Game freezes when Borg Ship Enters.

[ChronowerX_GT]

The game works fine but whenever I add a borg ship to the game it freezes. It's with any borg ship. I think it has something to do with the mp3 file that plays when they enter. Has anyone else had the same problem?

[MLeo]

I haven't heard of any problem.


Try alt+tabbing and see if you can find a BC icon, go to that (through alt+tab but holding the tab to see the window and pressing tab to move an icon). Take a screenshot (Alt+Printscreen), type in abort and confirm with Enter. BC will close. Open paint, make the default canvas small, press Ctrl+v, save as png to a location you can later find again, and attach the image you produced here.

[ChronowerX_GT]

Sorry, when I said freeze I meant that it freezes and then just exits to the desktop with an error message (BC has stopped working: Close program/report problem)

[Kirk]

Are you running it in windowed mode?

[intrepid90]

I'll have to check it, but it seems the same problem as I have.
I expect a corrupted AI because when you add a friendly borg, nothing happens, only when he tries to attack, right? try it!

[ChronowerX_GT]

Are you running it in windowed mode?

No, i'm running full screen.

I'll have to check it, but it seems the same problem as I have.
I expect a corrupted AI because when you add a friendly borg, nothing happens, only when he tries to attack, right? try it!

Yeah, i'll give that a go.

[Kirk]

That's probably the problem, however, run in windowed mode, so when the error happens the debug window can catch it.

[cnotsch]

in the last moths i have gained some experience with bc simply crashing and closing. a very often problem is: if you attach an event handler to a not valid object bc crashes totally without any error.
if the error is in the AI it may be a conditional or target preprocessing AI wich is somehow not working properly because this ones most likely do something when a enemy ship enters the set. ???
just in case this would help someone to get an idea.

[MLeo]

Have you tried the mp3 files themselves?

They are:
sfx/Custom/AssimilationBeam/FirstContactBorgSpeech.wav
sfx/Custom/AssimilationBeam/FirstContactBorgSpeech.wav
sfx/Custom/AssimilationBeam/FirstContactBorgSpeech.wav
sfx/Custom/AssimilationBeam/FirstContactBorgSpeech.wav
sfx/Custom/AssimilationBeam/FirstContactBorgSpeech.wav
sfx/Custom/AssimilationBeam/BasicSpeechVoyager.wav
sfx/Custom/AssimilationBeam/LowerShieldsSurrerShipsLowQ.wav
sfx/Custom/AssimilationBeam/ResistanceIsFutile.wav
sfx/Custom/AssimilationBeam/WeBorgYouAssimlitanceFutile.wav
sfx/Custom/AssimilationBeam/YourCultureLowQ.wav
sfx/Custom/AssimilationBeam/YourDefensiveCabilitiesLowQ.wav
sfx/Custom/AssimilationBeam/AddDistinctivenessLowQ.wav
sfx/Custom/AssimilationBeam/FreedomIrrelevantLowQ.wav



This script is really simple, no AI involved at all.

[cnotsch]

was just an idea i had that seemed to fit in here, in case it weren't the sounds...

[MLeo]

Oh yeah, moved to Technical Support (I ought to move the other Borg Greeting sound thread here).



*Moved*

[jayce]

if you are using the Kobayashi Maru Mod and believe the problem to be AI related, then read my post here:

http://bc-central.net/forums/index.php?topic=2658.msg48526#msg48526

and when i say replace, i do not mean overwrite. i mean delete the old and replace with the new.