“Sabiyhan” System Search Crash Mystery
- Thread starter Danger Investigates
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Good luck with your private little secret quest you've got going on there, I hope it pans out for you, and I look forward to reading your "Look what we found" thread. If IRL's too busy, tell your boss you've got to self isolate for ten days and smash the life out of your tinfoil quest
I thought those crash codes were either Frontier trying to subliminally sell us paint jobs, or Faulcon de Lacy trying to sell us more ships?
Surely the fact its crashing when it looks for results suggests it is indeed, as you say, an index issue, it finds something that is invalid and goes to load it up and falls flat on its face, rather than find something and play a "Tada!" sound file?
I think this would be difficult to do, as you'd need to intercept the game's request for files from the OS, and correlate that to the galmap search. There is also the possibility that the entire section of sound library / galmap database gets loaded to memory hen the CMDR opens the galmap. It would be possible to see if the galmap database is kept on disk or loaded to memory by running the game in a window, and also having even the simple windows resource meter runnign and looking for a spike in disk usage at the moment galmap is loaded, and or a spike in dsk usage when “Sabiyhan” is searched for just before the crash to desktop.
No offense meant mick, and this isn't a member of the "PC Master Race" bashing on y'all "Console Scrubs", but as a console player you simply don't have access to the software we do on the PC platform. The Thargoid picture was created by running an audio recording application in the background alongside the game, and the recodring was put through a spectrum analyser which displays a graphical representation of the sound files. You'll know the sort of thing, a simple example is if you look at the videos on the frontier store for the COVAS, when the voice speaks the little graphs move like the bars on a graphics equiliser from a eighties hifi, well the software that makes the thargoid pictures is just a higher resolution version of that kind of thing. While you could record stuff to your xbox replay/dvr thing, I don't think there are any audio editing programs for the XB1?Yea that's beyond me. Idk know how to look at the Thargoid sensor image and we're supposed to do that
I don't have a carrier, but I was tempted to buy one and name it “Sabiyhan” for the grins and giggles of minorly trolling y'all...
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You should google the creation of the name shinrarta dhezra, its quasi words from a few languages. Similarly I name my ships in quasilatin, because imperial = roman empire, I've got a syntax I want to stick to and I have a meaning for the name I want to give the ships so I bash the closest latin words to fit my syntax.
My first assumption would be that the audio engine runs in a different thread or uses external libraries and is just the thing the crash report points to after ṷ́ͅn̵̫̞̘͙̥d̵e̷̪̗̘͇͍̣̼f̞͈͙̙͚̻i̴͉̤͇͕̙̖ͅṇ̛̳͔̭̺̩ẹ̕ḍ̗͉͖̩̦ ̲͉̞͔be̙̯h̢͈a̯͔̝̣̙͎v̸ͅi̳̗̜͎͍̫̟͠o̞͞u̸͍̜r̗͔̩͔̹͟ happens instead of the actual cause.
Pardon?
If his transmission is getti̴n̶g̵ ̴c̵o̶r̵r̴u̴p̵t̶e̶d̷,̷ ̵h̸e̴ m̵̕ͅư̴͔s̴̭̋ẗ̷̵͓͙́̂ b̷͐͜ĕ̶̩ ̸̳̈g̴e̸t̸t̷i̶n̴g̶ ̸ ̷͈̟̋n̸̲̦̋̉e̸͚̫͋͂a̴͖͊͒r̶̛͚̝̈́é̷͎̣̔ŕ̴̬͝ ̸͙̯͊t̵̻̓o̷̙͍̟̟̹͎͔͎͕̳̲͘ ̸̭͒̓̋͋͗͘͠S̷̡̡̨̙͖̯̥͓̤̮̈́̓̓̈̄͌̉a̷̧̖̝͛̇̅̚͜b̸͕̗̼̰̲̈́͋͜i̴͎̊y̸͍͉̫̳͔̌̇̅̆h̶̹͔̋̈͐̑͘ä̷̪̍͌̊͋̈́̇̿̅̌̈͊͗͘n̴̹̼̙̯̫͓͕̣͖̖̙̠̩̝̳̝̦͇̪̫̒̎͐̂̀̋͌̏̈́̽͊̍̐̍͘̚̕͝!̸̡̪̯̟͎̫̫̖͓̗̰̘̜̐̒͊̎̓̓̒̒͊̋̽̕͘!̵̞̬̜̼̗̘̣̝̃̚!̸͇̗̝̟̮̜̤̀̀̓̅̓͗̌̅̽̏̍̀͐̀̈́̔͘͘̕͘͝
what space game??
this is probably the most likely explanation but the ultimate reason might still be depressingly trivial. any attempt of accessing uninitialized memory could produce such a crash. the name has indeed something special to it as it consistently reproduces it but the cause could be anything from a missing resource, some leftover of development or testing, some placeholder for future use, to a corrupt database entry for that system.
as a speculation motivator it's the best we have had in months, though!
Except if you only use your cheats to insta-kill npcs in solo and use your bots for all that pesky trade gameplay. Then you're basically fine.
the above basically negates any purpose to powerplay as killing npcs is a primary way to undermine / succeed in CZ's - as is trucking certain commodities to locations.
It was so fun operating tours to last dungeon, helping very low level get their first star while they were not supposed to even be able to get there...
Well, if they really want to catch the botters (and all sorts of cheating) they surely can. Text taken from frontier site (i bolded the relevant part)
Could this be an untraceable method of "Combat Logging"? Not that I would ever promote this kind of activity…
It would be a perfectly "Game Legal" exit, yes.... After all the player is in the process of setting a High-Wake system
combat logging is detected as a pattern of behavior. Not a one off. So if you disconnect for any reason and it mysteriously happens when you're in a certain hostile situation and not really any other time. then you'd be flagged as combat logging (assuming they do that to anyone anyway)
It's been a while, but I've seen more than one forum post complaining about getting slapped on the wrist from Frontier for pve clogging.
Well, I may get my wrist slapped for saying this, but I ONLY play in SOLO mode (about 3,000 hours so far) so those tactics don't interest me anyway...
you gotta feel pity for the garbage skill a player has to have to combat log from an npc - especially considering how nearly all hostile npc interactions are opt-in. It's too bad there isn't an in-game list of shame for dishonorable pilots.
StarCraft.
No, cow level was from Diablo. Not a space game..
'there is no cow level' was one of the cheat codes in StarCraft as well.