Help! Map compiler closes by itself(crash)

Hello, I downloaded a trial version of A7 7.50. My level is composed mainly with blocks and I do have some models in it. The reason that I used blocks mainly in the buildings so that It could have light shading in it. It was compiling fine before but after I try working and building my map and when I try to compile, when the 'building lightmaps' appears or after the nexus reaches 0 that's the time it will crash, microsoft error report or something like that.

I wanted to know if there is a workaround for this? I used simple mode, with 'create meshes' on and lightmap scale to 13, and also the visibility calculations to on. My errors is only 'vertex out of plane'. But I noticed when I set the lightmap scale to 0 the compiling finishes fine. But I want to have some better lighting to my map so I need to set it to 13 or more.

My computer specs is a core2duo 2ghz, 2gig of ram, 256mb onboard video Intel X300. Running on windows XP sp2, and btw it's a laptop.

Can anyone please explain why is this happening? everything went smoothly before this. I really wanted to have a crash-free compiling.

If anyone also experienced this issue and managed to solve it please don't hesitate to share it. I need to get this working sooner before deadline time. I really need your help. Thanks!

can you at least explain the possible causes that makes GS crash?

From what I've seen in the past, save your project folder, move it to desktop, and do a fresh install. A file or some files may have become corrupt. Then when you are done re-installing, move your project folder back.

thanks for responding, i already did a fresh install but the problem still persist. It seems that map compiler doesn't want to have a level made mainly with blocks. I guess the compiler cannot process huge level of blocks as if it has it's limit because when I delete some portions of my level it will build fine but when I try to add some building blocks it will crash when compiling. I hope somebody will give me an explanation why and hopefully a solution. So I have no choice but to split my map into two. have a nice day!

Hi!

Do you have a big sky cube around your bloks?

Ottawa

hello ottawa,

Thank you for replying, I hope you could be able to help me solve this problem. Do you mean a huge hollow block cube? Correct me if I'm wrong. Actually, I don't have it in my map. Could you kindly explain to me what's the difference of having a skycube and not having it? Does it affect the map compiler in such a way? I need to know what's the cause of this. Thanks.

Hi jpxtreme

Oh yes. You need a huge hollow cube around your world.

Start with the default texture for this hollow cude. Make sur that
everything is inside.

The calculations need a limit...they need to know where the univers ends.
When you complile the game you should not get any error messages
like leeking...

Ottawa