Crashing, freezing, artifacts, multiplayer etc. (XP x64 suspected)

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The main menu and some other screens(not the game itself, though) some times will suffer from artifacts and other minor graphics glitches. This is the only game I have that experiences this sort of behaviour, and I'm reasonably sure it's not my GPU.

Secondly, the game will freeze up in various loading screens randomly. I'd play one battle great, start loading the next one and there it would freeze. Program becomes unresponsive, has to be closed with the task manager.

Thirdly, in the middle of the game it sometimes crashes to desktop with an error message I forgot to copy. I would say this is more rare than the previously mentioned freeze, but as it arrives after the place where it can freeze, that would be a false statistic.

Finally, I'm yet to join a multiplayer game. Tried dozens of times, and it either hangs or finds nothing for over an hour of waiting, or several times of cancelling after nothing comes up or joins in 10 minutes, as the game has no unresponsive autokick.

I have the latest version of the game, motherboard drivers, GPU drivers and have tried with Impulse both on and off. No other games I have experience this sort of behavious, and I have a lot of games. I'm 96% sure it's not my box that's at fault.

In case you want to know, it's a Q6600, with a 512 MB GeForce 8800GTS, 4 gigs of RAM and it's all running on Windows XP x64 Professional.

HALP!

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

I'm also running a Q6600 with 4 GB RAM and XP x64 but I'm using a ATI Radeon 4890... I get artifacts on the menu screens occassionaly (the video card just cant handle the power of those menus!!) and I seem to crash sometimes when I level up but I never see anything in the crash log.. the last thing I usually see is the game setting the variable for some audio level up thing (wheee!)

Reply #2 from Demigod Forums Top

I am having freezing problems also.

 

This usually happens during a loading or transition screen. The mouse pointer moves,

but the game stalls and I can not alt-tab or ctrl-alt-del away.

 

Grrrr.

 

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Reply #3 from Demigod Forums Top

I have similar system specs with windows xp professional 64 bit, and I am experiencing the random freezing as well. /Bump.

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

Alright, now we're getting somewhere. Xp x64 it might be... If only Morth left some info...

Reply #6 from Demigod Forums Top

Chalk up one more xp64'er having crashes.  It's the only technical problem I've seen so far, though ive just done a few skirmishes to feel the game out, havent tried multiplayer yet.

 

I'm running a core i7, 4gb ram, gtx280.

Reply #7 from Demigod Forums Top

Also, unhandled exception is here:

 

EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at address 0x0075235b
  attempted to read memory at 0x000000c8

Program : C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock Games\Demigod\bin\Demigod.exe
Cmd line arguments :

Callstack:
 Unknown symbol (address 0x0075235b)

Last 100 lines of log...

A full record of the log is stored in the Demigodlog.txt file

warning: Granny: FileReading (c:\Work\forge\main\code\src\libs\granny\granny_file.cpp(769): Converting pointer size from 64 to 32. This is EXTREMELY SLOW!)
warning: Granny: FileReading (c:\Work\forge\main\code\src\libs\granny\granny_file.cpp(769): Converting pointer size from 64 to 32. This is EXTREMELY SLOW!)
warning: Granny: FileReading (c:\Work\forge\main\code\src\libs\granny\granny_file.cpp(769): Converting pointer size from 64 to 32. This is EXTREMELY SLOW!)
info: Minimized false
info: Initiating Hero AI plan for: \000hsedna
info: Initiating Hero AI plan for: \000hqueen
info: Initiating Hero AI plan for: \000hoak
info: Initiating Hero AI plan for: \000hrook
info: ARMY_1_2 Adding upgrade [CDeathPenalty01]
info: Setting audio parameter 'ALIVE' to value '0.000000'
info: Initiating Hero AI plan for: \000hsedna
info: Minimized true
warning: Granny: FileReading (c:\Work\forge\main\code\src\libs\granny\granny_file_info.cpp(152): File has run-time type tag of 0x8000002d, which doesn't match this version of Granny (0x80000026). Automatic conversion will be attempted.)
info: Total Material Count: 10 Total Mesh Count: 10
warning: Granny: FileReading (c:\Work\forge\main\code\src\libs\granny\granny_file.cpp(769): Converting pointer size from 64 to 32. This is EXTREMELY SLOW!)
warning: Granny: FileReading (c:\Work\forge\main\code\src\libs\granny\granny_file.cpp(769): Converting pointer size from 64 to 32. This is EXTREMELY SLOW!)
warning: Granny: FileReading (c:\Work\forge\main\code\src\libs\granny\granny_file.cpp(769): Converting pointer size from 64 to 32. This is EXTREMELY SLOW!)
warning: Granny: FileReading (c:\Work\forge\main\code\src\libs\granny\granny_file.cpp(769): Converting pointer size from 64 to 32. This is EXTREMELY SLOW!)
info: Minimized false
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '2.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '3.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '4.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '5.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '6.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '7.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '8.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '9.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '10.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '11.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '12.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '13.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '14.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '15.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '16.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '17.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '18.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '19.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '20.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'ALIVE' to value '1.000000'
warning: Evaluating LazyVar failed: error evaluating lazy variable: ...ardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\maui\control.lua(34): error evaluating lazy variable: ...ardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\maui\control.lua(36): circular dependency in lazy evaluation for variable [Set lazyvar.ExtendedErrorMessages for extra trace info]
  stack traceback:
  [C]: in function `error'
  ...6)\stardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\lazyvar.lua(21): in function `Left'
  ...ardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\maui\control.lua(36): in function <...ardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\maui\control.lua:36>
  [C]: in function `pcall'
  ...6)\stardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\lazyvar.lua(31): in function `Right'
  ...ardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\maui\control.lua(34): in function <...ardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\maui\control.lua:34>
  [C]: in function `pcall'
  ...6)\stardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\lazyvar.lua(31): in function <...6)\stardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\lazyvar.lua:18>
  Stack trace from definition: [Set lazyvar.ExtendedErrorMessages for extra trace info]
   
