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Any plugins known to cause soft locks/freeze the game?

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  • Original title: Any plugins known to cause soft locks/freeze the game?
  • Original author: jkweath
  • Original date: September 16, 2019
  • Source thread: https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/threads/any-plugins-known-to-cause-soft-locks-freeze-the-game.113370/
  • Source forum path: Game Development Engines > RPG Maker Javascript Plugins > Javascript/Plugin Support

Summary

This is a pretty vague question, I know, but I'm wondering if anyone knows of any plugins--or certain combinations of plugins--that are known to occasionally cause games to freeze up or act unresponsive. The exact issue I have is this: on extremely rare occasions, the game will 'freeze' - the music still plays and pressing the menu button plays the sound effect for opening the menu, but the graphics are frozen so the game is effectively soft-locked. This bug occurs in two of my games, both of which use very...

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This is a pretty vague question, I know, but I'm wondering if anyone knows of any plugins--or certain combinations of plugins--that are known to occasionally cause games to freeze up or act unresponsive.

The exact issue I have is this: on extremely rare occasions, the game will 'freeze' - the music still plays and pressing the menu button plays the sound effect for opening the menu, but the graphics are frozen so the game is effectively soft-locked.

This bug occurs in two of my games, both of which use very similar plugin structures. The main problem I have with this error is that it seems to happen completely at random - once it happened randomly while my game was minimized, and once it happened during dialogue. The few reports from other players indicate that it's occurred in other seemingly random areas, with the only common thread being that it doesn't seem happen during battles.

With this bug being almost impossible for me to replicate--especially since I haven't yet been able to pull up the console to see if an error showed up after this happened--my only idea is that it could be a plugin or combination of plugins (or possibly the custom code I wrote--hopefully not!). Here's a screenshot of my plugin list:

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Two plugins not shown are a plugin used to load extra image files and Iavra's localization plugin. GBCore is my own plugin with lots of various code edits, mainly for forcing grayscale graphics and forcing side-view battle with the sprites being in a different location and behaving differently.

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