Integer overflow crash

Q · #1 October 26th, 2002, 04:25 PM

I just had a game crash when I attacked with a huge fighter group (about 300 in one group!) an enemy satellite group (about 80 sats). In strategic combat the game froze and the error message "integer overflow" showed up.
I had to restart the game from the Last savegame and repeat the combat with a smaller fighter group. Then everything was fine.
Anyone seen similar problems (Version 1.78)? Is there a maximum number of fighters in one group?

Baron Munchausen · #2 October 26th, 2002, 11:41 PM

If you can duplicate this error please email your savegame to MM and explain how to duplicate it. There have been problems like this in the past but we thought they were fixed.

Q · #3 October 27th, 2002, 07:51 AM

There is something wrong with very large fighter Groups. I could not reproduce the "integer overflow" crash until now, but try once a fight with 300-400 large fighters in one group against 100 large sats in the combat simulator: after the first shot and the destruction of some 50 fighters the group had no supplies left! I used the Abbidon AI designs in a test game with high starting tech level and let the simulation run on "Auto". So you don't even need a savegame to verify this for SE IV Gold Version 1.78.

dreamplace · #4 August 26th, 2003, 05:35 PM

I got the "integer overflow" error on PBW game: Pukes FURBALL IV.

Last turn, I got 2500 large fighters in one single group with 300 ships at one sector.
My partner got 2500 fighters located at the same sector with 200 ships.
I gave my carriers order to go there to launch some more fighters this turn.

I can load up this turn, but when I try to select that system, SE4 give me an "integer overflow" error, then it hang.

Any suggestion?

geoschmo · #5 August 26th, 2003, 05:43 PM

Dreamplace, MayaMax is reporting the same thing in the Furball game. I'll look into it and see if I can figure anything out.

Geoschmo

dreamplace · #6 August 26th, 2003, 06:25 PM

Thank you, geoschmo.

The Last emery empire has been destoryed by MayaMax this turn. Alliance will not hold any longer, it's just him or me. We are about to start fighting, please please tell me how to solve this "integer overflow" problem.

[ August 26, 2003, 17:26: Message edited by: dreamplace ]