A new type of crash? I need help.

[tlstkwjr]

1. When this crash occurs, the game freezes for a few seconds for one or two players. If they chat during this freeze, it will be visible to other players.

2. after a few seconds, the freezed players will leave the game, not with a client termination or a fatal error report, but simply with the game results window.

3. It doesn't happen when a specific script is running, it's random, and it happens to different players, so it doesn't seem to be a computer spec or internet issue.

4. No error reports or error files are generated.

Is this a desync? or new type of crash?

 

[Dr Super Good]

I think this is a desync. Reforged behaviour is to boot the players from the game in the case of a desync if I recall.

 

[Daffa]

Looks like a desync issue. Any localized (GetLocalPlayer) event happening around these "random" times?

 

[tlstkwjr]

Looks like a desync issue. Any localized (GetLocalPlayer) event happening around these "random" times?

Known causes of desync

Introduction Players should be able to differentiate a crash, a player leaving and a player being desynchronized. Desync is the fact that one or more player gets disconnected from a online multiplayer game. It's caused by differences in the game state between the game clients. Below I tried...

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I've reviewed all of the functions in this link and none of them are used or associated with the crash moment. I've removed the only suspect, a unit selection related function, but the same crash happened again after that.

I've been trying to eliminate all memory leaks the right way and sometimes it doesn't crash after 2+ hours of play, and considering this crash happened after at least 28 minutes, I don't think it's related to memory leaks.

Also, I had already fixed a desync issue on my map (it was a difference in getlocationz between reforge and classic, and I deleted all getlocationz on my map), and at that time the freeze like in #1 didn't exist, and players were immediately sent to the score screen.

In fact, I don't even know if the moment it desynced was the moment the freeze started or the moment it said players left the game.

Desync caused from FPS Cap in options

Recently i discovered that Desync were caused reguarly when tabbing out of the game because of Maximum Background FPS. i retested this 3 times with another user in the same lobby, when he had the “Background FPS” capped to 10 and tabbed out, it would desync him from the game. When he upped this...

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I'm currently suspecting this and advising players to change their options.

 

[Daffa]

Well, working with Reforged means potential for unforeseen desyncs in my book. I think the freeze is a potential signal for the start of the desync.