[Crash] Maximizing the multiboard leads to freezing game with the latest Reforged patch

[Barade]

Hi,
with the latest patch of Reforged, maximizing the multiboard leads to freezing the game and I have to close the game with the task manager. Did the patch break anyhting with multiboards?
I have attached the version of the map which leads to this issues.

 

[Luashine]

Does it crash with -legacykerning on 1.33? Works fine on 1.32.10

 

[Barade]

Yes it still crashes. I added the option in the Battle.net runner as additional command line argument.
Added a bug report in the Blizzard forum but cannot include external links lol: Maximizing multiboard leads to freezing game (1.33)

 

[WaterKnight]

Slow Multiboard

www.hiveworkshop.com

Maximizing multiboard leads to freezing game (1.33)

Hi, since 1.33 my game freezes on maximizing the multiboard (maybe the new font?). I have opened a thread on Hive but cannot include the link and cannot upload the map here. edit: It seems to be the number of columns but it worked with the old version of Reforged before 1.33. The multiboard...

us.forums.blizzard.com

 

[Kurodark]

I found this issue in my map, HaE Reforged, and the temporary fix I have so far is to reduce the number of columns in the multiboard. Don't know what changed or why that fixes it.

My guess is that something changed with the behavior of how the host and player exchange data on the multiboards and now it can't handle large multiboard dimensions efficiently. The map does actually still work, it doesn't crash so much as it gets stuck processing for too long. In HaE Reforged 1.9, if the host is an Empire (Heroes have a smaller multiboard that doesn't cause the problem), everyone lags out because the host lags out. But players that are Empires and not the host just get stuck for a while and eventually catch up with the host.

I went from something like 30+ columns to 4. Unfortunately this makes the multiboard Research bar that HaE very very small with few segments. But you gotta do what you gotta do.

 

[Luashine]

My guess is that something changed with the behavior of how the host and player exchange data

That's not how the game simulation works. In the lockstep networking model each player knows all the data and receives all game-relevant player inputs. Thusly the multiboard data is generated for everyone locally. The problem is only with the 1.33 changes, there's a bug somewhere. The version was not ready for release.
However you could have more than one multiboard with manual scripting. It's probably a better solution too, because you don't always need all the data shown on the multiboard. One mb could be "Basic" with most important info and "Advanced" with extra info (usually closed).

 

[Barade]

Is 4 the maximum number of columns now or does it depend on the width? Blizzard should fix this shit now. It breaks all old versions of maps.

 

[Luashine]

Added to jassdoc Pull 81, thanks for the report.