I'm experiencing some trouble with engine. For some reason, when I press F11 while running just a plain WMB without any script attached to it, the engine causes my computer to freeze. I was just checking my lights and was curious about the frame rate... until I noticed that the engine froze my computer upon pressing F11. Also, while in free camera mode (press 0 to activate), pressing F11 doesn't bring up the debug panel.

Then don't press F11?

I mean, if you have no scripts assigned to a level, then why go around pressing buttons anyways...

I might assume that there's corrupted files in C:\Program Files\GStudio6 directory. Uninstall and re-install 3DGS might help fix the problem. By the way, what version of A6 Commercial do you have? And what version of DirectX do you currently use?

I have 6.31.4 and I have DirectX 9.0c installed. This, however, doesn't answer my question. What's causing the system crash when I use F11 to bring up the debug panel for the frame rate? The engine runs fine, but, when I press F11, the system suddenly stops responding and control+alt+delete doesn't work so I have to use the reset button to restart my computer.

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What's causing the system crash when I use F11 to bring up the debug panel for the frame rate?

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I think what's happening is that the 3DGS engine was never meant to be run without a script. Without a Main loop to reference, I think it's obvious the engine would do something screwy.

So the solution is obviously put a skeleton script in that does nothing

main()
{return;}

and my guess is your f11 problem will clear right up.

It worked fine in 6.22, but it doesn't any more with 6.31.4. All I use it for is to simply check the frame rate and position.

Haven't you tried reinstalling 3D GameStudio? This might solve your problem.

Try pressing your "windows" button. This will usually help you get out of this. Next, run the game in window mode. I always do this because if I have any error boxes pop up, they usually won't show up when in full screen mode.

I always run my game in windowed mode. Also, I don't have a windows key on my keyboard, it's a very old keyboard. I can still get the start menu by pressing control+escape. I use this technique to take screenshots from Midtown Madness 2, the only PC game I really play. Also, no errors pop up. My system just suddenly stops responding all together. I can't even do control+alt+delete!

Just tried it on my setup... I did not have anything freeze or other strange behavior. Maybe follow the recommendation of re-installing??