Hack servers and steal data in this HTML5 roguelike game. · By
I hate to be the bearer of bugs again, but I've been playing a bunch and well, every 20-30 minutes or so (haven't actually timed it) the tab the game is running in will crash. This seems to happen regardless of what I'm doing in the game, even just idling it will happen. I've been saving my progress often so it's not the worst thing. I'm using Chrome on Windows 10. On the plus side, I'm making good progress tracking down my brother, just need to find a .lnk to a particular server...
Wow, sorry about that. Thanks for reporting this; I'll see if I can figure out what's up. I'm pretty sure it's platform-specific, since I've had the game running for many hours at a time in browser tabs without a crash on my development machine, so it might take some time to track it down. If you notice a pattern or see any error messages that might shed light on what's causing it, let me know. Thanks!
I'm also seeing Chrome crash on Windows or on ChromeOS, after maybe 30-45 minutes of play (although it happened once after less than 10 minutes), on both the 7DRL version and the current release. The entire renderer tab is dying, which suggests out-of-memory or a browser bug.
The tab can sit there unplayed for a day or more, so it's not a steady-state memory leak, but something triggered by interaction.
Taking memory snapshots using Chrome DevTools, the javascript heap is growing around 300-600 kb per exit node transited; that's shouldn't be enough to crash the renderer unless you're hacking hundreds of networks.
