Master Chief and TASM2 Spider-Man ship appearance presets whose EBX lists a type reference on the
slot of an import, which the game's load reads as a type index and crashes on (Skate.exe+0x3def285
and +0x3def262 in Sentry). The merge now checks every mod's own EBX, including bundles it would pass
through whole, and takes such entries (or a repeated one) out of the copy in the merged patch and of
the copies carried into other mods' bundles; the mod's original still feeds any combine, and the
merge notes say how many per mod and bundle. The check reads only the fixup lists.
A material lookup row pointing past the shader programs the game ships is left out of the merged
lookup, with a note, instead of reaching the shader registry. Tests for both.
Shader tables
- Reverts a61f82c ("Shader crash fix"). Since 2.0.8 a mod's own shader
programs were copied into the merged table, and the tables that cosmetic
bundles carry were merged across mods. Each such bundle then held other
mods' programs, and the game built them as the bundle loaded, before the
files with their compiled variants were there. That was 2.0.8's most
reported crash (Skate.exe+0x3f86da6, some forty machines in ten minutes).
2.0.9's guard passed such a program over, and the same players then
crashed a little later in cosmetic loading (+0x3f7bb65, +0x16fe1a6,
+0x3dc07ed).
- Whatever crash a61f82c fixed comes back with this for the mods that
needed it.
- The guard stays.
Music
- The game's read of one song for its scorer (0x14f23a0) is replaced by the
same read with the check it lacks: a place past the end of the playlist
asset's songs has no song, which the game already answers with 0. 2.0.9's
check in music_select_next_hook looked at what the queue held before the
game was asked and did not see these; the game asked for places such as
0xd570 and crashed reading them (7 reports on 6 machines).
- Said in the log the first eight times.
Not confirmed in game: neither change has been run by a player who was
crashing.
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