[lacks info] 3.7.0 Beta 2 - Game crashes when connection to Server is lost

[MuwuM]

When I loose connection to a server (e.g. by the Server quitting the game before me) I got an error message that packages can not be sent/recived to/from the server. But with the error message MG stops working.

Version: 3.7.0 Beta 2
Operating System: Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit (6.1, Build 7601) Service Pack 1 (7601.win7sp1_gdr.120830-0333)
Language: German (Regional Setting: German)
Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2700K CPU @ 3.50GHz (8 CPUs), ~3.5GHz
Memory: 16384MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 16352MB RAM
Page File: 4083MB used, 28617MB available

[tomreyn]

A backtrace would be helpful there, if it segfaults. What is the meaning of "stops working"?

Can you reproduce this? How?

[MuwuM]

I can't give you a backtrace, because I have not playable Version of MG until Sunday.

Stop working means: "no response" showed by Windows and MG process have to be killed and restarted to get any progress.

This "stop working"-error happens only when an error message is displayed on windows and not on each but on many.

Reproduce this error:  Start a network game with a windows-client and an server. Then break the connection between Server and Client and the Client should get this error.

[tomreyn]

I tried to reproduce this in a Windows 7 VM (running on a Linux host). When I pulled the plug the the window title changed into something about "application not responding" but one or two seconds later it would recover and display a network connection timeout message on screen, bumping me back the main menu, allowing me to continue as normal. The fact I'm running it in a VM makes this a bit of a different test scenario, though...

[MuwuM]

ok, the same error, but the problem for me is that the "not responding" is therefor more than 10 seconds ... or even longer so noone wants to wait so long.

[tomreyn]

Does it ever recover form this state for you?
If it does then personally I don't consider this to be much of an issue, since this situation will hardly occur in the first place and even then you can still close MG by killing the process.

[Coldfusionstorm]

I too have had this hanging behavior before. im just chipping in since im running on not fully up-to-date verions of MG right.

[softcoder]

Please test this on the latest svn version and tell me if its fixed now?

[MuwuM]

It seems to be fixed in SVN, tested yesterday on Windows 7 64bit.