Spring RTS Engine

It seems for some players new spring version crashes during loading.
For example might suddendly get error message "This stack trace indicates a problem with your graphic card driver." even if never had a problem with that.
Ideally you will want to find out what causes this and fix or report it blablabla.

But maybe one just wants to play right now?
What worked for me is this:
1) Find your spring.exe
2) In same folder make a file bla.bat (.txt file and rename it)
and write into it: 3) Now when the game starts, you wait until it crashes during loadingscreen
4) After it has crashed, doubleclick the bla.bat file and maybe you will be able to play now.

Of course that is a bit ugly and if you report the crash there is higher chance that soon it is possible to play normal again
See here how to report bugs.


Pro tip:
instead of waiting for it to crash, close Spring during loading.

If it says "can not connect, player is already ingame": wait a few seconds



non-windows:
You have to start the spring executable with two commandline parameters:
script.txt --safemode
How excactly that works depends on your OS.

If you don't want to go so far as safemode, try disabling one or btoh of 3dtrees and shadows. That should help a few cases but not everyone.

knorke wrote:Of course that is a bit ugly and if you report the crash there is higher chance that soon it is possible to play normal again
See here how to report bugs.

I already reported that bug, but I guess it's not relevant anymore. I assume that since you can only report spring 93.2, it is now out. Maybe that bug has already been corrected then.

knorke wrote: 2) In same folder make a file bla.bat tp.bat (.txt file and rename it)
and write into it:

creating new reports for 93.1 is disabled in mantis as 93.2 is out... mostly makes no sense to create new reports for "old" versions. maybe this time i was to fast as 93.2 only fixes unitsync. afaik the bug is still present...

Silentwings wrote:If you don't want to go so far as safemode, try disabling one or btoh of 3dtrees and shadows. That should help a few cases but not everyone.

Ooh thx ! you saved me !