Game crashes every 10 mins. No solutions posted. Please help

[Major_Ayrsonis]

Like many other users on this forum I am having a constant problem with this game. What ever multiplayer game I play I will always crash out after 5 or 10 minutes with the error message:

Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library

Runtime Error!

Program: C:\Program Files\Battle for Wesnoth 1.6.4\wesnoth.exe

This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way.
Please contact the application's support team for more information.

I know this is probably the same problem as suffered by other forum users, but there have been no solutions posted. I am willing to cooperate fully to help you guys find a solution to this problem. I havent always had this problem, it only started recently. It may have been since 1.6.4 or maybe due to some add-ons I installed as i updated all that at the same time. I am running on windows XP. I did have previous versions of the game installed but when this problem started happening i uninstalled them all and re-installed 1.6.4. I have also tried using spyware/virus/registry cleaner programs but to no effect.

Here is the end of a stderr.txt file i saved after reading the instructions on this forum. On this occasion the crash was while I was observing another match.

[Major_Ayrsonis]

heres the end of another stderr file. this time I was playing one of the standard maps, with no add-ons installed.

stderr2.txt

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[bloodyloch]

I'm having this problem as well. It used to happen randomly, but now it seems more frequent.

[Major_Ayrsonis]

So it seems no one can help us. I wish someone would at least have said "sorry mate i dont know what to do here". I used to play this game everyday... sigh.. ah well ill just have to wait for the next release and hope that it works.

[lotsofphil]

I don't know about your error, sorry, but have you tried 1.7.2?

[Max]

that's a very generic error message and could mean anything.

you can use Process Explorer to get a callstack (when this message pops up) and post it here.

[Spiffy]

I've been having the same problem, and it's quite disheartening. Max, if you could explain how to obtain a callstack, I'd be more then willing to obtain one and post it here

[Max]

not a perfect description, but the best i could find:
http://www.technochakra.com/profiling-w ... -explorer/

[Carotene]

I'm running Windows XP SP2 and I have exactly the same problem (same error message as descriped in first post). Sometimes it takes minutes, sometimes hours between crashes, but they are constant. Unfortunately I have no idea how to fix this but I can confirm that this problem started occurring when I changed to 1.6.4. No problems with 1.6.2, never tried 1.6.3. I properly uninstalled old version and deleted old wesnoth folders from /documents and settings and /program files to avoid conflicts, so that is not the problem. Hopefully this gets fixed soon, because it practically makes multiplayer somewhat unplayable since you never know when you crash.

[Max]

I'm running Windows XP SP2 and I have exactly the same problem (same error message as descriped in first post).

i've said it before - each unhandled exception results in this message box. it's unlikely that everyone here has the same problem. posting the callstack as described above could help to find out more about the problem. it's not perfect, because the executable is stripped, but the crash could also occur in one of the libs.

in addition this might help as well...

[CyBiO]

Hi, i had the same problem, very unpleasant! i searched few days (forum, changing resolution, reinstall..)
that did not make a difference.

the solution i found at least, is to uninstal/remove the program of C++ installed on my computer (5 on total on windows XP).

enjoy