Opened 3 years ago

Closed 3 months ago

#12840 closed defect (fixed)

DIRECTOR: ScummVM debug console does not appear when a Director game crashes

Reported by: Thunderforge Owned by: moralrecordings
Priority: normal Component: Engine: Director
Version: Keywords:
Cc: Game:

Description

When a Director game crashes, the ScummVM debug console does not appear and ScummVM simply quits.

Reproduction Steps

  1. Encounter a fatal error in a Director game (such as the one described in #12837 in which a movie could not be loaded)
  2. Note that ScummVM will quit instead of going to the debug console, ScummVM quits with no further user feedback

Versions

  • ScummVM x64 2021-08-23 (g8812574dc8)
  • macOS 11.5.2

Change History (2)

comment:1 by jamie-marchant, 2 years ago

Try running it through a terminal.

comment:2 by moralrecordings, 3 months ago

Owner: set to moralrecordings
Resolution: → fixed
Status: new → closed

Director engine has a full debugger now. The console will always open for hard errors, but can be triggered for soft errors with --debugflag=lingostrict.

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