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Bugs in stable version (2.5) / Re: June 29th build bugs

« on: July 24, 2013, 03:28:43 am »

We would need more information to properly find the gap (we have to manually build a shell around the aircraft to block weapon fire). Which map, what were the locations of your soldiers and the locations of the aliens? Otherwise it's like finding a needle in a haystack.

I just ran across a similar issue:



My soldier (highlighted by the green selector box) was standing clearly inside the dropship, and was shot by the alien in the far top-left corner. There should be no way my soldier could get hit from the visual look of the dropship, but I guess the magic bulletproof box doesn't extend as far as the image of the ship does.

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Bugs in stable version (2.5) / Mem_CheckSentinels: bad memory footer sentinel (buffer overflow)

« on: May 24, 2013, 04:32:07 am »

2013-May-21 win32

I tried to auto-mission a landed UFO (Harvester), and the game crashed to desktop, with the UFOAI console up and flashing this in red:

Mem_CheckSentinels: bad memory footer sentinel [buffer overflow]
pool: Client: Local (per game)
alloc: src/client/cgame/campaign/cp_messages.cpp:#66
free: src/client/cgame/campaign/cp_campaign.cpp:#1264

So I clicked the "quit" button and this whole list of additional errors flew past, and the console didn't quit as one would expect it to when clicking "quit".

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Cmd_RemoveCommand: cp_results not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: cp_getdescription not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: cp_getcampaigns not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: cp_start not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: debug_listalienbase not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: debug_alienbasevisible not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: aircraft_namechange not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: aircraft_start not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: mn_select_aircraft not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: aircraft_return not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: aircraft_update_list not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: debug_listaircraftsample not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: debug_listaircraft not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: debug_listaircraftidx not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: debug_listinstallation not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: debug_finishinstallation not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: debug_interestlist not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: debug_interestset not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: nation_stats_click not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: nation_update not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: nation_select not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: debug_listcities not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: debug_listnations not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: cp_missionauto_check not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: cp_mission_autogo not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: debug_missionsetmap not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: debug_missionadd not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: debug_missiondeleteall not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: debug_missiondelete not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: debug_missionlist not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: ui_trans_caplist not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: ui_trans_fill not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: ui_trans_add not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: trans_list not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: trans_init not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: trans_close not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: trans_start not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: trans_emptyairstorage not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: trans_selectbase not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: debug_listtransfers not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: ui_transferufo not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: ui_selecttransferyard not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: ui_fill_ufotransfer not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: ui_destroystoredufo not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: ui_selectstoredufo not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: cp_uforecovery_init not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: cp_uforecovery_sell_init not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: cp_uforecovery_store_init not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: cp_uforecovery_nationlist_click not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: cp_uforecovery_store_start not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: cp_uforecovery_sell_start not added
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Cmd_RemoveCommand: debug_liststoredufos not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: debug_storeufo not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: debug_removestoredufo not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: employee_update_count not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: employee_init not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: employee_delete not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: employee_hire not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: employee_select not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: employee_changename not added
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Cmd_RemoveCommand: update_base_radar_coverage not added
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Cmd_RemoveCommand: airequip_updatemenu not added
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Cmd_RemoveCommand: building_ufopedia not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: check_building_status not added
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Cmd_RemoveCommand: reset_building_current not added
Cvar 'mn_base_max' wasn't found
Cvar 'mn_base_cost' wasn't found
Cvar 'mn_base_title' wasn't found
Cvar 'mn_base_count' wasn't found
Cmd_RemoveCommand: add_battery not added
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Cmd_RemoveCommand: debug_teamlist not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: hosp_empl_init not added
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Cvar 'mn_installation_count' wasn't found
Cvar 'mn_installation_title' wasn't found
Cvar 'mn_installation_max' wasn't found
Cvar 'mn_installation_type' wasn't found
Cmd_RemoveCommand: prod_init not added
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Cmd_RemoveCommand: mn_upcontent not added
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Cmd_RemoveCommand: ufopedia not added
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Cmd_RemoveCommand: ufopedia_openmail not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: ufopedia_scrollmail not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: techtree_click not added
Cmd_RemoveCommand: mn_upgotoresearchedlink not added
Cvar 'mn_uppretext' wasn't found
Cvar 'mn_uppreavailable' wasn't found
Cvar 'mn_uprequirement' wasn't found
Cvar 'mn_upmetadata' wasn't foundClicking quit again cleared the console this time and left just this in the display:

