Game crash on every Miranda IM message

(Fireball) #1

Using Miranda Instant Messenger (http://www.miranda-im.org), Brink crashes everytime I receive an instant message from anyone (MSN for example).

Any way to get the attention of SD devels?

(FireWorks) #2

Wow now thats interesting! I wonder how this happening. Do you use an overlay?

(Fireball) #3

Apart from Steam, none.

I collected my latest crash dumps:

http://www.zerouptime.ch/files/brink-crashes3.7z

(Fireball) #4

It’s not only Miranda IM which crashes it, if there was a patch recently (last day?), then it must be since then.

I’m crashing average every 15 minutes…it makes me wanna bite into the desk plate.

EDIT: I had Steam verifying my game cache and it re-downloaded about 2 GB (probably the whole game) and then, after I restarted Steam (game wouldn’t start first), it started downloading again for 15 minutes, which is probably the patch which I never received before.

Could it be, that there be some problem with Steam update distribution?

(FireWorks) #5

The last patch was about a week ago.

Some users also had problem with steam itself. Reinstalling helped sorting out some issues.

(Skual) #6

It is interesting to see that some IM create crashes.

I had a friend who had his game constantly crashing to desktop shortly after joining a game. Yesterday, we finally found out that he had in his Mumble options the “overlay” set to active (even if no profile was created for Brink). Deactivating the overlay fixed his crashes.

conclusion: it seems that brink has problems to handle overlays and popup windows

(FireWorks) #7

A nice find with the mumble overlay and thanks for posting it!

My TS3 overlay works out nice:)