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IMPORTANT: Hunt for Ares-related recon errors and blittercrashes


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#1 Speeder

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Posted 06 February 2013 - 04:44 PM

It should be no surprise if I say that currently, the multiplayer stability is a mess. We are getting reconnection errors and blittercrashes, out of 40 games we've had for the previous beta, almost 50% ended in a failure. This is why me, Graion and Cesare have been doing tests on the vanilla Yuri's Revenge with Ares using this special package to check, which version has the issues and possibly to eventually track down the issues.
 
So far, we have confirmed the blittercrash appearing in Ares 0.2p2 with vanilla Yuri's Revenge and recon errors in latest Ares 0.3 dev branch with vanilla Yuri's Revenge as well.
 
The blittercrash has a priority. The game closes instantly without a message (or perhaps windows message saying "Yuri's Revenge has stopped working") and EIP = 007BC806 appears in the syringe.log 
 
I'd like others to join this test by playing a 2P game from time to time using this package: :download: Download
 
How does the test look? The package contains CnCNet already set to launch syringe, Ares v02-mix3, Ore Pit (2-8) map for Yuri's Revenge with additional settings. You should test it in the vanilla Yuri's Revenge game, of course, on the map provided with the following rules:
 
- play with another player on CnCNet with 6 Brutal AI players ingame. The alliances don't matter, although we've been playing standard 4v4.
- you have unlimited money, quick buildspeed and power. Spam as many various units as possible
- AI sends more teams as compared to the original
- before you finish off your last AI player (remember that it might sell out when factories are out), break the alliance with your fellow player and do a big scale battle
- our average test plays lasted for about an hour.
 
As we confirm which version has recons and blittecrashes, we'll go "level down" with the branch version to specify where those issues begun. Of course, for every blittercrash please upload your syringe.log file and for every recon error upload the standard set (SYNCx.txt, extcrash & debug.log). This post will be updated with the links to Ares version you are supposed to play with. You'll have to overwrite whatever came from test4.7z and later, with the files I specify here.

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#2 Graion Dilach

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Posted 06 February 2013 - 08:41 PM

You can use SP games for tests, however on my personal experiences, MP games are more likely trigger this blittercrash than SP games.


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#3 fir3w0rx

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Posted 07 February 2013 - 01:59 PM

What's a blittercrash?

#4 Speeder

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Posted 07 February 2013 - 02:11 PM

It's explained in the first post.

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