Name: Anonymous 2012-03-01 20:34
Hello, /prog/riders. It's been a very long time since I came here. Now I know a lot of you hate "weeaboo shit", but I have nobody else to ask. Your help is greatly appreciated and will not be forgotten!
Long story short, I happened to install the Visual Novel "AIR", wanting to try it out (Never played VNs before), but it's always freezing when I start it and start a new game. It's always freezing in the same position: right after the intro, when the first text box appears below in the screen, it freezes before displaying any text or images.
Notes:
- When it freezes, a process explorer shows that it's still using CPU (about 40%) and I feel it gets stuck in an infinite loop.
- I tried it on different Windows installations, both XP and 7, and the same thing happened.
- I have applocale and I had no problem installing the VN and getting the Japanese characters display right in the dialogues and whatnot.
- The VN's music/SFX play fine and its main menu shows up and all.
- I googled all possible keywords and I don't see anyone talking about a similar error. I don't know what the fuck is wrong.
I figured out I better try to debug it. Anyone here with an experience with debugging VNs? I've done (a lot of) programming before, but never done any debugging and I feel completely clueless about it.
- Have you personally encountered a lot of persistent freezing in a VN? We all know Japanese VNs are very shittily programmed.
- What program should I use?
- How do you detect infinite loops and whatnot? How do you force them to stop?
Long story short, I happened to install the Visual Novel "AIR", wanting to try it out (Never played VNs before), but it's always freezing when I start it and start a new game. It's always freezing in the same position: right after the intro, when the first text box appears below in the screen, it freezes before displaying any text or images.
Notes:
- When it freezes, a process explorer shows that it's still using CPU (about 40%) and I feel it gets stuck in an infinite loop.
- I tried it on different Windows installations, both XP and 7, and the same thing happened.
- I have applocale and I had no problem installing the VN and getting the Japanese characters display right in the dialogues and whatnot.
- The VN's music/SFX play fine and its main menu shows up and all.
- I googled all possible keywords and I don't see anyone talking about a similar error. I don't know what the fuck is wrong.
I figured out I better try to debug it. Anyone here with an experience with debugging VNs? I've done (a lot of) programming before, but never done any debugging and I feel completely clueless about it.
- Have you personally encountered a lot of persistent freezing in a VN? We all know Japanese VNs are very shittily programmed.
- What program should I use?
- How do you detect infinite loops and whatnot? How do you force them to stop?