Bug #19452 – Game crashes on main menu!
| Found by: | Larry Tester |
| Assigned to: | J. Random Hacker |
| Priority: | Super Urgent |
| Description: | When I pick 1-player from the main menu, the game crashes! |
Reproduction steps:
- Play an 8-player multiplayer game for half an hour on the ‘Cliffs of Precipity’ map.
- Quit via the pause menu.
- Reboot the console.
- Go to lunch, eat a meat pie.
- Come back, press X until the splash screens are gone.
- Pick 1-player item from the main menu
| Actual Result: | Game crashes. |
| Expected Result: | Game does not crash. |
Comment #1 by Larry Tester:
Oh my god! It happened again, but this time I ate a curry chicken pie. Filling is not a factor. It’s the PASTRY that’s disrupting the game.
Comment #2 by J. Random Hacker
Can’t reproduce this. My software wouldn’t crash on a mere menu selection. Please stop reopening this, I’m busy enough without having to sort through these fever-addled ravings.
Status changed: Open → Closed: Testers Smoking Crack
Comment #3 by Larry Tester:
Why are you so mean to us?
Attached: VideoEvidence.avi
Status changed: Reopened
Comment #4 by J. Random Hacker
Recommending that management reduce the crack rations of the test team.
Status changed: Open → Closed: Testers Smoking Crack
Comment #5 by J. Random Hacker
Uh, I think I’ve found a fix.
I was stepping through the menu selection code and accidentally happened to step into the C runtime. Luckily Magic Kev was walking past. He caught a glimpse of the disassembly window. Something in that asm freaked him right out – he came to an abrupt stop, pointed at the listing and was shrieking “NO! NO! NO!” over and over until we managed to force-feed him his epilepsy pills.
When I took a closer look I realised I was looking at malloc, the non-threadsafe version. Turns out there was a mix-up in the project settings a couple of weeks ago. Magic Kev was right again. How does he do it??
Status changed: Fixed
I’m terribly sorry and obviously I’m rescinding my recommendation to management about crack. Test team crack rations should be maintained at their current levels, if not greatly increased.
