CJO Games Posted October 26, 2023 Share Posted October 26, 2023 I noticed that I had multiple instances of editor.exe; preview.exe and that they had pushed my cpu useage up to 100% - I think these were from previous running of the game engine and had been left over when I'd experienced crashes. I was able to close all of these through the task manager. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted October 26, 2023 Share Posted October 26, 2023 Occasionally I have seen the preview app hang, although it has not occurred in the more recent builds for me (the last couple of weeks). It might be an improvement if the preview generator gets launched to do a folder at a time. Right now it communicates with the editor back and forth via the CLI. Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJO Games Posted February 13 Author Share Posted February 13 The engine is still continually crashing to desktop with an associated Preview.exe hang that is gobbling up resources on the CPU and RAM. This is usually as a result of adding textures to a material or adding material to a model and can occur on various types of texture and model formats. The preview.exe hang is particularly problematic as it is acting like a resource drain and has been causing my PC to hang even after the editor and/or client are closed - the only way to stop preview.exe after a crash to desktop is to force close through windows Task Manager. The crash to desktop is frustrating as any work up to that point is lost and is causing corruption of my maps meaning they will no longer open in the editor so hours of work are going missing or are lost. Cutting.zip Mountains and tarns 2048.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 Hi, what GPU do you have? Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJO Games Posted February 14 Author Share Posted February 14 Hi Josh, it is an MSI GTX 1650 4gb (ddr6) please see attached the Nvidia driver system information: NVIDIA System Information 02-14-2024 09-12-50.txt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 14 Share Posted February 14 Okay, thanks, and this is version 0.9.4 of the editor, right? Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJO Games Posted February 14 Author Share Posted February 14 I'm on the dev channel so which ever version that is. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJO Games Posted February 15 Author Share Posted February 15 Please see attached for an example of this issue at its worst - note the high cpu useage and number of open preview.exe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Are you saying that the editor crashing is related to the preview app not closing? How do you know these things are related? Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJO Games Posted February 15 Author Share Posted February 15 I'm not sure how its related but I'm relatively certain that preview.exe shouldn't be running that many times(x4) when one instance of the client and one instance of the editor are running. What I can tell you is that this occurs when (as explained above) the editor crashes to desktop when adding materials to models or textures to materials or adding models to a map or adding textures or materials to maps or anything that seems to involve the preview.exe is invoked. Does that help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted February 15 Share Posted February 15 Yes, that is a bit more clear, thank you. I am working on something that I believe may solve this issue automatically. 1 Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJO Games Posted March 6 Author Share Posted March 6 I know this is (hopefully - fingers crossed) going to be helped by the upcoming update but I thought it would be useful to let you know that I have narrowed down the cause of this to creating materials from textures. It's not something that happens all the time and it isn't contingent on a specific set of textures (as far as I can tell it doesn't matter where they come from). To reproduce try (for instance) the Modbuilder pack from the Leadwerks workshop or the Port pack from the Leadwerks workshop and choose any of the textures and create a material from one of them. The chances are it'll work fine but if you work with the engine for long enough it will crash to desktop but preview.exe will remain open in the background and will need to be force-closed. Hopefully that is a little more clear... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Preview.exe has been rebuilt and may work better now. Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJO Games Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 Sorry Josh but it has made no difference to me - I am still getting the crash to desktop and preview hang and it still appears to be corrupting maps - this is in the 0.9.5 version. Attached is a map I worked on yesterday which, although opens would appear to be corrupt as there is nothing there at all. The hang is caused when creating materials or working with materials in other ways (such as for instance applying them to a model or opening a model that has previously been wrapped). WoodenFort.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiderPig Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 I was going to see if this happens for me too but I tried your map file and it didn't load for me. I mean it didn't do anything, it's like the editor ignores it. Is it missing assets or are they included in the file? I don't know how the map system works, I don't use them much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJO Games Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 It should load with or without the assets and only load what is available to the engine as a default ( the CSG built boxes) of which there are quite a few because of the way I build maps. The assets aren't necessary and I can't attach as my assets are proprietary. Like you though, I get nothing - its as though the JSON is being ignored by the engine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpiderPig Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 Oh okay. Yeah, I get the exact same problem. No errors or anything it's just ignored. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJO Games Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 I opened up the JSON and found that some of the braces were incorrect - or at least the closing braces were missing. Unfortunately, fixing these errors didn't allow the map to open. I think the crash to desktop is obviously causing some alteration to the JSON file which prevents it from actually loading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted March 14 Share Posted March 14 If you edit a map file by hand you will destroy its contents, because there is some binary data at the end. Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CJO Games Posted March 14 Author Share Posted March 14 It was already destroyed Josh, so that point is somewhat moot... The point was the missing braces - not the contents - if the braces are missing in the map that won't open but not from those that do then that suggests a problem writing to the JSON file - hence the fact that it wouldn't open in the editor. The editing of the JSON file was, instead, to prove to myself that editing it couldn't make a difference. I hope that makes sense and isn't distracting from the original issue I raised at the top of the page as I think that is the more important part of this chain - namely, that the Preview.exe is still causing a hang and its rebuild hasn't solved anything - in fact it would have appeared to have made matters worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Josh Posted April 8 Share Posted April 8 A bug was fixed that would cause launched processes to hang. This may resolve your issue with the preview tool. Quote My job is to make tools you love, with the features you want, and performance you can't live without. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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