Talcum/Troubleshooting

Moulagain crashes without a stackdump during the in-game download

Cause: This can happen if the avi folder doesn't exist and it is downloading avi files through the in-game downloader. (It creates the dat and sfx folders at startup but not avi for some reason.) So we need to have an avi folder in the client download.

Solution:

• Make sure you're using Drizzle29 or newer
• Create a text file called c:\talcum\DataserverSourceFiles\avi\readme.txt (It doesn't need anything in it.)
• Create a text file called c:\talcum\DataserverSourceFiles\DrizzleDataserverOverrides.txt (This is a file that tells Drizzle to associate certain files with certain Ages.)
• Inside this DrizzleDataserverOverrides.txt file, put the following line:

/avi/readme.txt{->}client.mfs

• (This makes sure that the client will create the avi folder before it gets to the in-game downloader.)
• Run the dataserver generator again
• (It should now download the readme.txt file during the client download so that the avi folder exists for the in-game avi downloads.)

Stackdumps

Exception type: Access violation
Call stack (14 levels):
 0x008BF988
  0x0045723C
   0x004571E3
    0x0045633D
     0x007F77A1
      0x00506E5F
       0x00553CE4
        0x005533A6
         0x004568D1
          0x007F6F74
           0x007F6B43
            0x007F65D0
             0x7C350609
              0x7C343305

Cause: broken manifest with extra slashes, which looks like: dat/a.prp -> /dat/a.prp

Solution: use Drizzle29 or newer