There are still 1 opened files

Mem_CheckSentinels: bad memory footer sentinel [buffer overflow]
pool: Client: Local (per game)
alloc: src/client/cgame/campaign/cp_messages.cpp:#66
free: src/common/mem.cpp:#647

After that, repeated "quit" just gets another copy of

There are still 1 opened files

added to the console, but it won't go away (had to terminate from task manager).

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Bugs in stable version (2.5) / Re: Load saved game very slow

« on: May 22, 2013, 01:58:24 am »

Can't right-click the checkbox to remove characters from the employee pools? I don't know if it will help, but trying shouldn't hurt.

It does affect load time.

I took my worst-case end-game savefile and purged all the not-hired employees (I lost count, but there were several hundred of them, maybe 300-500 or so?, including soldiers, pilots, workers, scientists). I left the 151 active/hired employees as-is.

Before, load time with all employees (both active and inactive):

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2013/05/21 19:30:45 ...Running subsystem 'employee'
2013/05/21 19:31:21 ...subsystem 'employee' - loaded.
= 36 seconds to load "employee" subsystem
After with inactive employees deleted:

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2013/05/21 19:50:47 ...Running subsystem 'employee'
2013/05/21 19:50:55 ...subsystem 'employee' - loaded.
= 8 seconds to load "employee" subsystemThe "hurt", of course, is that I no longer have those employee candidates in the pool to choose from if I want to hire more employees.

Load time seems directly related to number of employees: I eliminated about 75% of my labour pool and reduced load time by about the same amount.

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Bugs in stable version (2.5) / Re: Crash to desktop on startup

« on: May 18, 2013, 02:35:35 pm »

I'm not sure what the problem was, but I tried deleting the whole installation folder and re-installing from the full installer I had already tried above, and it seems to work fine now. Sorry for the false alarm.

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Bugs in stable version (2.5) / Re: Crash to desktop on startup

« on: May 13, 2013, 08:26:00 pm »

I had been trying binaries-only.

Today I downloaded the binaries-only, and the full installer, and both had the same result as before. Crash to desktop, nothing useful in ufoconsole.log

Any further suggestions?

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Bugs in stable version (2.5) / Re: Crash to desktop on startup

« on: May 07, 2013, 09:10:06 pm »

I downloaded today's binaries and the problem persists, so it wasn't just a compilation glitch.

Yes, ufoconsole.log just contains two lines, always the same two lines, but the timestamp at the start of each line is changed on each launch, so it must be clearing the file and rewriting the log on each launch.

The path noted in the log (C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\UFOAI/2.5-dev/base/keys.cfg) is correct (mixed slashes aside), but that directory does not contain keys.cfg

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Bugs in stable version (2.5) / Re: Crash to desktop on startup

« on: May 07, 2013, 12:08:21 am »

I quoted it verbatim above. It doesn't contain anything useful, just what I quoted above. But attached as requested.

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Bugs in stable version (2.5) / Crash to desktop on startup

« on: May 06, 2013, 09:11:36 pm »

I just downloaded the latest (2013-May-06) Windows binaries, and the game now crashes on startup. It gets to about 25% of the splash loading screen progress bar, and then crashes to desktop. I reverted to 2013-Apr-17 binaries and confirmed it works fine, also re-downloaded the current binaries just to make sure.

