Opened 19 years ago

Closed 18 years ago

#2192 closed defect (worksforme)

PSP: Crash at very beginning of Game (The Dig)

Reported by: SF/macmoll Owned by: joostp
Priority: normal Component: Engine: SCUMM
Version: Keywords:
Cc: Game: The Dig

Description

Using latest beta5 and playing _german_ version of the "The Dig" using a PSP 1.0, I have a blue-screen crash at the beginning of the game where "Commander Low" and two other crew members first go down into the asteriod and detect the alien metal plates.

I get this info:

Execption: Bus error (data) EPC: 08B9987C Cause: 1C Status: 20008603 BadVAddr 0000000

Thanks for a fix.

Ticket imported from: #1287976. Ticket imported from: bugs/2192.

Attachments (1)

dig.s01 (10.8 KB ) - added by SF/macmoll 19 years ago.
Save game before crash location

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Change History (20)

comment:1 by SF/macmoll, 19 years ago

Summary: Blue-Screen Crash at very beginning of Game...PSP: Blue-Screen Crash at very beginning of Game...

comment:2 by joostp, 19 years ago

Owner: set to joostp
Summary: PSP: Blue-Screen Crash at very beginning of Game...PSP: Crash at very beginning of Game (The Dig)

comment:3 by joostp, 19 years ago

I haven't played The Dig much, please provide some more details on reproducing and possibly a savegame.

Also, have you verified it doesn't happen with a daily snapshot build on windows / your OS of choice?

by SF/macmoll, 19 years ago

Attachment: dig.s01 added

Save game before crash location

comment:4 by SF/macmoll, 19 years ago

Load the provided savegame and continue with gameplay by clicking on the "stones" and the "metal plate" to trigger the next dialog sequence. Game crashes at end of this sequence with indicated error.

__BUT__: It's not 100% reproduceable (sorry!). I tried this multiple times, and crash happens only sometimes - perhaps when some sound "artifacts" are audible.

comment:5 by SF/macmoll, 19 years ago

Sorry, never tried ScummVM on native windows to verify this crash. Should I?

comment:6 by joostp, 19 years ago

Please do, using the exact same set of datafiles.

comment:7 by SF/macmoll, 19 years ago

Sorry, but I cannot load my PSP savegame from PSP beta5 into the windows binary of ScummVM version 0.7.1...

But the crash in the PSP version is still there: Using the provided savegame, just try to examine the "metal plate" and al things around again and again (mutiple times). In this situation, I get this blue-screen crash.

From my windows programming experience: Isn't there any stack frame (debug version?) for further inspection?

comment:8 by joostp, 19 years ago

I don't own a large enough memory stick to run The Dig at the moment so I haven't tried reproducing it with my english version yet.

The PSP version is based on current 0.8.0CVS source, so the savegame won't work with 0.7.1. You can, however, download a CVS build for windows from the downloads page that should load the PSP savegames just fine.

Note that you should always verify bugs against the CVS version of ScummVM. The reason I want you to do this is to find out if it's my responsibility or that of the SCUMM engine maintainer(s).

Btw, I did play around with a demo version of The Dig but couldn't get that one to crash.

comment:9 by SF/macmoll, 19 years ago

Issue was not reproducable on win32 verson.

Anyways, this seems to be related to audio issues. For example, if frame rate drops, audio begins to stutter. Then, chances are high that one of the two cases happen: (1) I get the mentioned blue-screen crash (2) Game hangs (new observation)

Especially case (2) reminds me to a programming issues where audio buffers run dry and get not refilled in time, becasue of lost/missing timing/interrupts etc. pp.

But this stuttering is still in the game.

Sorry, for not getting more details about this.

comment:10 by joostp, 19 years ago

Interesting...

Can you please try this unstripped build, and give me the details from the exception screen when it crashes? http://0x.7fc1.org/psp/scummvm/EBOOT.PBP

comment:11 by SF/macmoll, 19 years ago

Using the provided EBOOT.PBP, these are the details of the latest crash: Excpetion: Address store EPC: 08BADBE0 Cause: 00014 Status: 20008603 BadVAddr 837F7A85

comment:12 by sev-, 18 years ago

Priority: normalhigh

comment:13 by sev-, 18 years ago

This seems like a release critical. Raising priority.

comment:14 by joostp, 18 years ago

I can't reproduce this with my english version.

comment:15 by sev-, 18 years ago

Priority: highnormal

comment:16 by sev-, 18 years ago

Ok, after discussion, I'm lowering priority for it. Problem is that joostp doesn't have the game so that can't be fixed in nearest future.

comment:17 by joostp, 18 years ago

I'd be interested to hear if this is fixed in 0.8.0 or not.

comment:18 by joostp, 18 years ago

Resolution: worksforme
Status: newclosed

comment:19 by joostp, 18 years ago

Closing due to a lack of response of the submitter and the inability for me to reproduce it here with the English version and latest ScummVM source, that old 'beta5' version was flawed in many ways.

If the bug still exists we can always re-open it.

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