found a huge issue in the new release (0.44.0 release)

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found a huge issue in the new release (0.44.0 release)

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now in-game rain is cancer for ram, I've experienced this in balmora and suran, both places were raining, both times like a fast moving cancer, it ate my ram so quickly and so completely, there wasn't even any left to Ctrl+Alt+F1 to kill it in htop. ultimate result is death of the computer, had to hard reboot to recover each time.


oh, and it's possible to sleep in the streets of balmora.



OS: Mint 19 tara
CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K @ 4x 3.8GHz
GPU: GeForce GTX 960
RAM: 2246MiB / 7924MiB
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Re: found a huge issue in the new release

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Just to rule it out: did you have any mods loaded when you experienced this? If so, does the same thing still happen with only the core game?
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Re: found a huge issue in the new release (0.44.0 release)

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I can't confirm either of these issues with the daily PPA.
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Re: found a huge issue in the new release (0.44.0 release)

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exact same loadout as yesterday, pre 0.44.0 with no issue, but I'll try reloading the last save with all the mods off


with absolutely clean loadout, just morrowind, tribunal, bloodmoon esms:
couldn't sleep in the streets of balmora again, but I couldn't with the mods the other day either. couldn't test the rain thing, I travelled all over the silt strider network and waited several in-game days, no rain
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Re: found a huge issue in the new release (0.44.0 release)

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You can use ChangeWeather console command to start rain.
Also there is RAM issue with Distant Land: https://gitlab.com/OpenMW/openmw/issues/4530
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Re: found a huge issue in the new release (0.44.0 release)

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The second link appears to be broken.

I don't see any problem with rain on current master in my current playthrough - though the current weather is actually "5" (Thunder) rather than "4" (Rain).

The suggested "ChangeWeather" command appears to be broken. See earlier discussion at viewtopic.php?t=1511 - although Scrawl indicates it was fixed, it appears to have reverted.

There appears to be a problem with "resting in cities" - although the messagebox indicates that resting is illegal, the player can go ahead and rest anyway, with no apparent penalty. Tested in Balmora and Vivec, in master. This appears to be the situation at least as far back as 0.42.

I don't currently have a working Windows installation, so I can't compare with MW behaviour.

Pressing "F3" (repeatedly) captures various graphics-related statistics, which might help diagnose the rain problem if it occurs again.

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Re: found a huge issue in the new release (0.44.0 release)

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it appears to have reverted.
It works just fine for me on master. Make sure the region you're currently in corresponds to the argument you've set when calling the command.
although the messagebox indicates that resting is illegal, the player can go ahead and rest anyway, with no apparent penalty.
Are you sure the player is resting and not waiting? These are different things.
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Re: found a huge issue in the new release (0.44.0 release)

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Capostrophic wrote: 29 Jul 2018, 11:25
it appears to have reverted.
It works just fine for me on master. Make sure the region you're currently in corresponds to the argument you've set when calling the command.
On re-testing it now works for me. Possibly a mod-clash earlier, though I wasn't using any that I expected to clash. Possibly a typo in the region name, as there appears to be no validity checking -

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Changeweather, "Nowhere",4
is accepted, but does nothing

I will investigate further.

This created the "Rain" weather condition, with no noticeable effect on FPS.
although the messagebox indicates that resting is illegal, the player can go ahead and rest anyway, with no apparent penalty.
Are you sure the player is resting and not waiting? These are different things.
I used the default "T" to rest, it generated the "Resting is illegal here", but allowed me to rest anyway.

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Re: found a huge issue in the new release (0.44.0 release)

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I used the default "T" to rest, it generated the "Resting is illegal here", but allowed me to rest anyway.
Again, make sure you're resting and not waiting. T is used for both things and waiting is not the same as resting. During waiting you are not able to regenerate health and magicka and get random creature/assassin attacks.
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