others. All it allows me to do is get past the loading screen (in half a minute flat, no less) and make a new character.
When the character is chosen I get a stacktrace error. The errorlog shows these:

This error more than twenty times.
Error: Graphics exception during render, re-initializing: GraphicsException: Could not set vertex shader parameter for texelOffset (8876086c)
004DA67F (C:/starbound/source/graphics/StarGraphicsCommon.hpp:8)
004D3BD7 (C:/starbound/source/graphics/StarRenderer_direct3d.cpp:275)
009ECB76 (C:/starbound/source/graphics/StarRenderer.hpp19)
0044BF55 (C:/starbound/source/frontend/StarEnvironmentPainter.cpp:49)
00437C85 (C:/starbound/source/frontend/StarWorldPainter.cpp:97)
004037E8 (C:/starbound/source/client/StarClientApplication.cpp:712)
0040A07E (C:/starbound/source/application/StarApplicationBase.cpp:230)
00407A0F (C:/starbound/source/client/main.cpp:49)
004DB571 (c:\SDL-1.2.15/./src/main/win32/SDL_win32_main.c18)

This error about twice.
Info: Initializing SDL Window
Info: Re-created window 1680x994
Warn: Perf: StarApplicationBase::run.innerLoop millis: 250
Error: Graphics exception during render, re-initializing: GraphicsException: Could not set vertex shader parameter for colorMapScale (8876086c)
004DA67F (C:/starbound/source/graphics/StarGraphicsCommon.hpp:8)
004D3C17 (C:/starbound/source/graphics/StarRenderer_direct3d.cpp:275)
009ECB76 (C:/starbound/source/graphics/StarRenderer.hpp19)
0044BF55 (C:/starbound/source/frontend/StarEnvironmentPainter.cpp:49)
00437C85 (C:/starbound/source/frontend/StarWorldPainter.cpp:97)
004037E8 (C:/starbound/source/client/StarClientApplication.cpp:712)
0040A07E (C:/starbound/source/application/StarApplicationBase.cpp:230)
00407A0F (C:/starbound/source/client/main.cpp:49)
004DB571 (c:\SDL-1.2.15/./src/main/win32/SDL_win32_main.c18)

Finishing with this error
Info: Initializing SDL Window
Info: Re-created window 1680x994
Warn: Perf: StarApplicationBase::run.innerLoop millis: 251
Error: Access violation detected at 0x2683ae1a (Read of address 0x7f730058)
Error: Stack Trace...
007D25B0 (C:/starbound/source/core/StarSignalHandler_windows.cpp:16)
2683AE1A
2683B441
004D3BC4 (C:/starbound/source/graphics/StarRenderer_direct3d.cpp03)
009ECB76 (C:/starbound/source/graphics/StarRenderer.hpp19)
0044BF55 (C:/starbound/source/frontend/StarEnvironmentPainter.cpp:49)
00437C85 (C:/starbound/source/frontend/StarWorldPainter.cpp:97)
004037E8 (C:/starbound/source/client/StarClientApplication.cpp:712)
0040A07E (C:/starbound/source/application/StarApplicationBase.cpp:230)
00407A0F (C:/starbound/source/client/main.cpp:49)
004DB571 (c:\SDL-1.2.15/./src/main/win32/SDL_win32_main.c18)

 

Any new behaviour in the game after this patch that isn't the same as the original freeze or crash is a step up, so this helps.

Tried editing OP for clarity but i keep getting a server error. Will try later on.

 

This is awesome! Cheers!

Was starting to get annoyed at racing against the program to the set affinity thing.

Super awesome fun time thanks.

 

How may I find this _Sammy_ and offer my earnest gratitude?

 

Click the link in the OP to the name

 

Hi, It worked for me too.
Thanks a lot Sammy!!!
I'm an XP User too

 

I'm running Windows 7 but experiencing a similar problem. No good :/

 

It worked!
Thank you.

 

Ok it works for me either, on XP 32 bits. but i's laggy a bit. I meet the recommended requirements. Is this patch or the whole game who eats 75% of my CPU?

 

Posted this on the other thread, but no solution.

 

What are your PC specs ?

In other news: been trying to edit the main post unsuccessfully for over a day now. Website seems to have a lot of problems but will keep trying.