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Various ScriptErrors

Post by Sarah_Sims » March 10th, 2018, 1:23 pm

I've just uploaded some ScriptErrors from ErrorTrap, Careers & Story Progression.

I know the ErrorTrap one has something to do with Zerbu's Ultimate Careers but what exactly? Is it just a routing error?

The three errors from Careers happened when I was trying to make Sammie Dent reapply for his old job at the Police Station Rabbithole Building. The interaction just dropped from his queue the first time so I tried again and the same thing happened. Then I replaced the rabbithole building with a rabbithole rug but got the same error again.

The Story Progression error popped up a little while after that. No idea what was going on in the game at the time, sorry.

Could someone please tell me what's going on?

Many thanks! :-)

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Post by igazor » March 10th, 2018, 6:38 pm

Hi there, Sarah! The SP error doesn't seem related. It's a stack overflow error on a recruitment scenario that the Gigolo SP Personality module is trying to run. Usually these are harmless if they are one-offs and things correct themselves later. Does it keep recurring?

But yes, the Angler trying to join the police career repeatedly erroring out as well as the child trying to play chess in school all seem to be Zerbu mod related. Will have to wait for Chain to add any further insight there.

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Post by Sarah_Sims » March 10th, 2018, 6:49 pm

OK, thanks igazor! No, the SP error doesn't keep recurring - that's the first time I've seen it.

I'm not sure if I actually have Zerbu's UC mod activated on the Police Station building or not. Will try to go in-game to check but I'm having trouble loading the last save atm. I forgot to mention above, when I tried to save the game after all those errors, I had an Error Code 12! Haven't seen one of them in years. :-)

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Post by igazor » March 10th, 2018, 7:03 pm

Since I can't really comment on the career error (except to ask if you have Shimrod's mod that preserves job levels in play, it could be acting up on the police career), I would say that outrageous RAM usage and an Error12 after such a stack overflow would not be very unusual. Some process there got stuck trying to run a Personality recruitment routine that was too much for the mod and the game to handle. Usually such processes give up or error out before things get too carried away but maybe not this time.

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Post by Sarah_Sims » March 10th, 2018, 9:26 pm

Yes I do have that mod of Shimrod's and it was the first thing I thought of that might have caused this. I'm going to disable it and see if that makes a difference. I was watching RAM usage in Task Manager and was confused about the Error 12 because my game was only using approx. 2.6GB just before saving and only about 2.7/2.8GB at the time of saving. So could it have spiked before that then, when the SP error occurred?

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Post by igazor » March 10th, 2018, 10:44 pm

Exactly. It only takes one split second spike into the danger zone to cause an Error12 and I was thinking since they are far from everyday occurrences for you, something like that stack overflow error could have triggered a very brief spike like that.

I've been playing without Shimrod's mod lately precisely because of that issue, it's always with careers that have branches in them like the law enforcement one does. I know that I will miss it and might put it back in later if needed, but I got tired of so many of the branched careers breaking on me like that.

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Post by Sarah_Sims » March 11th, 2018, 9:59 am

Thanks for the explanation on Error 12 igazor.

My game finally loaded and Sammie managed to get his old job back with no problems. So it must have been Shimrod's mod causing the issue. That's a shame it doesn't work in those branched careers. Obviously, I had to use MC to put Sammie back at the right level though but that's no hardship.

Incidentally, Zerbu's UC mod wasn't activated on the Police Station building. :-)

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Post by Chain_Reaction » March 12th, 2018, 1:19 am

Not sure a stack overflow would cause an error 12. I wouldn't worry about it. Just SP trying to run too much at once occasionally.

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Post by Sarah_Sims » March 12th, 2018, 1:08 pm

Okay, thanks Chain! :-)

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