Crash/Freeze on levels 5 and greater

[annikk.exe]

What is the make and model of the laptop?

[Snow_Cat]

I'll take a look, though it is a bit odd that Intel's driver update utility assured me that it had installed the latest (stable) drivers for me.

The laptop is a stock HP nc6620, it has not had the reccommended heatsink refit.

[Snow_Cat]

Downloaded that driver package, it contains the exact same video driver I have installed allready and an updated hdmi audio driver (that is not applicable since my laptop is not equipped with an hdmi port).

Did an initial pass on the asteroid locations, and recorded the resulting level dimensions:

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Maximum dimensions.
lvl x-  x+  y-  y+
1   200 3600 -2500 1100
2 -1500 2200 -1500 6000
3 -1600 2200 -9000 1500
4 -6500 6500 -6500 6500
5 -8500 3800 -2700 1800
6 -7792 3708 -1579 2902
7 -1600 13212 -1600 1600
8 -5200 5200 -5500 5000
9 -6036 6246 -6950 6935
10 -5500 6300 -5750 5550

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Minimum dimensions.
1 200 3600 -2500 1100
2     0 2200     0 6000
3 -1600 2200 -9000 1200
4 -2400 5400 -3500 2500
5 -6500 3800 -1700    0
6 -7792 3708 -1579 2902
7     0 13212 -840 1462
8 -5200 5200 -5500 5000
9 -6036 6246 -6950 6935
10 -5500 6300 -5750 5550
Unfortunately it does not appear that the dimensions alone is the culprit, as the maximum dimesions of levels 8 and 10 fit within the minimum dimensions of levels 1 thru 4 -- though level 4 does occasionally freeze for me.

I might try screwing around with the level logic next.

[annikk.exe]

Fair enough, guess they finished coding it and marked the datestamp, but it was uploaded 4 days later and datestamped online as a different time.

Eufloria only requires 512megs of RAM so I don't think your 1gig is the cause of the problem.

One other thing to try is uninstalling and reinstalling the Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework.  You can get it from Windows Update or from here.  It's a required package for Eufloria so if all else fails, it might be that.. :>

[Alex]

I'm right up against it at the moment but I will try to offer some semblence of support in the next week. Sorry

[Snow_Cat]

Reinstaling the .net and C++ framework is probabally is a good idea, since I don't know if having two versions installed simultaneously has an effect, only that it can't be good.

   Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.17
    Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable - x86 9.0.30729.4148

Don't appologise;
I am the only one that has posted this problem, and probabally represent no more than 100 affected users, perhaps even fewer as my computer was polluted by ST's development software and their "BTW: pay us $5000 more to make the hardware and software you've allready purchased from us work the way we told you it would in the first place." strategy. It broke my existing gcc and VS instalations so that no code would compile and run on my machine without my paying their ransom. There could be some lingering code bomb on my system may have snuck through the reformat/rebuild - though I thought that I had destroied all the binaries before archiving my projects.

I've wated a couple months before buying Dyson/Eufloria and can wait a couple more to actually play it. Though this is an interesting puzzle for me to poke at.


edit: reinstalling the .net framework did the trick, though there are now other performance issues appearing in windows itself.

[Snow_Cat]

I am also recieving achievements/honourifics now.

[annikk.exe]

Hurray!  Looks like we've found the problem then. :>

Thanks for your patience... :>

Sorry to hear about the other problems with Windows.  Mind you, it sounds like you almost enjoy troubleshooting, judging by the gusto with which you reverse-engineered all the levels to find out what was wrong.  :P
I'm a Network/System admin for my day job so if you need help with it just give me a shout.  :>

[Snow_Cat]

I do enjoy troubleshooting, so long as I'm not trying to do it through another person--

and I think that I've identified the cause:

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

does not equal

Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2

Better add this to the troubleshooting checklist.

[Alex]

Thanks - we'll need to get Valve to update the install process for the game too.

[Don]

This is the best match for the problems I'm seeing in crossover/wine - pretty much exactly the same symptoms. I think I'm going to suspect .NET 2.0 SP2 is involved (or in the wine case, not involved, as we don't have hooks for it yet I'll need rerun a test against 2.02 (where it was good) to see if it's still good there - if so, that may actually be the present limit for gameplay in crossover/wine -- hopefully I'll be able to isolate the patch version where things became mysterious....

[Aino]

do you have the link for it.......!!!


white kitchen cabinets

Put the link in your signature, much easier then

[Alex]

Please stop replying to spammers

[Aino]

sry :/

[Sav]

Hi again guys,

I am also experiencing this issue, half way through level 4 after making a dyson tree on the 5th asteroid the game comes up with the window "Eufloria has experienced an unexpected error", when i unlock the later levels, it happens almost instantly, 5-11. My previous computer ran the game fine no problem? and im using the exact same copy of windows xp sp 3.
Im guessing its a hardware issue because my computer is completely up to date? i have net framework 2 and ive installed 4...
i have also tried reinstalling but to no avail. My video card is also updated to the most recent version.
Its the non steam version of Eufloria (rather give money to the creators then steam).
Ive tried reinstalling eufloria several times too?
Can anyone suggest anything? i miss playing it