Icon 437 causes lock up.

[andy1964]

Hi,

Just a quick message to see if anyone has any idea why Icon 437 keeps causing my laptop to lock up. Every time I access it through Mobhack, the laptop has to be reset via a hard restart. Lots of HD activity and everything stops responding. I've looked in the forum to see if anyone else has reported anything similiar but nothing seems to be mentioned.

This isn't a major problem I know but if I keep forgetting whilst messing round with the editor (whilst searching for a specific vehicle icon) it's annoying.

Any reasoning behind this would be appreciated.

[DRG]

Icon 437 shows in my records as ..

{6553, 6554}, // 437. UNUSED TURRETED

...so I haven't used it in the game.

SHP files can bite you big time if they are built wrong. I assume this a file you created or downloaded from somewhere?

Don

[Stirling]

It locks up my comp for about 30 seconds if I roll from 436 to 437 with the little selector arrow. It comes back eventually, though. I think it will do this on out of bounds numbers from time to time.

[Mobhack]

Unfortunately, there is no way for Mobhack to determine if the ID number exists in the file unless it tries loading it from file. There is also no way to enter a list into a spin control, other than a nin and max value.

That can mean a long delay, and (at least on my machine) very occasional lock-ups. I may look again to see if there is something that could be done to fix that, but then again I dont find it much of a problem as I usually enter an ID directly rather than use the spin controls.

Cheers
Andy

[andy1964]

Hiya,

Thanks for the info on that. To answer DRG, nope it was the standard file that comes with the game.

As Mobhack said it's not much of a problem, it only came about because I was messing around, creating a whole new listing (anyone of a certain age and experience, remember the fantasians? and is that term still in use I wonder) and wanted to know what icons there were around to use. It also happens in the region of about 2700 as I found last night. I've now d/l'ed that list of icons that someone did, apologies for not remembering off hand who did it, but ty.

Also While I am here, TY for redoing this game for XP. It was one if those "that's why I never ditched my old PC so i could keep playing it" games.

TY
Andy

[DRG]

This ones partly my fault. My computer will happily display a blank when it looks into a SHP file that doesn't have an entry. That's what happened here. That particular SHP file only has entries in the file itself up to Icon 436. After that it's blank and can be added to but I haven't added to it. Some machines have a fit when they are told to look at something that doesn't exist

Attached is a corrected Icon0065.shp file that should solve your problem

Don

[andy1964]

Thanks DRG,

Wasn't really much of a problem, was just one of those.....

Uggggh I forgot things and accessed the icon again...oops :-)

Will download that new shp though ty.

Andy