Spring RTS Engine

Well, this happens for all players, and basically you see the error reporting and then a split second after (or possibly when you hit the button), the PC BSODs (non informational, possibly mem. leak) and restarts.

I thought it was my PC, but when I got up, all the other players started signing into MSN and we had all crashed at the same time.

Unmodded, stock config, default map.

Yea, I had the exact same issue once, and then one time a BSOD without the error message (unless the error appeared under the TA Spring game, and I didn't here the sound). It was one of those "Memory Address 0xbb83938b could not be 'read'" messages. I don't know if this happened for the other players in the game. I also did the windows "submit a bug report" when my system rebooted, and it actually came back with results! (gasp!)... it said something about it being related to a driver... but it didn't know which one. I think it might be my graphics driver... I've had problems with OpenGL based games before. I'm running:

hp pavilion xt155 (notebook computer)
OS: Windows XP Home
Graphics: ATI Radeon IGP 345M (a crap graphics chip that shares with my onboard memory)
Graphics driver: ati2dvag.dll

I hope this helps... and sorry if this is posted in the wrong place or something.

--Mongoose

P.S. Other than that, my experience spring has been VERY good, and the lag has been MINIMAL (very rare for my computer)

You can actually avoid the BSOD:

When the error reporting message pops up, open up the Task Manager (ctrl-alt-del) and end the Spring process.

At least, that's worked for me.

mine just automatically goes to the BSOD X(

Same, I think.

Any ideas where this is coming from?


I have: AMD Barton2500, GFFX5600XT, 512mb PC3700 ram.

I could try underclocking my ram...but its for every player on the server so its not my system.

I've always noticed it comes into play in mid-late game... can anyone corroborate?

When Tool and I played, the crash came pretty quick, didnt it?

5 mins in?

tooleh wrote:Well, this happens for all players, and basically you see the error reporting and then a split second after (or possibly when you hit the button), the PC BSODs (non informational, possibly mem. leak) and restarts.

I thought it was my PC, but when I got up, all the other players started signing into MSN and we had all crashed at the same time.
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That is extremely weird! It has got to be a Windows bug or something...

mongoose wrote:... "Memory Address 0xbb83938b could not be 'read'" ...

Maybe a useless question but what CPU do you have?

First off, just to clarify, that memory address I listed was completely random. But, I have a:

Mobile Intel Celeron 1.8GHz

I'm guessing the CPU isn't related to the problem and it's some windows/OpenGL issue. But, always good to list it all I suppose

--Mongoose