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Random freezes at the Character Select Screen... just can't pinpoint it

dusty22

Smash Cadet
Joined
Jan 23, 2014
Messages
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I tend to get random freezes at my Character select screen. I'm not sure why... It seems to have something to do with when I use modded stage textures (you call modded stages custom textures right? Like even though the geometry is modded too not just the visual skin?) but I can't really pinpoint it.

I use Riivolution and have everything in the proper folders. The modded stages load and play just fine in game, however any time after the first versus match from loading up the game, I can get a freeze at a random time while in the character select screen. It only happens there. It doesn't happen instantly either. It can happen within 1 second or take 5-10 seconds to happen while sitting in the character select screen.

My guess is that somehow either a few of the codes I'm using somehow don't play nice with the modded stages.

I have a few different mods I've tested to see if I can pinpoint the issue:
- Balanced Brawl (never gotten a freeze on this yet with modded stages, but I'm going to try and see if I can make it freeze)
These mods seem to have a small chance of freezing with modded stages enabled:
- Balanced Brawl with custom stages enabled (you know stage editor stages)
- Balanced Brawl with custom stages , and a few Brawl+ codes (heavier gravity, increased hit stun, increased shield stun)


I'm going to do some more testing to see if I can get more information, but it's hard because the freezes seem to be random, all I know is that they've NEVER happened without me having loading modded stages. I used to get freezes very often but then I updated my modlauncher.xml that I used for loading mods to a newer version and that made everything 10x more stable. Now I just get these random freezes.

Summarizing questions:
1. I know Brawl+ was never finished. Are Brawl+ codes unstable? However I got freezes even without using any Brawl+ codes...
2. Why the character select screen? Why randomly freeze? Why work for 2-3 matches and then freeze?
3. What kinds of odd things can cause random freezing that a noob like me wouldn't know?
 

dusty22

Smash Cadet
Joined
Jan 23, 2014
Messages
45
Okay, so for anyone reading this with similar problems, I figured it out. It wasn't any of the codes or stages or Riivolution.

Somewhere in the custom mods I was using there was corrupt character data (the data in the pf/ folder, not sure how that happened). Pure Balanced Brawl for some reason didn't have the corrupt character data. So I just copied the pf folder back over from Balanced Brawl into my custom mods. So it seems at least in this case, the reason I was getting freezes in the Character Select Screen was because my problem was actually corrupt character data. I was able to test the freezing by just selecting characters rapidly in the Select Screen. It seems from my experience here that character data can be "unstable" without always crashing your game outright. Still seems weird because I'm pretty sure it was not one specific character... but just seemed to happen from stressing out the Select Screen...
 
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