Construct crashed while watching God Of War 3 trailer ?:o

It has happend just 2 minutes ago. I can't say whether this was a bug or not, but thats so weird - I have had construct opened for few hours but i wasn't doing anything with it. And it has crashed while i was plaing God Of War 3 New Trailer in quicktime. well, i've looked in to the event sheet for a sec, just before watching it, but did not did any editing. I don't know what to say. Is it possible that this was a bug?

can you get it to happen again..?

invalid texture was refrenced bug right?

if so its because it glitched while regaining focus or something like that, it happens to me when i stop using construct for a while then open it up from the windows bar.

This is "don't know what to say". I'd go with that its your machine that is source of evil :--). Maybe graphics acceleration is involved in these strange crashes?

I'd agree with Quazi and say it's probably a VRAM issue.

I found the problem:

if (system->GetTrailerPreviewStatus("GodOfWar3"))

{

crash();

}

Seriously though, I'm not sure. It sounds like the Direct-X device is used to render the video and - perhaps by some dodgy code - not freed or passed back to Construct.

I'd bet this is a lost device issue. Whenever an app takes fullscreen mode it causes all other apps using DirectX to release all their textures and memory and stuff. We've coded lost device handling code for the IDE, but it may be broken. You can simulate running the fullscreen trailer just by setting your game to fullscreen mode and previewing. If you close and the IDE has crashed, that's a lost device bug. Of course reproducability is the holy grail of all bugs, so if you can get a .cap which can reliably induce this, we can get on to fixing it right away.

The crash also occurs after you relog into Windows XP after a period of inactivity.

Really? You have a .cap file that reproduces that? Can you put it on the tracker so we can fix it?

It seems to happen with any cap (at least with textures), the crash doesn't occur every time, but if you switch to other window other than Construct (say Firefox), switch user in Windows, then switch back and open Construct window; there is bound to be an anomaly (such as editor tabs - Layout/Event sheet - or scrolling bars disappear. But that is the editor stuff.

I'll post it on tracker with a cap where this is consistent.

Yeah, I've got it after going on standby then logging on again.

I know why this all happened guys... It's because (and I'm suprised you don't all already know this), but it's because God Of War 3 is totally more awesome than anything else... and therefore all other applications tremble in it's presence. Sheesh.

~Sol

If you lock your computer with windows+L (on a computer that does not use the welcome screen to log in) the event sheet and layout sheet selection things at the bottom disappear as well, though this is fixed by a window resize.

After lunch I found out that windows had logged me out, so I logged in... crash! I had Construct open after a bit of work.

I know why this all happened guys... It's because (and I'm suprised you don't all already know this), but it's because God Of War 3 is totally more awesome than anything else... and therefore all other applications tremble in it's presence. Sheesh.

~Sol

in did ><'