tundra2: Running against built-in vs2008 deps crashes in debug. about tundra HOT 6 CLOSED

I rebuilt the null renderer. It seems it has some deeper issues as I can not get it working in debug mode, even know that im sure it it built correctly. I dont know what to say other than I am going to disable it from pluginsd.cfg, the main purpose for this is to run it with production (release mode) servers anyway so no biggie imo.

I'll have to find a proper solution later.

Btw. Debug mode Tundra.exe --headless runs fine with it being disabled. Somehow it borks on headed mode, I looked for asserts in there but could not find any. The call stack with only null renderer loading shows some malloc call last where it crashes.

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Is this really resolved? At least the null renderer plugin is still disabled in pluginsd.cfg.

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ah, well better re-check i figure, was interpreting the comments that is. there were many old resolved issues, and >10 pages of issues, so was trying to get the situation up-to-date

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Yes that sounds like a good idea :) I'll get a debug build going and test if it still crashes.

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Yes it still crashes. RenderSystem_Null incorrectly initializes its hardware buffer manager in the contstructor or the plugin, meaning it does it when the plugin is loaded. This however does not mean it will get used. This should be easily fixed to change the init to _initialize() like it is correctly done eg. in the DX render plugin. This way only the selected rendersystem will make the signleton hardware buffer manager.

This is the reason the actually used render system will crash in the singleton init as it has already been set once by null renderer, as there is a assert in debug mode. The situation here can also (didn't look further) cause unexpected thing when freeing the ptrs when the plugins are unloaded, also in release mode so it definitely should be fixed.

Singleton init incorrectly: http://code.google.com/p/realxtend-tundra-deps/source/browse/RenderSystem_Null/NullRenderSystem.cpp?name=sources#37
Should be done here: http://code.google.com/p/realxtend-tundra-deps/source/browse/RenderSystem_Null/NullRenderSystem.cpp?name=sources#367

Additionally whoever will do this (I can prolly do it after the release is 2.3.3 admino release is out). Null the ptr in ctor and null check delete the ptr in dtor. One can easily inspect here how to do it properly: https://bitbucket.org/clb/ogre-safe-nocrashes/src/ecb52aa39927/RenderSystems/Direct3D9/src/OgreD3D9RenderSystem.cpp

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Closing as prebuilt dependencies are no longer supported.

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