  stack traceback:
  [C]: in function `error'
  ...6)\stardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\lazyvar.lua(37): in function `Right'
  ...ardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\maui\control.lua(34): in function <...ardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\maui\control.lua:34>
  [C]: in function `pcall'
  ...6)\stardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\lazyvar.lua(31): in function <...6)\stardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\lazyvar.lua:18>
  Stack trace from definition: [Set lazyvar.ExtendedErrorMessages for extra trace info]
   
  stack traceback:
  [C]: in function `error'
  ...6)\stardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\lazyvar.lua(37): in function <...6)\stardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\lazyvar.lua:18>
warning: Evaluating LazyVar failed: error evaluating lazy variable: ...ardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\maui\control.lua(37): error evaluating lazy variable: ...ardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\maui\control.lua(35): circular dependency in lazy evaluation for variable [Set lazyvar.ExtendedErrorMessages for extra trace info]
  stack traceback:
  [C]: in function `error'
  ...6)\stardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\lazyvar.lua(21): in function `Bottom'
  ...ardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\maui\control.lua(35): in function <...ardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\maui\control.lua:35>
  [C]: in function `pcall'
  ...6)\stardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\lazyvar.lua(31): in function `Top'
  ...ardock games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\maui\control.lua(37): in fun

Reply #12 from Demigod Forums Top

I have almost the same system.

 

q6600, 8800 GT, WINXP 64bit, 4gb ram.

 

and i can report similar issues. seems like a x64 problem.

 

has anyone tried running it in windows xp compatability mode? im going to try that see if performance improves

Reply #13 from Demigod Forums Top

Playing with compatibility mode had no effect, still crashed.

Reply #14 from Demigod Forums Top

Here's my latest crash log:

 

EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION (0xc0000005) at address 0x0075235b
    attempted to read memory at 0x000000c8

Program : C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock Games\Demigod\bin\Demigod.exe
Cmd line arguments :

Callstack:
    Unknown symbol (address 0x0075235b)

Last 100 lines of log...

