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SMBX Level editor randomly crashes

Postby Valentine » Fri Feb 14, 2014 1:39 pm

Ok so this is a freaking annoying thing that keeps happening:
so sometimes when i test the level save my level load a level the editor just randomly stops responding

(i have 3 GB of Ram (2.75 usable or something) and like 250 GB of space and stuff)
it's really annoying... can someone help me (if you need more information on computer somethings just tell me :) )

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Re: SMBX Level editor randomly crashes

Postby Axiom » Fri Feb 14, 2014 4:08 pm

Can you tell us exactly what happens to the smbx.exe process when this happens? Spike in RAM, spike in CPU usage, etc.

Also what types of levels are you trying to test/load? A rediculous amount of custom graphics/music are being used or not?

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Re: SMBX Level editor randomly crashes

Postby Valentine » Fri Feb 14, 2014 5:15 pm

First of nothing happens the level editor just stops responding (basically smbx.exe has stopped working) nothing else just smbx.exe randomly freezes and stops responding (atleast it saves the level when i test it...) it doesn't make any issues to other programs

and i just try to load level which are in process of making (just began to create them) and maybe like 2 or 3 custom graphics and at max 2 custom music tracks

and it's always just random when it freezes
(i don't know if i missed something)

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Re: SMBX Level editor randomly crashes

Postby Axiom » Fri Feb 14, 2014 5:46 pm

Watch task manager and see if there's a spike in resources being used.

Were these levels previously made in older versions of SMBX or created with the current version, do you know?

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Re: SMBX Level editor randomly crashes

Postby Valentine » Sat Feb 15, 2014 5:51 am

they are being created right now... i just started creating them...

ok so i looked at task manager and when it stopped working i had a huge cpu usage spike (from 40% to 15-20% dont know if thats good or bad) and physical memory jumps from 63% to 7X%

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Re: SMBX Level editor randomly crashes

Postby Axiom » Sat Feb 15, 2014 5:42 pm

Bullet Bill wrote:they are being created right now... i just started creating them...

ok so i looked at task manager and when it stopped working i had a huge cpu usage spike (from 40% to 15-20% dont know if thats good or bad) and physical memory jumps from 63% to 7X%
Hmm okay that is weird indeed. Try setting a higher process priority.

Are you saving to internal drive?

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Re: SMBX Level editor randomly crashes

Postby Valentine » Sat Feb 15, 2014 5:58 pm

ok so i set the priority to high and that seems to have made it so it crashes less... i think

and the second thing you were talking about... well i didn't understand it

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Re: SMBX Level editor randomly crashes

Postby TLtimelord » Sun Feb 16, 2014 1:53 am

This seems surprising, since whenever I do anything, my CPU usage goes up to around 90% to the least.

To keep your crashing at a minimum from now on, try keeping as few things open on your desktop as well, that should help from keeping your computer from trying to run so many things at once.

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Re: SMBX Level editor randomly crashes

Postby Valentine » Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:29 am

Well... i usually have only smbx open and everything else minimzed (everything else=skype and google chrome)

also does it matter that i have a 64bit computer?

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Re: SMBX Level editor randomly crashes

Postby Axiom » Sun Feb 16, 2014 3:36 pm

Bullet Bill wrote:skype
That right there is your problem I believe. Skype's a resource hog

As for 64 bit, that should help it since yano 64-bit allows more memory on Windows

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Re: SMBX Level editor randomly crashes

Postby Valentine » Sun Feb 16, 2014 5:42 pm

well i tried running it without skype open and... well it had the same outcome crashed!!!...

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Re: SMBX Level editor randomly crashes

Postby zioy » Wed Jul 30, 2014 8:37 pm

It's just the editor, not the game itself? Yeah, this happens to me sometimes. Super annoying, but I've found that pressing Alt+F4 right when the music randomly stops helps keep the crash time low. Though saving usually crashes it further for some reason.

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Re: SMBX Level editor randomly crashes

Postby lighthouse64 » Thu Jul 31, 2014 12:01 am

Little Boo wrote:Well... i usually have only smbx open and everything else minimzed (everything else=skype and google chrome)

also does it matter that i have a 64bit computer?
Even with the other things minimized it could make things slow. Did you have multiple tabs open in google chrome???

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Re: SMBX Level editor randomly crashes

Postby Valentine » Thu Jul 31, 2014 8:11 am

Guys i fixed this problem a while ago, no need to keep this up XD

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Re: SMBX Level editor randomly crashes

Postby lighthouse64 » Thu Jul 31, 2014 8:13 am

Little Boo wrote:Guys i fixed this problem a while ago, no need to keep this up XD
Really... :P man. Well thx for telling us.


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