I am having a horrendous time keeping ATTAC up and running. I run it on two different computers, not at the same time. One is an XP machine that is at the place I work, and the other is a Win2000 machine.
It has a 90% chance of crashing when Busted at a port. It also has a habit of crashing when I'm just manually tooling around and doing things, at which point I have to reopen ATTAC and try to get back in before something bad happens to me.
To say it's slightly irritating is an undertatement. The two machines don't connect to each other in any way, nor share databases or anything. It does this on every game i have in ATTAC, on three different servers.
Please, I love how ATTAC handles stuff compared to SWATH, but the crashing is killing me!
First confirm that your sector size is correct. I would reinstall attac in a new directory and create a new game. Did you do anything special? have you changed the fonts etc...
earth.
I am seeing the same thing. It just seems to lock up and become unresponsive. I usually have to end task on it and re-open and pray I don't get nailed.
My sector size is correct so I am going to try reinstalling like you suggest.
I am a registered ATTAC user BUT I never use it. My TradewArs Perma corpie registered 2 Attac packages with 4 handles in each one for him and one for me.
He constantly locks up. As near as we can tell it is since the addition of TWX Sync. since that is what his firewall alerts are telling him. I want to use Attac as well but untill his is fixed I don't want to risk it.
It seems adding TWX Sync registered may fix it BUT that is a cost extra addon and since we have already psid for 2 ATTAC registrations and are only using one .... well I think you get the picture.
First explain what you mean by lock up. tell him to search for regina.dll on his harddrive and tell me if there is more than one and where they are.
TWXSync packets are send asychronously from a seperate thread so that shouldnt lock attac. i need more details. is he scripting. what is the error on the firewall.
earth.
Hey Earth, I've had this happen to me too. I did find a workaround for it, but that really only masks the problem and limits ATTAC's usefulness. If you turn off ATTAC's data parser, you won't have it lock up. ATTAC seems to be processor intensive- if I have another app that uses over 1/3 of the CPU, ATTAC will lock up on me. If I turn of data parsing, it all works, but then I lost a lot of functionality. Is there something that can be done to keep ATTAC from being a processor hog but at the same time maintain functionality?
I have the same problem I quit using attac because it constantly locks up. I like the map, and other data tools, but its just not reliable with the help parses data... like nearest fig... as soon as I do one of the commands windows pops open
attac.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.
then I have to load it... I dealy if this ever gets fixed I would like to keep using it but untill then I have to go with zoc...
And yes I have tried installing it in anouther directory and such...
heres my debug info if it helps
Is Registered: Yes
Is HandleValid: Yes
Is TWX Sync Registered: No
ID: ATTCI-PC
atc file version: 2
universe size: 20000
Rylos: -1
Alpha: -1
Sol: -1
CRC: 1175947024
Max Planets In DB: 2000
Max Players In DB: 800
Name of Game: localhost
Address of Game: localhost
Port of Game: 22
Update CIM Sectors: 1
Pay Tolls: 2
Days to Clear Busts: 1
Update CIM Ports: 1
Kill Defensive Figs: 1
escape Sector: 1
Terra: 1
ZTM end-1: 1
ZTM 1-end: 1
Last Robbed: -1
Last Busted: -1
last Announcment: 1129341980
last Update Time: 0
last Sync Time: 0
TWX SessionId:
TWX Session Password:
TWXSync Server:
TWXSync Port: 7777
Self Destruct: 1
Port On Map: 1
Blind Twarp: 1
Steal Factor: 21
Update Map: 1
Worst Factor: 135
Valid SD keys: bcghlpqstu!?`'=;#@/|^*
Fed Comm Key: 11223344556677
Update Info Bar: 1
Update Announcements: 1
Last CIM: 1129340590
Detach Windows: 0
Popup Comms: 1
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Current Game
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Game: moo2.atc
Saved Games
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Game 1: CW.atc
Game 2: Neverending.atc
Game 3: hmmm.atc
Game 4: invite.atc
Game 5: moo2.atc
Hardware Summary
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OEM ID: 0
Number of Processors: 2
Page Size: 4096
Processor Type: 586
Minimum Application Address: 10000
Maximum Application Address: 7ffeffff
Active Processor Mask: 3
Operating System
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Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
ATTAC Version Release 4.1.8 (Jan 16 2005 16:06:59)
All the debug info looks fine. i have never run ATTAC on a multi-processor machine though.
Does attac freeze when you are just using it or when you are running a script?
My suggestion is search your harddrive for regina.dll. If you find one in c:\windows\system, then delete it. And recreate the game if it is crashing. it is possible the data might be corrupted.
earth.
Ya it does it when ever I try one of attac's buit in scripts such as nearest fig or blocked ports, maxed ports pair trading.... pretty much any built in script that attac has
also "My suggestion is search your harddrive for regina.dll. If you find one in c:\windows\system, then delete it. And recreate the game if it is crashing. it is possible the data might be corrupted.
earth."
is not in that directory at all... any other sugestions... I doubt it has anything to do with being multi-processor