RAMPANT MDs AND DCs -- What was changed????

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Within the past several weeks, the MDs and DCs have gone absolutely wild...

This is no longer like MDs and DCs of old, where typically just one person would MD out....last night I played a game and FOUR people MDed at the same time....just played a game tonight where FIVE people MDed at the same time (a sixth MDed after exiting)....other regular players have reported similar experiences....

The situation online has gotten really bad, really bad, and there is a noticeable difference between now and before several weeks ago...

I don't know if the servers got changed, the most recent update did something or what, but as of late I've played more games with multiple simultaneous MDs/DCs than not....

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

I don't what you are talking about.  Not everyone knows all of the shorthand versions of whatever this is.  Ships? Srategies?

My first guess was Medical Docters and District of Colombia.

This is the first time I have ever encountered these.

 

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting LupusVir, reply 1
I don't what you are talking about. Not everyone knows all of the shorthand versions of whatever this is. Ships? Srategies?
End of LupusVir's quote

Minidumps and Disconnects. In other words technical problems.

You know one thing I noticed with the 1.041 update is that the game seems to autosave a lot more often (right?). Maybe that has something to do with it.

Siege of Centauri
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting GoaFan77, reply 2

Quoting LupusVir, reply 1I don't what you are talking about. Not everyone knows all of the shorthand versions of whatever this is. Ships? Srategies?

Minidumps and Disconnects. In other words technical problems.

You know one thing I noticed with the 1.041 update is that the game seems to autosave a lot more often (right?). Maybe that has something to do with it.
End of GoaFan77's quote

Don't know if this was a MD, but you got dropped from the brony match a couple weeks ago.

-Lord Brony

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Oddski_Boddski, reply 3
Quoting GoaFan77, reply 2
Quoting LupusVir, reply 1I don't what you are talking about. Not everyone knows all of the shorthand versions of whatever this is. Ships? Srategies?

Minidumps and Disconnects. In other words technical problems.

You know one thing I noticed with the 1.041 update is that the game seems to autosave a lot more often (right?). Maybe that has something to do with it.

Don't know if this was a MD, but you got dropped from the brony match a couple weeks ago.

-Lord Brony
End of Oddski_Boddski's quote

What is a brony match?  I know what a brony is, sorta.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Oddski_Boddski, reply 3

Quoting GoaFan77, reply 2
Quoting LupusVir, reply 1I don't what you are talking about. Not everyone knows all of the shorthand versions of whatever this is. Ships? Srategies?

Minidumps and Disconnects. In other words technical problems.

You know one thing I noticed with the 1.041 update is that the game seems to autosave a lot more often (right?). Maybe that has something to do with it.

Don't know if this was a MD, but you got dropped from the brony match a couple weeks ago.

-Lord Brony
End of Oddski_Boddski's quote

It was a disconnect. I reported that to the devs so we'll see what happens.

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Wasn't there an issue awhile back where if players have their 'auto-saves' at different times, they would be a De-sync? Not sure if this is related.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting boshimi336, reply 7
Wasn't there an issue awhile back where if players have their 'auto-saves' at different times, they would be a De-sync? Not sure if this is related.
End of boshimi336's quote

Yeah but it checks for desyncs at autosaves know, so those should be detected.

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting GoaFan77, reply 8
Yeah but it checks for desyncs at autosaves know, so those should be detected.
End of GoaFan77's quote

Maybe that is the issue now. :P

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Ryat, reply 9
Maybe that is the issue now.
End of Ryat's quote

But it did that several patches ago too. There's no reason they would start up in the last few weeks.

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

All I know is that it's awful...I've also noticed that I get a lot of errors while running the dev.exe...VANILLA sins in dev.exe...some of them are music related, but then a bunch are related to some Japanese file...they haven't crashed the game yet but it makes me wonder....if the dev.exe is constantly picking up errors in normal vanilla sins, me thinks the last updated did something to make things worse....

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

During MP I don't crash that often, altho during mods I crash insanely much :/

Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top

Everything looks normal on our end. If you guys are getting minidumps, please send us your dump files so we can investigate.

Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top

I already did, said that patch 1.1 would fix it possibly(I had constant crashes before, until I updated my drivers, so not sure if these things will be fixed, but the constant errors I had before should be fixed), and that it would be released 1 week after he send me the last PM, which was about a month ago now...Oh well, development cycles :)

 

edit: Let me rephrase, I can't play mods at all, crashes each 10 mins or so :|

Reply #14 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting ezeltje299, reply 14
edit: Let me rephrase, I can't play mods at all, crashes each 10 mins or so
End of ezeltje299's quote

If it appears to be random crashes, lower you graphics settings. If it's a RAM issue that should let you play longer at least without crashing.

Reply #15 from Sins Forums Top

I haven't had many issues? o_O

Reply #16 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting GoaFan77, reply 15

Quoting ezeltje299, reply 14edit: Let me rephrase, I can't play mods at all, crashes each 10 mins or so

If it appears to be random crashes, lower you graphics settings. If it's a RAM issue that should let you play longer at least without crashing.
End of GoaFan77's quote

Hmm, I forgot about that stupid RAM limitation...I'll try lowering my graphics :)

Reply #17 from Sins Forums Top

I can't give a dump file if I wasn't one of the people who dumped...sorry...

2 more dumped in a 6 ffa....it isn't just the big games...

Reply #18 from Sins Forums Top

How many unique players each week?  How much strain can 30 people put on the servers?  Things should be running really smooth.

Reply #19 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting ezeltje299, reply 14
edit: Let me rephrase, I can't play mods at all, crashes each 10 mins or so
End of ezeltje299's quote

To copypasta part of a reply I've given people who've reported that about SoGE:

Assuming you are on Windows, that the partition/hard drive you are running Sins off of lacks a paging file, which ensures that Sins cannot use up to 2 GB of RAM, as it should be. The solution to this is to enable a paging file, or use Large Address Aware on Sins' exe, though the latter method is not recommended and doesn't always do the trick.

Reply #20 from Sins Forums Top

Here is the link to my 2 most recent dump files...had 3 people dump in last game, all at the same time...I can't even remember the last game I played where no one MDed....

Quoting Yarlen, reply 13
Everything looks normal on our end. If you guys are getting minidumps, please send us your dump files so we can investigate.
End of Yarlen's quote
 

I was under the impression that dump files were sent automatically...are you not getting them or am I wrong in that they aren't automatically sent?

 

Reply #21 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Seleuceia, reply 21
I was under the impression that dump files were sent automatically...are you not getting them or am I wrong in that they aren't automatically sent?
End of Seleuceia's quote

 

I don't think they are automatically sent.

Reply #22 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Lavo_2, reply 20

Quoting ezeltje299, reply 14edit: Let me rephrase, I can't play mods at all, crashes each 10 mins or so

To copypasta part of a reply I've given people who've reported that about SoGE:

Assuming you are on Windows, that the partition/hard drive you are running Sins off of lacks a paging file, which ensures that Sins cannot use up to 2 GB of RAM, as it should be. The solution to this is to enable a paging file, or use Large Address Aware on Sins' exe, though the latter method is not recommended and doesn't always do the trick.
End of Lavo_2's quote

 

Well, before the 1.4 EVERYTHING worked PERFECTLY, rarely a crash, mods were perfect as well, NEVER a crash, even changed a few things myself with 100% working. And now every mod crashes every 10 mins or so :/

Reply #23 from Sins Forums Top

2 games today where the lobby crashed...had teams set up and the BOOM...crash...most people were DCed, a few were sent back to lobby 1....

I don't know how to say this nicely....something is wrong with ICO....it is noticeably worse than it was several weeks ago, and it isn't just me...

Reply #24 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting GoaFan77, reply 15

Quoting ezeltje299, reply 14edit: Let me rephrase, I can't play mods at all, crashes each 10 mins or so

If it appears to be random crashes, lower you graphics settings. If it's a RAM issue that should let you play longer at least without crashing.
End of GoaFan77's quote

tried lowering my settngs, didn't change a thing :/ damn you stardock, ruining this game with a patch >.>

Reply #25 from Sins Forums Top

I would like to reiterate that there are ERRORS cropping up while running the dev.exe VANILLA (no mods)....one of these errors is related to a file that has the word Japanese somewhere in the name...next time I see it I'll copy the exact error and post it....

The last update also fixed "some localization issues with our Japanese publishing partner"...

Coincidence?

There is also an error related to music that keeps popping up...again, I haven't gotten an MD after these errors pop up, but that's with just me on the dev.exe...larger games could be totally different in that regard.....