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[Rose]

Try re-downloading?

[WanderingKid]

Try re-downloading?

The Hash came back as correct, but I suppose it can't hurt to try.  I'll do that while I hope for some possible other ideas.

Edit: Well, that seemed to have cured it.  How very weird.  Thanks Japa.  Sorry for the confusion, I'll be over there playing with settings.   

[Zoopy]

I'm having an odd issue with the latest LNP. I had the one before the last revision and that worked fine, but yesterday I downloaded the latest one (released on August 28) and since then I freeze at the main menu whenever DF starts up. I've tried launching DF manually too, but still just freezes and eventually I have to exit due to it not responding.|

Anyone know what might be causing this?

[jecowa]

I'm having an odd issue with the latest LNP. I had the one before the last revision and that worked fine, but yesterday I downloaded the latest one (released on August 28) and since then I freeze at the main menu whenever DF starts up. I've tried launching DF manually too, but still just freezes and eventually I have to exit due to it not responding.|

Anyone know what might be causing this?

There wasn't really much that changed between -r04 and -r06 that could cause it to start crashing.

These two files changed:

Dwarf Fortress 0.43.03/dfhack_PeridexisErrant.init
Dwarf Fortress 0.43.03/onMapLoad_PeridexisErrant.init

You might try replacing them with the versions from -r04 to see if it fixes it.

Another thing you might try is replacing your RemoteFortressReader plugin with the old version. It is located here:

Dwarf Fortress 0.43.03/hack/plugins/RemoteFortressReader.plug.dll

That all that really changed. You're using the Phoebus graphics pack, right?

[nuker22110]

for some reason, i cant launch soundsense from within LNP. When i set it to autolaunch or double click soundsense, a cmd window opens and closes immediately. I have to launch soundsense.bat in order to get it to open. Help?

[Avin]

I've been having a lot of trouble with crashes in this version. Does anyone know if this is something specific to this pack or the version of DF that it's running?

[qoph]

I'm crashing about 5 minutes after starting up the game every time, even if I just sit on the title screen.

[Sheila]

I usually play for a while before crashing but it's sadly become so commonplace that even seasonal saves don't keep me from losing progress 

[jaylla]

I just updated to the newest version r06 and now my graphics don't look right. I've tried switching to other tilesets but the same problem exists. Here's a screenshot of what my game looks like. The whole bottom half of the screen is all messed up. It should be mostly green grass like the top except for a river in the bottom portion. It's not showing any of that. For some reason it's just showing a gray color for a good portion of the screen. http://s21.postimg.org/l4dk57m53/Capture.png

[WanderingKid]

Jaylla, that looks like snow to me, are you straddling biomes temperatures? 

Regarding the crashes: I had some issues too and had to re-download, then it worked.  That included checking the hash and everything coming up aces before I re-downloaded.  I've been using this new version without crashing issues on an 8.1 environment.  You might want to download the current version of Python, though, just in case that's involved.  The other option is to grab vanilla DF from the website, and see if THAT runs.  If you're still having problems, it's not the pack, it's the version and there's issues with it on your machine.

However, without anything to go on regarding the crashes themselves ( rt-click my computer, manage, event viewer, windows logs, check application, system, and forwarded events) it's pretty much impossible to help.  Even then I'm not sure anyone can assist, but at least it's a starting point.

[lethosor]

If you're still having problems, it's not the pack, it's the version and there's issues with it on your machine.

Or there are issues with that version of DF in general. There are sometimes unfixed random crash bugs in DF, and they're usually more common than random crashes related to the (very little) machine-specific stuff DF does.

[WanderingKid]

If you're still having problems, it's not the pack, it's the version and there's issues with it on your machine.

Or there are issues with that version of DF in general. There are sometimes unfixed random crash bugs in DF, and they're usually more common than random crashes related to the (very little) machine-specific stuff DF does.

True, but I'm using the current pack and not seeing issues.  So if the base game has issues, I would start with the assumption that there's a problem with game -> OS, game -> Hardware, or game -> something else installed (Virus scanners come to mind).  But without an error, it's hard as hell to try to help as I'm working off a billion assumptions.

[Pvt. Pirate]

If you're still having problems, it's not the pack, it's the version and there's issues with it on your machine.

Or there are issues with that version of DF in general. There are sometimes unfixed random crash bugs in DF, and they're usually more common than random crashes related to the (very little) machine-specific stuff DF does.

True, but I'm using the current pack and not seeing issues.  So if the base game has issues, I would start with the assumption that there's a problem with game -> OS, game -> Hardware, or game -> something else installed (Virus scanners come to mind).  But without an error, it's hard as hell to try to help as I'm working off a billion assumptions.

even adding the DF folder to the exceptions list for my antivirus didn't stop the random crashes that occured.
although they might nothing more than running out of memory/RAM or the game trying to do too many things at once.

[Fleeting Frames]

Dwarf fortress isn't exactly what comes to mind when I say "memory-leaky", but that hypothesis is easy to disprove with even just task manager.

[lethosor]

"Doing too many things" won't crash DF, unless those things include behavior that triggers crashes. (Yeah, that sounds silly, but what I mean is that parts of DF that are stable, e.g. calculating liquid flows, won't become unstable when calculating lots of things, particularly because DF's simulation is single-threaded.)

Memory is a more likely issue - if you're using DF 0.43.04 or earlier on Windows, it's limited to 2 GB of memory by default, which people have hit with large worlds/forts/etc.. You should check on DF's memory usage and see if it's approaching that limit. (The limit with a LAA-patched version of DF on Windows, or vanilla DF on other platforms, would be around 4 GB, although it could be a bit closer to 3 GB depending on certain things that I fail to remember.)