Unstable 96.4b win crashdump

[itec]

Seems like 96.4b is unstable for me. I updated from 96.3 and the crashes began right after that and stopped when I reverted back to 96.3. For note, I didn't recompile all my scripts, atleast in the past with 96-beta builds it didn't seem to matter if I did that or not.

Last script has pointed to sleep() everytime it crashes. When I have time, I can try if this occures with 96.4 if necessary.

[CWO]

You MUST recompile ALL scripts when upgrading cores. Otherwise you're very likely to have strange crash problems. The .em files sometimes change, the internal structure sometimes changes and if your scripts are compiled under the old core, that can spell some really weird things for your shard.

[MuadDib]

Recompile them all, I'd say that's the problem. Try that first and let us know,.

[MuadDib]

Any login related packet hooks?

[itec]

I'll try it as soon as I have the time, and tell you if it did the trick.

Just to be clear, is it really necessary to update all scripts on every new core? Sometimes it has been mentioned in core-changes "all scripts must be recompiled!", so I had taken it's not necessary everytime. It takes sometime for me to update all the compiled scripts to server, so I would rather not do it if it's not needed.

As far as I remember, the only packet we send on login, is character profile for new players to enforce people to write it. Status and skill-lock packets are probably sent at login too.

[Yukiko]

Yes. It is absolutely necessary to recompile all scripts on a core update.

If POL performs as I believe it does the p-code (pseudo-machine code) opcodes that the emulator reads from the *.ecl files probably change along with a few hundred other internal items. This requires a recompile to generate new pseudo codes for the updated core.

[Shinigami]