A full record of the log is stored in the Demigodlog.txt file

info: *UITest: \0002\000   \000(+550 gold)
info: *UITest: \0001\000   \000Regulus killed Lord Erebus (+1000 gold) assisted by The Rook
info: *UITest: \0002\000   \000(+500 gold)
info: Initiating Hero AI plan for: \000hepa01
info: Initiating Hero AI plan for: \000hema01
info: *UITest: \0001\000   \000Sedna killed Unclean Beast (+1000 gold) assisted by The Rook
info: *UITest: \0002\000   \000(+500 gold)
info: Initiating Hero AI plan for: \000hqueen
info: Setting audio parameter 'WARSCORE' to value '3.000000'
debug: Loading module '\000/units/heroes/hgsa01/hgsa01mine02_script.lua\000'
info: Initiating Hero AI plan for: \000hvampire
info: *UITest: \0001\000   \000Regulus killed Torch Bearer (+1100 gold) assisted by The Rook
info: *UITest: \0002\000   \000(+550 gold)
debug: Loading module '\000/units/minions/siegearcher/siegearcher02_script.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/units/heroes/hrook/hrooktoweroflight04_script.lua\000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'WARSCORE' to value '6.000000'
info: Initiating Hero AI plan for: \000hepa01
debug: Loading module '\000/units/heroes/hgsa01/hgsa01mine03_script.lua\000'
info: Initiating Hero AI plan for: \000hema01
info: *UITest: \0001\000   \000Regulus killed Unclean Beast (+1000 gold) assisted by
info: *UITest: \0002\000   \000SeekerDarksteel (+500 gold)
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '10.000000'
debug: Loading module '\000/units/heroes/hoak/hoakraisedeadward04_script.lua\000'
info: Initiating Hero AI plan for: \000hvampire
info: Setting audio parameter 'WARSCORE' to value '7.000000'
info: *UITest: \0001\000   \000Forces of Darkness killed SeekerDarksteel assisted by Torch Bearer
info: *UITest: \0002\000   \000(+750 gold)
info: Setting audio parameter 'ALIVE' to value '0.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '2.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '3.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '4.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '5.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '6.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '7.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '8.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '9.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '10.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'ALIVE' to value '1.000000'
info: Initiating Hero AI plan for: \000hepa01
info: *UITest: \0001\000   \000Forces of Darkness killed The Rook assisted by Lord Erebus, Torch
info: *UITest: \0002\000   \000Bearer, Queen of Thorns (+750 gold)
info: *UITest: \0001\000   \000Torch Bearer killed Sedna (+1400 gold) assisted by Lord Erebus,
info: *UITest: \0002\000   \000Queen of Thorns, Unclean Beast (+700 gold)
info: Initiating Hero AI plan for: \000hrook
info: Initiating Hero AI plan for: \000hsedna
info: *UITest: \0001\000   \000Unclean Beast killed SeekerDarksteel (+1500 gold) assisted by Lord
info: *UITest: \0002\000   \000Erebus (+750 gold)
info: Setting audio parameter 'ALIVE' to value '0.000000'
debug: Loading module '\000/units/heroes/hgsa01/hgsa01mine04_script.lua\000'
info: *UITest: \0001\000   \000Regulus killed Lord Erebus (+1200 gold) assisted by The Rook,
info: *UITest: \0002\000   \000SeekerDarksteel (+600 gold)
debug: Loading module '\000/units/strongholds/stronghold03/stronghold03_script.lua\000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'WARSCORE' to value '8.000000'
info: *UITest: \0001\000   \000Regulus killed Unclean Beast (+1200 gold) assisted by The Rook,
info: *UITest: \0002\000   \000SeekerDarksteel (+600 gold)
info: *DEBUG: Applying buff - StrengthenStronghold03
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '2.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '3.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '4.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '5.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '6.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '7.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '8.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '9.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '10.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'ALIVE' to value '1.000000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '11.000000'
info: ARMY_1_4 Adding upgrade [CTroopNumber05]
info: ARMY_1_4 Adding upgrade [CTroopNumber04]
info: Initiating Hero AI plan for: \000hvampire
debug: Loading module '\000/projectiles/hrookboulder01/hrookboulder01_script.lua\000'
info: Initiating Hero AI plan for: \000hepa01
info: Setting audio parameter 'CITADEL_TENSION' to value '1.000000'
info: KILL VO : [KillHero_hema01]
info: *UITest: \0001\000   \000SeekerDarksteel killed Torch Bearer (+1500 gold) assisted by The
info: *UITest: \0002\000   \000Rook, Sedna (+750 gold)
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '12.000000'
debug: Loading module '\000/units/misc/frozentorchbearer01/frozentorchbearer01_script.lua\000'
debug: Loading module '\000/projectiles/frostdeatheffect01/frostdeatheffect01_script.lua\000'
info: Setting audio parameter 'WARSCORE' to value '9.000000'
info: KILL VO : [KillHero_hvampire]
info: *UITest: \0001\000   \000SeekerDarksteel killed Lord Erebus (+1200 gold) assisted by
info: *UITest: \0002\000   \000Regulus, The Rook (+600 gold)
info: *UITest: \0001\000   \000Forces of Light killed Unclean Beast assisted by Regulus,
info: *UITest: \0002\000   \000SeekerDarksteel (+600 gold)
info: Setting audio parameter 'LEVEL' to value '13.000000'
info: *UITest: \0001\000   \000Lord Erebus killed The Rook (+1700 gold) assisted by Queen of
info: *UITest: \0002\000   \000Thorns (+850 gold)
info: *DEBUG: Stronghold killed
info: OnVictory!
info: OnVictory!
info: OnVictory!
info: OnVictory!
info: OnVictory!
debug: Loading module '\000/lua/simutils.lua\000'
info: MUSIC : Activating cue [Win_Cue]
info: Setting audio parameter 'CITADEL_TENSION' to value '0.000000'
info: *UITest: \0001\000   \000Regulus killed Queen of Thorns (+1500 gold) assisted by
info: *UITest: \0002\000   \000SeekerDarksteel (+750 gold)
warning: Error running lua script: ...ck games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\ui\game\flagview.lua(229): Game object has been destroyed
         stack traceback:
             [C]: in function `Show'
             ...ck games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\ui\game\flagview.lua(229): in function `UpdateFlagInfo'
             ...ck games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\ui\game\flagview.lua(112): in function <...ck games\demigod\dgdata.zip\lua\ui\game\flagview.lua:24>

