Talk:Venetian blind crash

Now that both articles have actually been started, this one sounds like the same bug as Segfault/lightning flash near very tall structures. Ryan W 22:59, 25 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Hm. At least, the first paragraph of that article does.  Now that I think about it, the real meaning may be that (a) tall structures are one way of causing overflow, divide by zero, etc., and then (b) that overflow leads to a Venetian blind crash.  Right?    Ryan W 22:02, 26 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes. The tall-structures bug is a completely distinct phenomenon from venetian blind crashes. Anything that crashes DOOM may cause a venetian blind crash in DOOM, although I have on occasion seen it crash differently -- ie, with an actual stack dump from DOS4GW (very rare), or a single line of dark and unintelligible VGA text printed at the top of the screen over an otherwise normal but frozen frame of graphics. As explained in this article, venetian blind crashing is precisely the result one gets under DOS from not properly cleaning up a mess you've made. On the other hand, EE was suffering crashes due to deep holes as recently as the previous official release. --Quasar 05:26, 19 July 2006 (UTC)