Problem with BengtQuake

[hondobondo]

stack overflow error. Can this be blindly increased?

[revelator]

not blindly but yes it can be increased

tenebrae used a rather hefty stack 1 gig if memory serves me correctly, it does make load times a bit of a bitch though especially with loads of data.

look in sys_win.c from tenebrae and compare to standard quake source i dont remember all the changes but it was rather easy (about 5-6 lines of code) one being MAXIMUM_WIN_MEMORY value i think.

[Spike]

@reckless:
1gb stack... wtf?...
I think you mean heap... which isn't the same as stack. :)

@hondobondo:
if its windows/operating system reporting the stack overflow then you probably have a bug.
windows gives you a default stack limit of 1mb.
if its a software renderer crash, then yeah, you can prolly just blindly increase the respective limit. From what I remember there was a check in the software renderer to detect if the stack grew too much. Which is fair enough if your stack overflowing will stomp on other stuff. On a real operating system, your operating system will 'safely' kill your program if it overflows.

[mh]

Generally you can increase the stack size in your project properties, but I'd recommend running it in the debugger and finding out what's causing the overflow before doing this.

[Sajt]

I remember a comment in the Quake source saying that you should be careful what you put on the stack because they put a whole water-warp buffer (320*200=64000 bytes) on the stack in the renderer. I guess you could just increase the stack to 1MB or something. I haven't thought about that stuff since the DOS days...

[revelator]

my bad yes was heap been a while

[hondobondo]

sorry guys should've been more specific. it's crash to the quake console with "stack overflow" something like stack > 2000. i'll redo it and post the message later.