As it crashes to desktop the console is very briefly (0.2s or thereabouts) visible, and I managed to grab a screenshot (attached), but it doesn't show much useful, the last line is "--- parse scripts ---- 57 script files"

2013/05/06 15:05:10 FS_RemoveFile: remove C:\Users\User\AppData\Roaming\UFOAI/2.5-dev/base/keys.cfg
2013/05/06 15:05:11 There are still 1 opened files

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Bugs in stable version (2.5) / Re: Load saved game very slow

« on: April 15, 2013, 05:02:11 pm »

Looking at ufoconsole.log I see where the delay is occurring:
The whole load process should take about one second, except for this:

2013/04/15 10:41:05 ...Running subsystem 'employee'
2013/04/15 10:41:29 ...subsystem 'employee' - loaded.

24 seconds to load "subsystem 'employee'".


Full load log for reference:

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2013/04/15 10:41:04 Loading savegame xml (size 69190)
2013/04/15 10:41:04 Loading savegame
...version: 4
...game version: 2.5-dev
...xml Size: 810624, compressed? y
2013/04/15 10:41:04 Shutdown gametype 'Campaign mode'
2013/04/15 10:41:04 Change gametype to 'Campaign mode'
2013/04/15 10:41:04
--- save subsystem initialization --
2013/04/15 10:41:04 added campaign subsystem
2013/04/15 10:41:04 added research subsystem
2013/04/15 10:41:04 added base subsystem
2013/04/15 10:41:04 added hospital subsystem
2013/04/15 10:41:04 added market subsystem
2013/04/15 10:41:04 added employee subsystem
2013/04/15 10:41:04 added aliencont subsystem
2013/04/15 10:41:04 added aircraft subsystem
2013/04/15 10:41:04 added alien base subsystem
2013/04/15 10:41:04 added interest subsystem
2013/04/15 10:41:04 added installation subsystem
2013/04/15 10:41:04 added mission subsystem
2013/04/15 10:41:04 added ufostores subsystem
2013/04/15 10:41:04 added production subsystem
2013/04/15 10:41:04 added messagesystem subsystem
2013/04/15 10:41:04 added stats subsystem
2013/04/15 10:41:04 added nations subsystem
2013/04/15 10:41:04 added transfer subsystem
2013/04/15 10:41:04 added xvirate subsystem
2013/04/15 10:41:04 added messageoptions subsystem
2013/04/15 10:41:04 added triggerevents subsystem
2013/04/15 10:41:04 Campaign data loaded - size 663400 bytes
2013/04/15 10:41:04 ...techs: 217
2013/04/15 10:41:04 ...buildings: 16
2013/04/15 10:41:04 ...ranks: 16
2013/04/15 10:41:04 ...nations: 8
2013/04/15 10:41:04 ...cities: 456
2013/04/15 10:41:04
2013/04/15 10:41:04 Load 'slot3' 21 subsystems
2013/04/15 10:41:04 ...Running subsystem 'campaign'
2013/04/15 10:41:05 ...subsystem 'campaign' - loaded.
2013/04/15 10:41:05 ...Running subsystem 'research'
2013/04/15 10:41:05 ...subsystem 'research' - loaded.
2013/04/15 10:41:05 ...Running subsystem 'base'
2013/04/15 10:41:05 ...subsystem 'base' - loaded.
2013/04/15 10:41:05 ...Running subsystem 'hospital'
2013/04/15 10:41:05 ...subsystem 'hospital' - loaded.
2013/04/15 10:41:05 ...Running subsystem 'market'
2013/04/15 10:41:05 ...subsystem 'market' - loaded.
2013/04/15 10:41:05 ...Running subsystem 'employee'
2013/04/15 10:41:29 ...subsystem 'employee' - loaded.
2013/04/15 10:41:29 ...Running subsystem 'aliencont'
2013/04/15 10:41:29 ...subsystem 'aliencont' - loaded.
2013/04/15 10:41:29 ...Running subsystem 'aircraft'
2013/04/15 10:41:29 ...subsystem 'aircraft' - loaded.
2013/04/15 10:41:29 ...Running subsystem 'alien base'
2013/04/15 10:41:29 ...subsystem 'alien base' - loaded.
2013/04/15 10:41:29 ...Running subsystem 'interest'
2013/04/15 10:41:29 ...subsystem 'interest' - loaded.
2013/04/15 10:41:29 ...Running subsystem 'installation'
2013/04/15 10:41:29 ...subsystem 'installation' - loaded.
2013/04/15 10:41:29 ...Running subsystem 'mission'
2013/04/15 10:41:29 ...subsystem 'mission' - loaded.
2013/04/15 10:41:29 ...Running subsystem 'ufostores'
2013/04/15 10:41:29 ...subsystem 'ufostores' - loaded.
2013/04/15 10:41:29 ...Running subsystem 'production'
2013/04/15 10:41:29 ...subsystem 'production' - loaded.
2013/04/15 10:41:29 ...Running subsystem 'messagesystem'
2013/04/15 10:41:30 ...subsystem 'messagesystem' - loaded.
2013/04/15 10:41:30 ...Running subsystem 'stats'
2013/04/15 10:41:30 ...subsystem 'stats' - loaded.
2013/04/15 10:41:30 ...Running subsystem 'nations'
2013/04/15 10:41:30 ...subsystem 'nations' - loaded.
2013/04/15 10:41:30 ...Running subsystem 'transfer'
2013/04/15 10:41:30 ...subsystem 'transfer' - loaded.
2013/04/15 10:41:30 ...Running subsystem 'xvirate'
2013/04/15 10:41:30 ...subsystem 'xvirate' - loaded.
2013/04/15 10:41:30 ...Running subsystem 'messageoptions'
2013/04/15 10:41:30 ...subsystem 'messageoptions' - loaded.
2013/04/15 10:41:30 ...Running subsystem 'triggerevents'
2013/04/15 10:41:30 ...subsystem 'triggerevents' - loaded.
2013/04/15 10:41:30 File 'slot3' successfully loaded from compressed xml savegame.

