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Sudden BSOD in the new build


KyousukeAzai

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Hi, so I havent been around for a little bit messing around with build 30 modding and what not, recently I've updated the game up to 31.10 and I have ran into a bit of problem...a solid wall rather.

 

The game tends BSOD on me all of sudden, I'm blown away why and started digging around a bit within the .dmp files it seems the game fatal crashes upon not being able to access a certain .ini file which then causes the whole thing to fall over into a BSOD, now I haven't changed anything in my setup at all, all the drivers and everything is absolutely the same as in build 30 which worked without a hitch and now this started happening, I don't know whether there are more people that have/are experiencing this, though I think that BSOD is a big enough reason to throw it here even if its (hopefuly) unique incident.

 

And before anyone asks despite understanding computers on a reasonable level I'm not that savvy when it comes to dump files so dont lynch me if I interpreted it wrong (which is absolutely possible) 

Secondly no, this is an isolated incident only Zomboid is causing the fatal crash, no other game does it neither does my hardware (since the BSOD gave me a heart attack I went ahead and fully stress tested and checked everything)

 

I'm attaching the dump file as well so if anyone knows what exactly is causing it and/or how to fix it, I would appreciate it very much.

Zomboid dump.txt

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The actual BSOD is very quick when and if it happens usually just flashes through or simply the game freezes upon an action and instantly reboots and I'm not exactly thrilled about trying to reproduce the crash.

 

The ini file I believe it keeps referencing is modclass.ini as well as a fatal failure within the Zomboid process by not being able to access it or at least thats what poped up in the dump file both times the crash happened so far. 

Thats as much as I can gather right now, I did do a clean installation + a few updates of the more obscure drivers to see whether something went wrong there, but again trying to reproduce BSODs is risky to say the least.

 

ok quick post edit turns out some (probably the windows) update messed up voltage on my cpu setting much lower than it should be hence causing instability in the system which Zomboid apparently tripped by being a fairly CPU intensive game and inherently causing the BSOD, so really my OC was the mine and Zomboid was the guy that got his legs blown off by it.

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Heya,

I'll get this forwarded to one of the devs this afternoon if none of them have seen it by the time I get home, as it certainly seems serious.

I will say, though, that it shouldn't be possible for PZ to BSOD you. When this happens in games, it tends to be because they're accessing a specific fiction that has a fault in it on your system, whether that be a hardware problem or a driver corruption or whatever. It's certainly not impossible that it's the game, just unlikely- but we'll definitely look into it.

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Well my best guess, is that something in the game does not mix well with my pc with this particular build, either that or there is a corrupted file somewhere in the game's folder and it falls over when the game tries to access and it seems its not particularly often used file as sometimes the game will run for 4 - 5 hours without a problem and sometimes it will keel over in 20 minutes. I will do some more digging on my end as well to see what I can come up with. As far as I can recall the only thing that changed I think was one automatic windows update I had done quite a few weeks ago and that is literally it, as far as drivers are concerned, I tend to keep them fairly updated so corruption there shouldnt occur.

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Not sure there is a modclass file unless the game created it at run time. That's a very strange error and probably means it's not the Java-side code causing it, as it'd just throw a SecurityManager or File-related exception and keep going.

Can you try this program: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html

It should show the actual code and related information.

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I will post a full log if it ever happens again, here is hoping it doesnt, since I believe I figured it out and I may have been an idiot and clean swept my pc with a registry cleaner which as people may be aware deletes dump files as well since they are considered a trash file.

 

Well anyway, if it happens again I will probably necropost this thread, but right now, I hope its alright, I'm stress testing my cpu again and will do throughout the night to see whether or not it is stable if it makes it through and the bsod still happens, I will appear here again.

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