[BUG]Equipping ring of summoning froze PC

from Elemental Forums

Hi,

 

I just installed LH (really like the changes to make combat more tactical) and was doing my first play-through when my PC froze:

1. I got a blue ring of summoning as reward (+1 to level of summoned creatures)

2. I opted not to equip it when I received it

3. I opened my sovereigns inventory and manually equipped it

4. My PC froze, did not even get a blue screen

 

This PC is 6 months old and has never frozen or had a blue screen before, and I played Fallen Enchantress for 40+ hours without any problems. So the fact that this freeze happened within 1 hour of starting to play LH for the first time would indicate that LH is somehow responsible.

I tried to reproduce after restarting my computer by reloading from latest autosave, but it had saved before I had gotten the ring, and it seems the reward was randomized as I did not get the ring again.

 

Does Stardock have a Jira/Bugzilla or similar bug database where beta testers can submit bugs?

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Reply #1 from Elemental Forums Top

We use this forum for the reporting of bugs (thanks for your report btw).

We use Bugzilla internally, but we don't have the public directly enter tickets.  Instead they report them here and someone goes through, validates, assigns and prioritizes the issue (they also make sure it isnt redundant).

I tried to repro your issue, and equiping the Ring of Calling worked fine on my computer.  So I don't know if it was that or something else that was going on that caused your crash (remember when you are doing your thing the AI players are all out there plotting and doing their things).

If you could provide a save I wcould cheat in a Ring of Calling and get a closer repro of the issue you ran into.

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Ok,

I uploaded four files:

1. a manual save I did (which might be right before/after the crash took place), it might not be sufficient to repro

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9811400/001.EleSav

2. an earlier autosave, if you use that as a basis, and follow the steps in the picture below, you should be good to go

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9811400/PreviousAutoSave.EleSav

3. a picture that shows what I was doing, e.g. fight beggar and get him to join me, then I went to either of the two spots indicated, got rewards, then opened inventory of sovereign, equipped ring of summoning *BAM* PC froze

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9811400/test_case.jpg

4. DxDiag

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9811400/DxDiag.txt

 

The only crashes I had in Fallen Enchantress over 40+ hours, were just crash to windows desktop after extended playtime and multiple save/reload. Also graphics tiles would start to render incorrectly, allowing me to save, quit and restart the game to avoid crash to desktop. Whereas with this Legendary Hero PC freeze, it resulted in total system freeze which is why I wanted to raise the red flag.

 

One other thing, the beggar battle event is new to LH AFAIK. Maybe it somehow triggers a crash?

 

PS! You will notice I play with a modified map size, its slightly bigger than the "Huge" map available in LH, but I used the same map size for at least 20 hours over multiple games in Fallen Enchantress without any problems. And from what I read the LH code build should be better optimized as well?

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

Thanks for the saves, unfortuanatly they still worked for me even after following your steps.  we will keep an eye out for it though.