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Bugs in stable version (2.5) / Re: Load saved game very slow

« on: March 27, 2013, 06:48:40 pm »

My laptop (which machine is the one that runs UFO: AI) is a 2.00 Gb RAM machine. That certainly might explain why my load times are longer than SS's.

But are they? What are you load times like? Despite my high-end machine I'm getting 20-40 second load times.

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Bugs in stable version (2.5) / Re: Load saved game very slow

« on: March 27, 2013, 01:41:41 pm »

How many RAM have affected users?

I have 64GB in my machine, so that's extremely unlikely.

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Bugs in stable version (2.5) / Re: Load saved game very slow

« on: March 22, 2013, 04:30:07 pm »

I just tried

UFO: Alien Invasion 2.5-dev IA-32 Mar 22 2013 Win32 DEBUG

from both the EXE-only and full installer nightly builds, and load times are unchanged. Loading a relatively young game (08-May-2084) takes 9.5 seconds; loading a late game (20-May-2085) takes 31.5 seconds.

slot4.savx = May-2084
slot7.savx = May-2085

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Bugs in stable version (2.5) / Re: Load saved game very slow

« on: March 21, 2013, 04:29:50 am »

I've entered this into the tracker as issue #4936.

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Bugs in stable version (2.5) / Re: Load saved game very slow

« on: March 19, 2013, 06:35:06 pm »

Is the nightly compiled in release mode? I so this might be a release-only bug, like the the slow air combat one

Not sure if that question was directed at me. The version I'm using shows:

UFO: Alien Invasion 2.5-dev IA-32 Mar 18 2013 Win32 DEBUG

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Bugs in stable version (2.5) / Re: Load saved game very slow

« on: March 18, 2013, 06:55:31 pm »

Presumably those for whom the load time are working fine are all self-compiled, and those of us who are simply play-testing with the precompiled binaries have the slow load times?

If that's the case, can one of those who have no problem loading try installing a copy of the latest installer and see if slow load times are reproducible that way?