Kings Cross bug?

Was this a multiplayer session?

And if so is the picture from the host or the client?

I ran the SSG on highest speed till TRTS at 05:39 hour. No error messages were received! Me thinks a memory problem with your computer.

Could you please look in the log file and see if there's more information there? With luck you should find the same message followed by a string of letters and numbers; if so, please email them to me or post them here.

The log file is usually at c:\users\public\public documents\SimSig\SimSig Loader0.log, though there may be more than one file with different numbers.

This looks like you had a network error while connected to the server or with a client connected to you. This has then tickled a bug in the core code.

Mantis 28804 raised to investigate this.

I ran the SSG on highest speed till TRTS at 05:39 hour. No error messages were received! Me thinks a memory problem with your computer.

Thanks, I've copied that log entry across into Mantis.

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BarryM in post 122391 said:

I ran the SSG on highest speed till TRTS at 05:39 hour. No error messages were received! Me thinks a memory problem with your computer.

Ignore it, the poster is just making a random guess which isn't particularity helpful.

The picture that was attached in the opening post, is that from the client or the server? I'm trying to work out why you have missing track in platforms 7, 9, and 10. Or is the photo contrast just really poor?

What I'm trying to work out is, was the track actually missing for you? Or is it just the photo?

What I'm trying to work out is, was the track actually missing for you? Or is it just the photo?

headshot119 in post 122430 said:

What I'm trying to work out is, was the track actually missing for you? Or is it just the photo?

Given that there are no signal aspects, looks like red is going missing somewhere.

headshot119 in post 122390 said:

Was this a multiplayer session?
And if so is the picture from the host or the client?

Single Player, this is after I had turn the server off and ran it as a solo session.

BarryM in post 122391 said:

I ran the SSG on highest speed till TRTS at 05:39 hour. No error messages were received! Me thinks a memory problem with your computer.

It took 4 to 5 tries to restart the PC plus the screen went quite dark after which once I finally got the PC to restart I couldn't get any more error messages.

ajax103 in post 122396 said:

headshot119 in post 122390 said:

Was this a multiplayer session?
And if so is the picture from the host or the client?

Single Player, this is after I had turn the server off and ran it as a solo session.

Can you recall exactly what you did to "turn the server off"? How soon after did the messages start appearing?

ajax103 in post 122396 said:

BarryM in post 122391 said:

I ran the SSG on highest speed till TRTS at 05:39 hour. No error messages were received! Me thinks a memory problem with your computer.

It took 4 to 5 tries to restart the PC plus the screen went quite dark after which once I finally got the PC to restart I couldn't get any more error messages.

This sort of internal error usually doesn't affect a restarted game, though it may have left some traces in it. This is because reloading a saved game isn't restoring the memory of the SimSig process exactly as it was. Rather, it's like starting a new game but with some of the objects in the game set to different values than a new game. Access violations tend to be caused by objects that have got into an inconsistent state because of some complex interaction which didn't get foreseen by Geoff and me. This can almost never happen from loading a saved game because there aren't any complex interactions. Your particular case is even less likely to appear in a saved game because it's a networking issue and the network state isn't saved.

What's more useful, when available, is a save from just before the problem and instructions on how to make the error occur again. But don't worry if you don't have that available.