Ok. I’ve made a surprising discovery. The latest revision of “Benie’s Space Station v3.1” seems to be causing Gmod to lock up in Single Player!
I made a separate install of Gmod. Got the bare bones of addons (AdvDupe, PHX, SBMP, Constraint Remover, Stacker, SmartSnap, and Wire) and tried to see if Gmod would crash in SP due to my crappy PSU.
I let it set for a few good hours. Not one lock up. So it either had to be an addon causing it, or my Space Station.
So I tried bringing my Space Station into it. Not sooner than 10 minutes after I spawn it… WHAM. Fortunately it did the “LOL COLOR FUCK UP!!” instead of a system failure.
This is telling me that my dupe is corrupted, somehow. I’m guessing from that fix due to the SVN update switching around all the SmallBridge models on me, that my Space Station uses.
However I’m not convinced. So far, Gmod SEEMS to be operating just like it did back before I got my 9500GT. So maybe the upgraded PSU did actually fix SOME of my lock up issue.
Why I say some, is because HL2:DM still is doing it. But from what I’ve seen, only does it on dm_resistance.
Back before when I had my old PSU, ANY map locked up on me. But now, I actually saw one of the bots hit the 100 kill mark!
Perhaps, this PSU wasn’t such a bad deal. However I need a better one next month. I’ve been looking at them all wrong. PSU’s are no different than any type of hardware. Higher price + Higher quality = Less lockups? 🙂
Anyway, I’m going to try to re-run Gmod tomorrow with ALL of my addons, using my supposedly borked installation, and see if it locks up in SP. If it doesn’t for as long as I had it running… then it truly is my Space Station.
And if it is, either it’s corrupt, or it’s grown so big, my video card cannot .. lol, handle it’s epicness? I’ll have to see tomorrow.
If it is my station, then I have the option of simply rebuilding it. If the dupe went corrupt, the best choice of action would be to rebuild.
I’ll keep you guys posted on whatever turns up. I got more testing to do. But right now I’m heading to bed.