NWNX Crashing on one Module due to nwnx_chat

[Balanor]

I am using the nwnx_chat among other plugins. However, when I launch NWNX on one machine, NWServer ends up crashing seconds after the module fully loads *unless* I move the nwnx_chat.dll from the NWN folder or otherwise do not load that plugin. I have been trying to figure this out for hours and only getting more and more frustrated. My testing has confirmed the following –

1. I am using the nwnx-2.7-beta4-win32-full version of NWNX and the NWNX.ini file reads like this:

[werehound]

No answers but: Vista has given me a massive headache with nwnx_chat.

It doesn't cause my server to crash on load, but sending system messages, or tells to players causes it to crash instantly and without warning. I've been unable to diagnose or fix it myself. I've had to run my server with nwnx_chat disabled.

[MaxRock]

Probably a silly question - since it works on another machine - but are you running the chat_init (can't remember the exact name atm) script?

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[Balanor]

Thanks for the replies. As it turned out, I got frustrated enough I just shut the system down and walked away (nevermind that I had rebooted several times during my troubleshooting to see if that made a difference too). Anyway, last night when I turned it back on and tried with chat logging enabled as Max suggested NWNX loaded up the module on that machine with no problems.

I guess I'll just chalk this up to gremlins....and hope and pray it never happens again.

Thanks again.

[Balanor]

The problem has returned, of course. I've continued to mess with what settings I can find, and I even completely reinstalled NWN on that machine to no avail. I figured out though, that if I set ignore_silent=1 in the NWNX.ini, the module will load on this machine. However, when I then try logging in the server immediately crashes with the following being the results in the verbose nwn_chat.log.

[MaxRock]

You're right, it's not chat_init. the function's called InitSpeech() - should be in fky_chat_inc.nss - and needs to be called in OnModuleLoad.

[Balanor]

OK - thanks for the clarification. I did confirm the InitSpeech() function is being called on module load.

[MaxRock]

From the last line of the chatlog it seems in Speech_OnClientEnter (which gets the player id), the entering object/player is invalid (0x7FFFFFFF = OBJECT_INVALID) ... which is kinda weird since only (valid) players can trigger the OnClientEnter event...
..uhm..yea..

But as it works on a different computer the problem has to be somewhere else.
- Is the machine on which it crashes Vista 64bit?
- What OS are the others?
- Do they both use the same nwnx plugins (remove all but nwnx_chat.dll)

That's all I can think of atm.

[Balanor]

The machine this is crashing on is 32bit Vista. The other two machines I've tested this on and it works are Windows XP (the live server) and 32bit Windows Server 2008. Both of them have the same NWNX.ini and same plugins as this machine and will run the server fine with just the nwnx_chat.dll loading.

I reinstalled NWN again, rebooted after the install of it and again after installing the 1.69 patch, did *no* additional configuration changes and simply copied in the necessary NWNX dlls to run it along with the nwnx_chat.dll only, and the crash still occurs...

What really upsets me even more is it worked on this machine before, however I recently reformatted it to fix other issues and now this headache arose.

[Balanor]

Unbelievable. I’ll spare most of the gory details and cussing I went through to get this to work, but I finally got it working. On the almost nonexistent chance that this problem may end up affecting others, I’ll explain how I fixed the issue so that if anyone experiencing this problem reads this you won’t have to spent 15+ hours of your life too trying to fix this f-ed up issue.

First, I re-downloaded the SIMTools NWNX2_and_plugins_for_1.69.rar file and noticed that the timestamps on some of the .dlls in that .rar were different than those I had on my machine. So I re-copied them from that file to the NWN folder. I didn’t try launching NWNX right away afterward, so I can’t necessarily confirm that this may have helped fix the issue, but it’s one of the last steps I took.

Next, I basically decided to load up the nwnx.ini file with configurations for everything I could think of for NWNX - even if I didn’t have or was using the .dll for them. So I changed the NWNX file to look like this:

[virusman]

nwnx.ini doesn't have anything to do with this.
It's more likely that the DLLs you had were old or bugged (maybe madCHook.dll).
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