unspecified error

[William1976]

Is it possible to get an unspecified error if a text files is altered? The questions is can a Text file cause a unspecified error? Ive been getting this and my only theory is its a text file, but I cant confirm.

[bɑne]

In short, yes. It would help if you would state the name of the file - or better yet, reverse what you did to the file and check if the problem persists.

[William1976]

Found And corrected.

I alter many files, but am diligent so crashes don't occur and I rarely have them. Then recently I had a unexpected error and could not figure it out. I isolated it to be a text file error, but never heard of one and was curious if it ever happened. In my experience if the text file is wrong, it just wont show up on screen, but does not cause a crash.

Regardless, its was a trait file error. I misspelled a trait in one of the triggers by 1 letter and that's what was crashing.

[Kaidonni]

For the purposes of catching the causes of crashes, I'll point to this thread: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...pecified+error. In particular, note that you can modify your cfg file for Stainless Steel (mine is named default.cfg, in the SS 6.3 folder along with the setup and launcher executables) so that you have the following line:

level=*script* trace

This can give you a greater amount of info about what might have caused a crash. A lot more is logged, so you'll have to do a bit of trawling, but it'll likely also log the exact details of what caused the crash. As an example, if an entry in descr_model_strat is named incorrectly (*ahem* guilty on numerous occasions! ), the normal level of error logging will simply give the error "Insufficient video memory to load the required texture set" (or something like that). With the above recommended line in use, it'll tell you any files that are missing (in my case I'd mis-named a number of files, so when I noticed the missing files I was able to correct my mistakes). You could end up scratching your head for ages thinking you did everything right, insisting you missed absolutely nothing (and that's the thing - many errors are simply silly little typos you don't notice, and won't notice).