Narrow down a problem....

posted on April 7th, 2011, 1:39 am

I have an issue with my game where I sometimes get a crash in the middle of a match.
I think it is an AIP problem but i don't know for sure.
Is there any good way out there of narrowing down a bug to find the problem, after all, the error report screen isn't very helpful.

posted on April 7th, 2011, 1:42 am

Well it's likely one that people are already familar .


  You can start by telling us:

- Is it 3.1.5?
- Are you using the Small Blocking Trigger Fix?
- Are you playing the AI or online?
- What map is it?
- What race are you?
- What races are in the game?
- What point in the game does it crash?  i.e. massive battles or just skirmishes?


  These the the ways we narrow it down .

posted on April 7th, 2011, 7:26 am

I had that a lot too in the beginning. But it hasn't done that lately. I almost forgot about the problem.
I don't know why it does that. Sometimes it is at the start of loading a map. Sometimes it's when I click a special or upgrade a ship to veteran. It also did it when I wanted to research something. I had it with borg too, when I wanted to click on a module too configure a sphere or something. But it seems the problem vanished somehow. I don't know what happened or why flops does that.
I think it started disappearing when I got the trigger fix. Maybe that had something to do with it?
Hardly I'd think, but ya never know.

Good luck at nailing down the problem

posted on April 14th, 2011, 4:31 pm

Thanks for the help people.
Your suggestions did help me narrow down the problem. I had a station trying to build something on a hardpoint that didn't exist. Silly me.

posted on April 14th, 2011, 6:14 pm

That is strange...  Hard point errors shouldn't cause a crash as far as I am aware.    Is should just not build, however if that is without a doubt the cause of the crash, then it should be added to the checklist in the guide.

posted on April 14th, 2011, 6:19 pm

That's weapons fire that won't do anything. I've tried building on a non-existing hardpoint before and got a crash when finished.