 

 

 

Reply #15 from Demigod Forums Top

QX6850, 8800GT, 4GB DDR2-800, ASUS P5E, Vista64 Business Ed.

No crashes yet (wow). I dont think its x64 (maybe winxp64?)

I assume you've done the whole update bios, update motherboard drivers, update sound/vid card drivers, antispyware, antivirus thing?

Reply #16 from Demigod Forums Top

I has, I have to keep my PC tip-top.

Reply #17 from Demigod Forums Top

Bump. Some kind of official responce or recognition would be nice. We clearly have an issue here.

Reply #18 from Stardock Forums Top

same problem here, x64 bit :p same PC specs. I can trouble shoot just about any damn thing, and this here has left me grounded. Crash is random at best. Sometimes I finish an entire game. I have no problems with multiplayer, I just crash at random points all the time.

 

Really wouldnt mind some fking feedback from the hamsters in tech depo... a fair few hundred people have this issue. Warcry forum is screaming about it, as is VN and a few others.

Reply #19 from Demigod Forums Top

Bump. I'm still experiencing this problem, and I simply can't finish a single game because of it. I'm a 64bitxp user as well with similar specs.

Reply #20 from Demigod Forums Top

WinXP64 user on a Q9300, ATI 4870, 4GB of RAM, ASUS P5Q PRO mobo

 

I get random hangs just before loading screens when connecting to Pantheon games--essentially, just when it is about to transfer over to the loading screen, Demigod stops dead.  Network activity dies, it stops using processing power, etc.  Unresponsive.  I run it windowed and if I move other windows over it and then close them, the screen doesn't repaint Demigod.  Happens about 1/3 of the time that I start a Pantheon game; I probably have a shit ton of dropped games on my account thanks to that =/

Reply #21 from Demigod Forums Top

I didn't realize so many people actually used XP 64. It was never meant for home use.

Reply #22 from Demigod Forums Top

I am not 100% certain Windows XP 64 bit edition is supported by the game.

I will check.

Reply #23 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting Tridus, reply 21
I didn't realize so many people actually used XP 64. It was never meant for home use.

It was popular among high end users before vista came out. It's not that uncommon an OS and it'd be unheard of if gpg decided not to support it.

Reply #24 from Demigod Forums Top

Aye; there are quite a few gamers who (rightly) avoided Vista in its initial launch period thanks to significant performance loss in games. . . but who wanted access to 64-bit processors and 3.5+ GB of RAM.  I'm such a person; I'm holding off until Win7, which in Beta roughly matches my FPS in XP64.  Of course, the full release will be more bloated, which will slow things down to an extent, so I may keep an XP64 partition for the absolute newest games until DirectX10 becomes the standard.

edit: grammar

Reply #25 from Demigod Forums Top

 

Not to burst anyone's bubble but....

 

Here are my system specs:

Intel E8500

4GB RAM

Asus P5Q

Asus EAH4870 1GB DK version

Windows XP Pro x64-bit edition

 

I've been running Windows XP x64 as my gaming-OS for several years now, and found it to have been the most stable OS that I've ever gamed on.

 

I can say, I have had not one single crash with Demigod/XP x64..... 

I do however use the above-noted system ONLY for gaming.  I never even browse the internet from my gaming-rig(s).  No other third-party software other than TeamSpeak is ever installed on any of my gaming rigs.  The OS is always patched with every single windows patch, regardless of if I think I need it or not.

 

I wish I could give you more information.  Unfortunately all I can say is that I've been running Windows XP x64 as my gaming OS for years, and have never really had an issue.....certainly never with Demigod.

 

the Monk