Testers wanted for DXOgg.dll fix

[stucuk]

Query: why didn't you add Exception handling(I posted a link to a MSDN article on it pages ago)? It would help to narrow down errors.

[Scale]

Ok had some school stuff to take care off, anyways here is the new crash i have been having.

I hope this means something to you jim If not i could probably show you how to use this information in combination with the source code.
So if you want to try that drop me a PM

[Jim]

stucuk - While I appreciate your suggestion, exception handling is not what I need at the moment. I know the general area of where the crash is occurring. The crash is happening inside an ogg vorbis function (ov_read) which is being called inside my ogg streaming thread. I add exception handling when necessary, but right now it would do absolutely nothing to help me debug this particular issue.

This is not a simple "find crash point, fix bug" sort of thing. The crash is a side effect of the true problem, which I theorize has something to do with my management of the stream that might cause this to occur on certain computers/sound cards. Other than the one time (which as it seems I may have not fully fixed) I have not been able to replicate it myself at all. It's a rather bad debugging scenario, and I have to make educated guesses of what exactly is going on.

Regardless, I have a general hypothesis of what's going on, but not being able to make it occur myself makes it a rather difficult situation.

So, yea, I suppose I'm just trying to emphasize that this is not your run-of-the-mill sort of bug. This is one of the nastier types which, while not impossible by any means, is simply very cumbersome to debug.

[stucuk]

Guess u wouldn't be willing to send me the source code? (I assume its made in Visual C++ rather than another C++ compiler. I have both VC 2003 and 2008)

And yes, them kind of bugs are always the most fun...

[Jetsetlemming]

Faulting application tnm.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module dxogg.dll, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x00058e09.

It's spiked in chance by a huge amount ever since I entered ABI.

[Jim]

NEW VERSION ALARM!

I -think- I figured out what was going on. There were certain cases where the thread wasn't terminating correctly and I had a situation with overlapping threads. I think it caused these issues, discovered it by mere chance. Still possible it may crash or not play the song though. Give it a go and let me know.

[Jim]

Guess u wouldn't be willing to send me the source code? (I assume its made in Visual C++ rather than another C++ compiler. I have both VC 2003 and 2008)

And yes, them kind of bugs are always the most fun...

I sense a light "Damnit Jim, you're a captain not a programmer! You suck! Hand over that code and I'll show you how it's done!"

Although if I could be a captain of a starship that would be totally awesome.

Regardless, my stuff is always open source, so, here if you want it. If you want to compile it you'll have to download and compile the latest ogg libraries, probably have to go over project settings, as well as download the deus ex sdk version that has the headers and libraries.

I don't want this thread to get sidetracked with "holy crap jim's code is uglier than an elephants butt!" or "woa, that has to be the longest variable name I've ever seen", so keep any questions/comments about it strictly to PMs. This thread is specifically for bug reports and testing new versions.

[odawali]

DXOggChocobo.zip [174.36 KiB]

This works like a charm. No crashes so far in about 3 hours of game play.

[stucuk]

Iv also had 0 crashes. Tho i never personaly noticed any with the one before the last one.

[ridgerunner]

I reported a bug back in this thread titled: "Jumpy background music".

This is just a quick note to say this bug has been fixed! I first installed the 1.0.1 patch (which did NOT fix the problem), then I installed Jim's latest (as of Mar 29, 2009) DxOgg.dll patch: DXOggChocobo.zip, which DID fix the bug. Thank-you-very-much-Jim!

WooHooo! I'm back in the game! (and now I can hear the music!)

[dataangel]

I'm definitely interested, my game crashes a lot and the event viewer says at least some of the crashes are in dxogg (I also get them in core and unknown)

Edit: The updated DXOgg in that thread worked for me too

[Jim]

I reported a bug back in this thread titled: "Jumpy background music".

This is just a quick note to say this bug has been fixed! I first installed the 1.0.1 patch (which did NOT fix the problem), then I installed Jim's latest (as of Mar 29, 2009) DxOgg.dll patch: DXOggChocobo.zip, which DID fix the bug. Thank-you-very-much-Jim!

WooHooo! I'm back in the game! (and now I can hear the music!)

I am very pleased to hear it, I was actually intending to email you and ask you to try out this version; I've changed quite a bit since then and figured it might work correctly now. So far it's been a few days with no crashing being reported, as well as your issue fixed, so looks like this definitely may be a winner.

I am very thankful for all the help you guys have been to help me nail it, and I apologize that this bug ever existed in the first place. Yeesh, this bug was seriously evil though. I'd have to say that in my 15ish or so years of coding I've never seen a bug elude me so well in such a tiny project. I just about played through the entire game trying to see if I could get a random crash trying to find it, and never did (I love tricking ghand into spontaneously combusting). So, I suppose let it be a lesson for me - "evil will always triumph because good is dumb." *looks at carone*

(This is the part where you guys interrupt me and tell me that it crashed again.)

[Jonas]

*Hugs Jim*

[stucuk]

Faulting application tnm.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module dxogg.dll, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x001e0409.

Iv just had a crash












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[Jonas]

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