Intermittent crashing when navigating menus

Hi - great to see that there is a still a community around this game. Many fond memories playing this. I've been able to get the game running but I get frequent crashes when attempting to access the new menu options such as map lists, mutator options etc. The UI freezes and then it eventually loads whilst other times it just flat out crashes.

Has anyone experienced similar?

- Running in a VM using en_windows_xp_professional_sp3_Nov_2013_Incl_SATA_Drivers.iso
- Directx9 
- Full community pack installed

While I haven't experienced it myself, it would be difficult to ascertain the exact reason for the issue without some more information. If you take a look in your Nerf.log file after experiencing a crash, you can post the warnings and errors that lead to the crash. The log file is located in the System folder where you installed the game (typically Program Files\Atari\Nerf).

By the way, the freezing is pretty normal, as the game has to load data on hundreds of maps and many of them are missing information. As I update the maps this situation will improve. But as long as you wait a minute it shouldn't crash.

Thanks Rajada - here is a gist with a recent log following a crash.

gist.github.com/indieisaconcept/4cef230f...969c38d3d760c24bc93f

I'll investigate but it doesn't seem like the log is capturing much useful info there. My first suspicion would be that some invalid data in either the mutator, maplist, or botmatch window was saved to the ini file. You might try clearing out your maplists and mutators to start.

I just updated the menus to fix a couple of bugs when trying to load maps or gametypes that can't be loaded properly. I'd be curious to know if this fixes the problem for you. Additionally, you might want to look again in your Nerf.log to see if there are any warnings about failing to load any packages when you open the menus that cause your crashes. Even if there isn't additional logs may capture additional errors.