Demigod randomly crashes mid game... without an error...

I'm having an issue where I am in the middle of a match and Demigod just closes... The program ends itself and returns me to the desktop. It happens mid game... tried it both with the standard version of Demigod, and today's beta patch.

Windows Vista 64 Home Premium
Intel i6 Core2-Quad Q6700
4GB g.Skill DDR2-1000 RAM
80GB 10K-RPM Western Digital Raptor
ATI Radeon HD 3870x2 Platinum
5.9 Windows Vista Experience Rating

This bug is WORSE than the crashing on fail to connect bug. With the fail to connect bug, you only screw yourself. With this bug, a computer AI takes over for your account; essentially screwing over your team mates... who probably think you quit for QQing.

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Reply #1 Top

Same happened to me... once with a Runtime Error and once it simply closed the game without doing nothing...

Reply #2 Top

It just happened to be 2 times in a row... and I've only played 2 games today... 1 was with the normal version, 1 with the beta version.

Reply #3 Top

3 times in a row... I played all yesterday without any crashes... now... cant get through a single game.

Looking at my account on the Pantheon, NONE of the games with these crashes are getting recorded... maybe the match itself crashed?

Reply #5 Top

Yup just today it happend, i was just in the middle of a game and bam instantly back to desktop, no error, no freeze, just bam... desktop. Currently on beta version and my specs are above recommended. I havent had the problem till recently.. maybe i would have had it befor but its hard to tell when i couldnt get in a game

Reply #6 Top

omg, that is happening to others too?  I had no idea.  Same here, but I thought it was some kind of virus on my computer.  Just drops to desktop out of the blue, but the computer seems just fine after that.

Reply #7 Top

yeah nothing is wrong my computer virus/adware wise. I think this may be happening to more ppl than we know. Sound off guys or at least bump

Reply #8 Top

Check to make sure you're using the most up to date version of DirectX.  You can update here:

 

http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?FamilyID=2da43d38-db71-4c1b-bc6a-9b6652cd92a3&displaylang=en

 

Reply #9 Top

yup 9.0 c if i am not correct, like i said befor this only started happening recently. I just dont want this bug to give my account a bad reputation for leaving games

Reply #11 Top

Same situation here, just got booted in the middle of a game, no detailed error message other than it black screening and saying that Demigod closed with an error.

 

Radeon 4870x2

Q9450

Asus P5Q Pro motherboard

4gb Corsair PC1066

Vista 32bit

all drivers current (including DirectX)

Reply #13 Top

this just happened to me for the first time after weeks of regular play.

Time of this report: 5/12/2009, 21:55:33
       Machine name:
   Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3

           Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: Everex Systems,Inc
       System Model: Everex StepNote XT Series
               BIOS: Version 1.0
          Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor TK-53,  MMX,  3DNow (2 CPUs), ~1.7GHz
             Memory: 2046MB RAM
          Page File: 242MB used, 3186MB available
        Windows Dir: C:\WINDOWS
    DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
     DxDiag Version: 5.03.2600.5512 32bit Unicode

edit: oops:
Display Devices
        Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS

Reply #14 Top

This just happened again. Two games in a row now all of a sudden. Ran a bootable ram tester and hotcpu tester last night. running off to go use 3dmark, but I'm really leaning towards it's a software problem since my hardware has been checking out AOK, and so many of the other games I play use so much more of the these resources. Game shut down from in game, to straight to desktop, no error or anything, all of a sudden just desktop.

on top of my specs above, games i have played on normal to full settings recently problem free: gears of war, command and conquer 3, earth 2150, assassin's creed, and frontlines fuel of war. these games are all much more graphics/cpu intensive and play fine with no crashes.

edit: i also run DG on the lowest settings possible due to fear of lag.

Reply #15 Top

yup 9.0 c if i am not correct, like i said befor this only started happening recently. I just dont want this bug to give my account a bad reputation for leaving games

that is exactly what i'm worried about, especially in this community.

Reply #16 Top

Still happening, WTB patch. Here's the link to my last game. I was 8-0 and the game was over when I crashed with ashkandar, bulwark of ages, and giants.

 

http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/game/401294/player/44110/

Reply #17 Top

Hello demigod guys/gals, i understand your busy but i can no longer play w/o getting kicked off. With such a small community im afraid my account will be blacklisted. All im asking for is a response acknowleging the issue. You guys have been great thus far, i just want to know if this issue is being looked at. Thanks for your time

Reply #18 Top

If anyone has any crash logs or mini dumps from this (I believe a .dmp file may be placed in the demigod folder after a crash), please make sure to send them on to support so they can be investigated.

Reply #19 Top

nothing pops up... no error log or anything just instantly sends you to your desktop like nothing was ever opened. Is there a way to get an error log or report it?

Reply #20 Top

Same thing just happened to me, no crash log in demigod but windows vista disseminated a bit of info,

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:    APPCRASH
  Application Name:    Demigod.exe
  Application Version:    1.0.0.114
  Application Timestamp:    4a08cb60
  Fault Module Name:    ntdll.dll
  Fault Module Version:    6.0.6001.18000
  Fault Module Timestamp:    4791a783
  Exception Code:    c0000005
  Exception Offset:    0002324b
  OS Version:    6.0.6001.2.1.0.256.1
  Locale ID:    1033
  Additional Information 1:    0fda
  Additional Information 2:    a692d449ca604d6384bd06a4d3a1abba
  Additional Information 3:    84c8
  Additional Information 4:    7dae53173468167c088027f3d2547542

and to Dash, this happened post Directx update.

Reply #21 Top

No dump files or anything when it crashes.  It's going to be hard to track this bug without more information.  GPG may have to get an update in just to be able to gather more info for folks who are crashing.

Reply #22 Top

getting the same problem. I did get an error log on one and sent it to stardock though. Was an exception access violation.

Reply #23 Top

i'm sure a lot of people have tried this already, but after all the recent patching i decided to just do a clean install of the game. after reinstalling I haven't had this issue pop up again yet, but it didn't happen that often anyways and it's only been a day. anyone reinstalled and still have this problem?

Reply #24 Top

Why I am not surpized to see 23 "dittos" on a message like this. Yeah, this game has randomly dropped me from everything from single player to trying to enter the pantheon.