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There are some rooms which, if ever previewed, either by selecting it at Restore screen or entering it from the hold, the game crashes.

Rooms with this problem that I've stumbled on:
Somewhere Under the Ocean: Entrance
Security Gates: Entrance, 2W and 3W

drod-tss.err says this:
Assertion error in line 4488 of .\BitmapManager.cpp: "pSurface->pixels"


Looking at the offending rooms and guessing from the error log, it seems that this animating gear NPC is the cause of the problem:


Also, due to the rooms crashing, some challenges are currently unreachable.

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11-19-2016 at 11:32 AM
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Same problem here, after entering Somewhere Under the Ocean I immediately crash. Entering "change location" or "restore" menu also crashes if another hold isn't selected.

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Actually, I have no problem at all with these rooms, from the restore screen I see all the gears moving, everything works fine. I have version 5.1.0.6512 for Windows.

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Red-XIII wrote:
Actually, I have no problem at all with these rooms, from the restore screen I see all the gears moving, everything works fine. I have version 5.1.0.6512 for Windows.
5.1.0.6512 is the non-Steam version. This bug occurs in Steam version, which should have a version number of 5.1.0.6540.
11-19-2016 at 04:38 PM
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My game is now unplayable due to this bug. My game saved at the black screen with the typical builder conversation. Every time I load it, I see the conversation, then a crash.
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I have the same problem.

MarkL wrote:
My game is now unplayable due to this bug. My game saved at the black screen with the typical builder conversation. Every time I load it, I see the conversation, then a crash.
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Same problem here :( ... seems, that i am unable to play the game anylonger, because "resume" wants to load "under the ocean". The game also crashes when selecting "restore" from the menu.

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Yikes! Sorry about the trouble here. I'll work to resolve this asap.

Can someone post or PM me a link to a saved game that either reproduces the problem or is close to the problem location, with instructions on how to reproduce it from that point?

Thanks so much!

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I received a player file. Thanks so much! This should be sufficient for me to investigate. I'll fix this asap.

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I figured this out. It's an obscure issue triggered with SDL2 related to how we load PNG images with transparency enabled, causing the pixel buffer for the image to be removed from access because RLE was being requested. (I guess these gears have an alpha layer configured.)

I had to dig into the guts of the SDL2 codebase to figure this out, but in the end it turned out to be a one-line fix.

This issue is technically also in GatEB and RPG, though I'm not sure whether any user-made holds include these gears yet. I'll provide a fix for each of these and upload them to Steam presently.

Edit: uploaded

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mrimer wrote:
This issue is technically also in GatEB and RPG, though I'm not sure whether any user-made holds include these gears yet. I'll provide a fix for each of these and upload them to Steam presently.
I don't recall any published holds using them, but there are rooms in Entry Point which uses those gears, and I just tested in GatEB and indeed a crash has triggered as well.

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uncopy2002 wrote:
mrimer wrote:
This issue is technically also in GatEB and RPG, though I'm not sure whether any user-made holds include these gears yet. I'll provide a fix for each of these and upload them to Steam presently.
I don't recall any published holds using them, but there are rooms in Entry Point which uses those gears, and I just tested in GatEB and indeed a crash has triggered as well.
Thanks for confirming. I've uploaded a new Windows build. Please try again.

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mrimer wrote:
uncopy2002 wrote:
mrimer wrote:
This issue is technically also in GatEB and RPG, though I'm not sure whether any user-made holds include these gears yet. I'll provide a fix for each of these and upload them to Steam presently.
I don't recall any published holds using them, but there are rooms in Entry Point which uses those gears, and I just tested in GatEB and indeed a crash has triggered as well.
Thanks for confirming. I've uploaded a new Windows build. Please try again.
Just confirmed that the gears no longer cause crashes in rooms that use them.

Verifying the fix in RPG would be hard since I don't know what would trigger the bug there, but I guess if TSS and GatEB is fine, it should be fine there as well.

Edit: I think a news should be posted at the steam community hub for TSS since lots of players have been waiting so long there.

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11-30-2016 at 05:59 PM
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Can confirm the problem with the gears is solved in steam (5.1.0.6545) in my save.

but still have some beeps when I'm in the world map and some places aren't shown in Akandia and Ephelna .
drod-tss.err tells me this:
Assertion error in line 544 of .\DrodBitmapManager.cpp: "!"Unrecognized image format""



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It would be best to post a new thread for that problem, to be sure it gets attention.
11-30-2016 at 07:20 PM
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The problem is basically this one after search a bit:
http://forum.caravelgames.com/viewtopic.php?TopicID=38490
going to follow the steps and hope it works.
11-30-2016 at 08:54 PM
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You might also want to post something in your news. When you get an update in Steam for TSS and click view updates you get a blank page. It should explain what the update fixes for those who don't look at forums but ran into the bug.
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mrimer wrote:
I figured this out. It's an obscure issue triggered with SDL2 related to how we load PNG images with transparency enabled, causing the pixel buffer for the image to be removed from access because RLE was being requested. (I guess these gears have an alpha layer configured.)

I had to dig into the guts of the SDL2 codebase to figure this out, but in the end it turned out to be a one-line fix.

This issue is technically also in GatEB and RPG, though I'm not sure whether any user-made holds include these gears yet. I'll provide a fix for each of these and upload them to Steam presently.

Edit: uploaded

Did you fix it in the other Builds as well? I am still at 5.1.0.6540 on Mac OS X and it still crashes :(

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I'm still seeing this on OS X. Is there a fix or workaround? As far as I can see, I can't continue with The Second Sky at all due to this bug.

My DROD version is 5.1.0.6540. Error message from OS X (long):
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