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When playing on VanessaE's Survival Server, minetest 0.4.8 and the versions before it continually crash. The only thing in the debug.txt with "debug_log_level = 1" is Increasing it to 4 did not seem to return anything more relevant. I know it has something to do with memory, but I don't know how to stop the crashes (aside from buy a better computer - not an option yet)
I use Windows XP SP3 and have 1GB RAM. How can I stop these crashes (if it's possible)?
EDIT: I now use Windows 8 with 8GB RAM, but it continues to crash.

Maybe you just dont have enough RAM. How is your RAM usage directly before a crash?

I had the same error when trying to connect after a client crash. I tried several different client versions. Whenever I managed to connect, no chunks generated and the client crashed shortly afterwards. I did have enough time once to press F5, it revealed a very large value for the player position.

So none of my clients could cope with that large value saved on the server. VanessaE checked my player file and found the last position value to be [12-04 15:04] <VanessaE> position = (-2.14748e+06,-1.63842e+06,-4712)
after resetting that, I could connect again.

PilzAdam: Usually pretty high.
Twoelk: I can connect fine and play normally at normal coordinates, so it's not that.

qwrwed wrote:PilzAdam: Usually pretty high.

Id guess that you just have too low RAM then.
Try closing other programs while playing Minetest, and decrease client_unload_unused_data in minetest.conf

A recent version of MT had such a problem. But that ought to be fixed now. Perhaps the most current version will help?

PilzAdam: I have tried setting it to 200, 100, and then 50, but it still crashed every time.
Sokomine: Sfan5's latest build doesn't work, Fess' 64-bit builds will not load on my 32-bit computer, and the other 3 (PilzAdam's, BlockMen's, xyz's) are 0.4.7-dev.

Hmm I had the same problem with version 0.4.7, after updating to stable 0.4.8 this didn't happen again.

Try to get newest MT version.

Krock wrote:Hmm I had the same problem with version 0.4.7, after updating to stable 0.4.8 this didn't happen again.

Try to get newest MT version.

I can't - I have 0.4.8 stable, and both builds (Fess, sfan5) later than that do not work.

sfan's e52d811 build is the most stable one for me. Did you try it?

That is 0.4.7-dev - if minetest crashes with the builds before that and crashes with the build after that (0.4.8-stable) then I doubt that build will work.

Eliminate MT folder, backup games/worlds and install/unzip newest version again.

I tried that with sfan5's latest build, BlockMen's latest build, and 0.4.8-stable, but that did not solve the error.

I still have this error with 0.4.10 on a new laptop with 8GB of RAM, so RAM can't be the issue.

qwrwed wrote:I still have this error with 0.4.10 on a new laptop with 8GB of RAM, so that can't be the issue.

That is a very big problem. Minetest must be devouring RAM.

Direct3d9 can cause those problems. Edit your minetest.conf and set "video_driver" to OpenGL.

The video driver is already OpenGL.

Fess' 64-bit build seems to be working fine for me.