[r538]Unexpected player Death

[DBThanatos]

Im inclined to think this is a bug, since it is not a decorate problem (and that's pretty much what this wads i was using have).

I was Testing the new sources and some other stuff for AEons of death, when i runned each one separated it didnt seem to give me any problem, then when i was running all together to check if there was sprite names repeated, zdoom started fine, but as soon as I enter any level, the game crashed (and not only to map01)

I didnt include links here to the files because of the size. I dont think you'll want to download 150mb for files that you might not need to find the problem, but you if you want, then i'll upload those as soon as possible.




I know this is not Gzdoom forum or anything...
I tried too with GZdoom and it works a little, except for this:

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The level started, but as you see, as a full HOM (and that is Doom2 Map01)



HOM at the beggining of the level


Those monsters you see, are in the little corridor which leads to the health potions and the Rocket Launcher, and I (player) am in the triangular stairs at the beggining of the level, walls are still there, but you can see thru .


This is the most strange thing, as soon as I enter that corridor, I die! just like that. To take that screenshot I resurrected myself a couple of times (yeah a key bind to "ressurect")

or maybe im finally pushing too far the engine

[Graf Zahl]

Without the file that causes the problem there isn't anything I can do here. This problem seems to be rather specific.

[DBThanatos]

If i PM you the links to download the files, would you checki it? I ask because uploading would be a pain to me, and i guess downloading could be a pain for you (we are talking about 117mb).

But if you tell me so, I'll upload the files right now


Edit:

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After a while of testing i found something more horrible to hear (at least for me), seems like the problem has to do with some limitation of sprites (or entries?) when you run the game, in other words I might be overfeeding the engine (to the puke point).

Some test with this amout of entires:

24420: Standard for ÆoD, all works
31911: all works
33330: All works
33506: floors and some walls are absent (HOM) (in gzdoom, because in Zdoom fails completely)
35219: No walls nor floors (as the screenshots shown) (same as above)

I only reach this conclusion: I did reach the engine limit. Such obcene amount of entries finally did their chaos.

I might be wrong about all this, however, if not, seems like unless the amount of entries is enlarged, there is no fix for this problem.

DBT

[Graf Zahl]

This looks like an internal overflow somewhere. It seems like something still uses a short variable for a value that can exceed it. But I really need the data to look into it.

[DBThanatos]

PM sent with the files that made the engine crash.



DBT

[Project Shadowcat]

Do you think it could be the old "Too much crap coming in in one place" bit? AEons has a lot of weapons and monsters and even sounds. Could it simply all be too much for the engine to handle?

[DBThanatos]

Do you think it could be the old "Too much crap coming in in one place" bit? AEons has a lot of weapons and monsters and even sounds. Could it simply all be too much for the engine to handle?

I only reach this conclusion: I did reach the engine limit. Such obcene amount of entries finally did their chaos.

so... I know, I pushed too far the engine...



DBT

[Enjay]

24420: Standard for ÆoD, all works
31911: all works
33330: All works
33506: floors and some walls are absent (HOM) (in gzdoom, because in Zdoom fails completely)
35219: No walls nor floors (as the screenshots shown) (same as above)

I thought I had a lot of lumps in my WAD @ 15922. Do you not find things slow down simply because of the sheer volume of resources in the WAD? I sometimes notice a slight stutter the first time a sound plays, for example.

[DBThanatos]

I thought I had a lot of lumps in my WAD @ 15922. Do you not find things slow down simply because of the sheer volume of resources in the WAD? I sometimes notice a slight stutter the first time a sound plays, for example.

not really, even in my old crappy pc all worked fine (or I never noticed). Im not sure (in fact i doubt this) but if all the lumps are in a single wad maybe there could be a problem, however, in theory (I think) would be the same reading 4 wads with 5000 entries each or a single wad with 20,000...

DBT

[Graf Zahl]

There's many places in the code which store a texture index in a short variable, sometimes signed sometimes unsigned.
I changed it for the most obvious ones (flats and walls) but I can't guarantee that I can find everything making this assumption that a texture index can never exceed 32768. Consequently I have to file this under 'can't fix'.
Sorry.

[DBThanatos]

Is ok, I mean, I know the game is not supossed to be 32,000 entires long




DBT