Emulator

Correction to What steps will reproduce the problem? :

Not just run, but play. But sometimes emulator crashes when player doesn't do any
action too.

Correction to What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? :

Not "particularly" 2195 IL, but "for example".

Hello,

I have the same problem as 242, emulator crashes randomly (as it seems). My
operating system is sp3/32bit. Help!)

Strange thing, beacuse it does'n crash for me, win32 xp sp3 - rev 2195 and 2276.
Those crashes must be related to certain settings.

fagoatse, thanks for the comment.

try15core, who made the comment above you, actually had the crashes on SP2, not on
SP3 (at least so far). He just has installed sp3 recently and reported that he had 2
play sessions for 1-1,5 hours each, and the game hasn't crashed so far. So it can be
only SP2 and below problem after all. AFAIR, SP3 installs a newer version of
ntdll.dll, and that could fix the problem. But I'm not sure.

How many hours have you played RE on SP3?

A guy just reported that he has exactly same issue on Vista. Heck.

are u using opengl or dx plugin? opengl plugin has been having a mem leak.

ChaosCode, OpenGL as pretty much everyone else (in this game at least, because it's
unplayable with d3d). The thing is that many people don't have the crashes, that's
what baffles me, they're able to finish the game without a single crash, I have about
30-50 of them while playing, f.e. yesterday 5-9 sudden crashes with that error in the
lab alone. As it seem now, in majority of cases the issue concerns people on xp32, I
may be wrong, but it's my observations so far. Only 1 person reported about the
crashes on Vista with the same error (ntdll:
RtlAllocateHeap/RtlInitializeCriticalSection)so far, while I know at least 4 people
on xp having exactly same issue.

Installed SP3.

Nothing changed, crashed after ~15 minutes with the same error:

Unhandled Exception
Code: 0xC0000005
Call stack info:
ntdll!0x7C910193 : RtlAllocateHeap
DolphinWxIL!0x00569D9C : ?
DolphinWxIL!0x00517EB5 : ?
0x32202020 : ?

As ChaosCode hinted, It could be related to the memory leak, so if the OS cannot
allocate memory because there's not enough, it might as well cause crashes.
How much RAM do you have ?

sl1nk3.s, I have 2GB.

Many people experience the crashes, while many others not. You may be right, may be
only those with enough RAM (4Gb or more) don't experience them.

Yesterday I played RE for 3 hours without a single crash (absolute record for me),
the only changes I made - turned off External Frame Buffer (I had it turned on to
play fullscreen) and turned on Stretch to fit. Could it help against crashes? I doubt
it though, probably I was just lucky yesterday, I'll play with the same settings
today and report back.

Yeah XFB with DC is dangerous and unstable.

Now I doubt it was XFB or DC, because I turned them on agian, and it doesn't crash still.

But the matter of fact is that the crashes suddenly stopped.
3 days without crashes at all, 8-10 hours in the game. It cannot be just cast of the
die, as average time without crash was earlier (during 2 weeks) 15-30 minutes. Pure
mysticism as for me.

Something of this could help, that's what I did between the "crashing period" and
moment RE1 unexpectedly stopped to crash:

1. Upgraded to Service Pack 3. However after I restart the computer (requested by SP3
   install) and tried RE, it still crashed after 15 minutes. However it stopped to crash
   on the next day. So if we suppose that it's SP3 that helped, we must also suppose
   that cold restart after SP3 install is needed. And that's quite strange. Also, maybe
   only save (I mean typewriter) made with SP3 installed started to work properly, i.e.
   when I loaded from the old save made with SP2 it crashed, but after I stopped to use
   old saves the game stopped to crash. Again, unlikely hyphotesis.

2. Now I don't quite remember, but somewhere at the moment when the game stopped to
   crash, I as well stopped to try and save using savestates. Perhaps the game saved
   "officially" through typewriter if player quickloaded OR even only quicksaved before
   during the game becomes corrupted... But again, it's not the new game that stopped to
   crash, I was in the middle of Chris campaign when it stopped to crash, and I used to
   quicksave my progress in the game in the first part and saved the game with the
   typewriters.

Everything else stayed the same: emulator's build, game and emulator settings,
drivers, computer components.

#2 is unlikely at all, now when I think about it, as the game crashed like hell even
when I didn't know anything about savestates. I now think that it's either SP3+cold
restart that helped or only saves made with SP3 installed are safe.

XTra.KrazzY, but as I wrote in the previous post the game kept crashing even when I
didn't know anything about savestates, and I didn't use them back then all!

The problem went away on the next day after I installed Service Pack 3, even though
it crashed one more time on the day I installed it. IF SP3 helped, either warm
restart wasn't enough somehow and cold restart was needed, or it stopped to crash
only after I loaded from the save (typewriter) made with SP3 already installed.

So, as for now, it's not yet apparent why it stopped to crash.

It's crashed one more time today, after 8-10 hours without a single crash during 3
previous days. But it was the end of the game, so I finished it already.

I'll replay the game again from the start and report.

Started the new game, played for 2 days, 6-8 hours since the start, no more crashes.

You can close the issue, but I'm still not sure what exactly cured the crashes.