What causes "Game.exe has encountered a problem" type errors?

[Ellie]

Hi, I'm having some trouble, trying to integrate RGSS2 into my XP game. The errors seem to happen at random, and it isn't a game error as such so does not point me to a line.

The error is the standard "Game.exe has encountered a problem and has had to close".

I am using the legal version of XP (I know the old PK version used to get this error a lot), but am using RGSS2 within my game as per Dargor's tutorial.

I'm wondering if anyone knows what typically sparks this error, so I can try and fix it. It seems to happen at random, but if there's a common trigger that seems to set it off it would be useful to know.

 

[Dargor]

I have the same problem. It occures when you change from a scene to another (somethimes with a delay of like 4-5 seconds after the scene change).
As for me, it happens mostly with my FF6 SDK (XP+RGSS2) but it also happens on VX and I really don't know why.
I'm still trying to figure this shit out...

 

[S S Muu]

yeah, that happens for me too, even when I'm only using VX.

 

[Zeriab]

I remember I got such an error when playing around with DLL files and calls. It might happen if the DLL call crash.
I am not at all sure though it might be worth a check

 

[Kain Nobel]

Alot of the times when I encounter a "Critical Error at Address ??????" message, quite simply, it'll have something to do with a bitmap or window or something that didn't dispose. As stupid as that sounds, you'd think it'd give you a more precise message, and sometimes it does, it'll tell you "RGSS Error failed to dispose" or something, but not always.

Even using SDK::Scene_Base, which does a great job of disposing of most instance variables which respond to 'dispose', it doesn't dispose anything and everything that responds to dispose. For instance, if you're storing a disposable object in an array, and the array itself is held in an instance variable, then most likely I don't think that those objects will dispose, so during 'main_dispose' you'll have to do something like...

super
@array_of_windows.each do |win|
  win.dispose
end

I'm sure theres other things too, I think perhaps it happens if you do a File.open and forget to File.close later on, or if you delete an open file. I'll look into this more, I know I've gotten this error the other night.