(04-04-2015, 11:16 PM)willkuer Wrote: Do you use non-default settings?
Is the bug somehow reproducible e.g. every 3-5 minutes (time dependent bug) or every time you change the area (triggered bug) or something like that or is it completely random and you can not identify the source?
Is something special during those first stages that is different to the rest of the game were everything is stable?
Is sound still working after the hang or is it broken as well?
What are your relevant system specs and OS?
Maybe you can find something is you set the log level to verbose...
Non default as far as defaults go
Besides speed hacks (which don't seem to make a difference to the issue) and the GSdx having an upscaled resolution, the rest are proper.
I've only noticed these hangs/crashes happening the most often during certain stages (I don't recall their names right now), and if they've occurred at some point during another stage, i do not remember it.
They are the definition of random. There's nothing to tell me that the emulator will flip its sh*t imminently, and reloading a prior savestate bypasses the problem most of the time. It doesn't appear to be time dependent either, for two reasons. One i mentioned before, the other being that it would have to be some event causing it, which can't be because it wouldn't be random anymore.
Whether there's something special about these stages, i don't know. I am absolutely confident that 2 of these stages include the huge weaponized rollers, which would point towards a link, but another stage (near at the start of the game, it's about attacking an oil refinery) also appears to suffer from the same issues. So far the only link to both of them is the fact that their maps contain lots of dust. They're in desert areas
The sound works partially. It loops a fixed portion of the last few seconds of audio but it won't go further past the point of the hang (I may be remembering wrong and it may be playing audio a few seconds after the hang and repeating that, but i'm not sure if that's useful info. I'll verify the behavior when i can).
Highly doubt my OS or system specs have anything special to do with the issue but here you go. Windows 8.1, Intel i5 750 @2.6, ATI HD6770. Yes the game is in ISO format.
I will try this again with verbose and hope something odd comes up. I don't like being blind to the cause of issues, and i would know, i've had plenty of those and a developer who hasn't been too happy dealing with me. In all fairness he's bad at listening to reproduction instructions
