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Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone / Re: Slowdown and crashes

« on: March 22, 2012, 09:12:33 PM »

So, today, Adobe released the Photoshop CS6 beta. I installed it. Now the transition crashes are back. (I hadn't installed anything else inbetween my last known working config and now.) Crashed on my way into the street where Sana's is.

Gonna try uninstalling PS6, see whether that fixes things.

edit On uninstall: Nope, no dice -- and it crashed faster! That's pretty weird. Gonna try restarting.
In the meantime, debug data:

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   APPCRASH
  Application Name:   sotes.exe
  Application Version:   1.2.0.0
  Application Timestamp:   4f21f820
  Fault Module Name:   StackHash_f933
  Fault Module Version:   6.1.7601.17725
  Fault Module Timestamp:   4ec49b8f
  Exception Code:   c0000374
  Exception Offset:   000ce6c3
  OS Version:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
  Locale ID:   1033
  Additional Information 1:   f933
  Additional Information 2:   f9333aece02411f5879bd63131c1ab92
  Additional Information 3:   d4d4
  Additional Information 4:   d4d44adc43c367b2a03975c0edc80534

Oh, and I'm on Day 10, I think? Post-moaning, to say it in a way that's not very spoileriffic.

edit On restart: No to this, too. Crashed just as fast as last time (two screens away from the school). Here's the debug data:

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   APPCRASH
  Application Name:   sotes.exe
  Application Version:   1.2.0.0
  Application Timestamp:   4f21f820
  Fault Module Name:   ntdll.dll
  Fault Module Version:   6.1.7601.17725
  Fault Module Timestamp:   4ec49b8f
  Exception Code:   c0000005
  Exception Offset:   0002dfe4
  OS Version:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
  Locale ID:   1033
  Additional Information 1:   2d02
  Additional Information 2:   2d023bd15283ba3f971ee0a9319edad1
  Additional Information 3:   e1bc
  Additional Information 4:   e1bc62a60d85f8f9f73ac0bdabd5b1c7

Interestingly enough, the fault modules seem to be different, yet seem to have the same version and timestamp. Huh...

edit On a system restore:

So turns out uninstalling PSCS6 also screwed up my instance of the Google Japanese IME, so I ended up doing a system restore. The system restore did this, so I figured I'd give FS another try. Turns out it was, once again, unsuccessful (crashed at, once again, two screens away from the school).

Problem signature:
  Problem Event Name:   APPCRASH
  Application Name:   sotes.exe
  Application Version:   1.2.0.0
  Application Timestamp:   4f21f820
  Fault Module Name:   StackHash_f933
  Fault Module Version:   6.1.7601.17725
  Fault Module Timestamp:   4ec49b8f
  Exception Code:   c0000374
  Exception Offset:   000ce6c3
  OS Version:   6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48
  Locale ID:   1033
  Additional Information 1:   f933
  Additional Information 2:   f9333aece02411f5879bd63131c1ab92
  Additional Information 3:   d4d4
  Additional Information 4:   d4d44adc43c367b2a03975c0edc80534

edit Uninstalling and reinstalling that VC++ redist mentioned by my System Restore also doesn't work (another StackHash fault). What the flip.

one last edit Here's my dxdiag stuff; x64 log starts halfway through (headers highlighted).

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Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone / Re: Slowdown and crashes

« on: March 04, 2012, 08:01:07 PM »

Hmmm, I'm curious...

See, my old hard drive - a Seagate Momentus 7200RPM 500GB - ended up failing on me, forcing me to return back to a fresh install of Windows 7 Pro SP1 on a 120GB 5400RPM WD Scorpio.

On the Seagate: I kept on crashing before I got to the cave, period.
On the WD: I finally made it all the way to the second save point trying to speed run from the beginning of the game on a fresh install.

Windowed/Medium settings on both counts. Barely was able to save before I alt-tabbed to another window, came back to find all input frozen, so I just quit there. Gonna go and do further testing tonight after I wrap up some classwork.

I might be barking up the wrong tree here, but I figure it might be worth mentioning...? Not that I expect people to test this, but...

edit So I played two more hours straight, no crashing, prologue finally clear. So, if anyone really, really wants to play Fortune Summoners, try making a partition and perform a clean install of Windows dedicated solely to Fortune Summoners?

edit 2 There's no way this isn't stable after playing for three more hours. Having quite a bit of fun with the game.

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Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone / Re: Crashing whenever i open doors

« on: January 31, 2012, 10:21:51 AM »

So it seems as though the common thread is Win7 x64 on Intel CPUs? Though I'm potentially barking up the wrong tree, here.

Anyway, testing tested various modes for stability in the hopes that one of these will would somehow work; I'll be updating this post as I go.

Fullscreen (Use All VRAM) High: △ (didn't even bother testing it all the way, it's soooo slow)
Fullscreen (Use All VRAM) Med: -
Fullscreen (Use All VRAM) Low: -

Fullscreen (Normal VRAM) High: x
Fullscreen (Normal VRAM) Med: -
Fullscreen (Normal VRAM) Low: -

Fullscreen (Min. VRAM) High: -
Fullscreen (Min. VRAM) Med: -
Fullscreen (Min. VRAM) Low: x

Windowed High: x
Windowed Med: -
Windowed Low: x

Zoom High: -
Zoom Med: x
Zoom Low: x

Yeah, it doesn't look like graphics settings are the problem, here...

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Fortune Summoners: Secret of the Elemental Stone / Re: Crashing whenever i open doors

« on: January 30, 2012, 09:52:03 PM »

Also crashes sporadically here, both on windowed and fullscreen -- unfortunate to know I'm not the only one! Here are my specs, for starters:

Core 2 Duo T7250 @ 2GHz, running Win7 Pro 64-bit, DirectX 11, 4GB RAM
NVidia GeForce 8600M GT, driver ver. 8.17.12.8562 (10/15/11)

When you mention dxdiag info, what are you specifically looking for? It returns no problems on all tests, and the above information is pretty much all it gives...