CoP crashing

I haven't had any problems yet thankfully, your not running any mods are you?

Running 2 mods for v1.6.0.2.
Item spawner mod: Voron CoP v1.1 - stalker.filefront.com/file/Voron_COP;110357
Trader inventory mod: CoP Trader Mod - stalker.filefront.com/file/CoP_Trader_Mod;111621

Jenifur Charne

Disclaimer: I don't have CoP, and I don't play one on TV.

Both of those sound like they can be easily fixed, JeniSkunk. (The CTDs, not the owning/playing.)

You can check for a nil (blank) weather effect name in the script stuff that involves the weather, and simply not change the weather if the effect is missing.

And you can check for a nil "obj" before you attempt to access a member element (e.g., a variable like health or position, or a member array element) on it:

if obj then return obj.health else return 0 end

But you have to have the corresponding scripts extracted from whatever CoP database files. The xr_logic.script is likely still in the gamedata\scripts subdirectory when extracted and you can go directly to line 1270 in that file. And the weather stuff is also there with weather-related names.

You can look on FileFront for the CoP database extractor, if Don Reba's .NET 2.0 smart extractor doesn't handle CoP. (Link was moved. If it moves again, start with the Download button on this page, go to the SMM Downloads page if not redirected and check the modder tools link.)

Edit: I understand that the CS extractor works with CoP.

I also suggest checking the GSC forum's CoP Bugs and Tech Support section as well as the Mod Discussion section in case this has already been resolved with a patch or code tweaks.

I'm no expert, but I think i smell some BS. Corpses disappear over time, even the so called 'permanent' ones. I doubt it would be possible to slaughter enemies at a rate to outweigh the memory usage before they disappear.

Or at least, I've never heard of a problem like that before.

I've used spawnmods to inject over 100 new NPCs or monsters onto a map at a time, and slaughtered them in rapid succession before moving on and repeating the 'experiment' 2-3 times per gameplay. While I've had some lag (2.66gHz Intel Quad/Rusty old GS9600 making themselves known there), I've only had memory crashes when I loaded the new creatures/NPCs in closed spaces too small to house them all.

We've had corrupted saves before, random crashes in certain maps, runtime errors, the infamous Pripyat bug in the Russian CoP version, but nothing quite like this.

NatVac might have something to say, though.

The corpse overload problem is most memorable from SoC with how the corpses of the pseudodog copies in the Red Forest can overload a system causing a CTD. The game keeps spawning psuedodogs there until you leave; run out of ammo; or are killed.

CS has spots where it will keep force spawning NPCs in certain locations if you kill them before you are scheduled to. In Limansk there's one Monolith sniper on a roof, that you can kill and keep killing, and it won't fight back until the script event for its proper triggering has happened. I lost track of how many of it I killed. With unlimited ammo and a Gauss, easy enough to do. When I went to look at the corpses at the foot of the building, there was a mixed mound of them and sniper rifles. I didn't manage to CTD CS doing that.

I don't know if there's anything that could cause similar in CoP though.


Jenifur Charne

No. Not on a water tower.
Just on the roof of one of the houses.
I'll try to find that water tower one though.

Jenifur Charne

Sorry you think its BS but its happening corspes of mutants, all types are not been removed from game i have even tried using sleep mode to see if that helped. I can play game it stutters sometimes but it just wont save even tried moving from one area to another but still crashes in auto save. Npcs are being removed and respawned ok, it just the mutants.