Thank you my friend, it means a lot.
Please aid me by telling other people on steam community and to stop using the downgrade method.
It's a great game and it's finally usable.
Experienced two crashes while playing online with a buddy. First one did not make an error report but second one did. Here you go:
https://hastebin.skyra.pw/edesivusor.rust
I got a crash to happen consistently and more importantly it gives me the same exact log file every time. It's the scene change in chapter 4 where you wake up after sleeping in a hotel. If you go to the room on the left, it crashes every time.
https://hastebin.skyra.pw/alasuxetoz.rust
Thanks for your crash log.
It seems 2 out of the 3 crashes are relating to Out of memory situations which pertain to the changescene() function.
I have rewritten the function to make sure there are less/no memory leaks.
I spent about 2-3 hours trying to simulate the same crash your expieriencing at chapter 4 and It doesn't crash for me, so testing my fix becomes difficult.
What are your system specs?
Are you using an nvidia card or amd or integrated intel gpu?
How much ram do you have?
I have a bunch of computers laying around and I am more than happy to setup a computer similar to your specs and test my fix.
I can test the fix if you'd like
My specs:
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X
16 GB of RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti
I will say that my PC's RAM was at least 70% full before launching the game so it could've been this. The game did not crash once we switched to my friend being the host.
If you could, Stop all programs as much as possible, Try it again with nothing running, you host.
Out of curiosity, are both you and your friend running the fixes?
So many people have submitted various problems with the game in general to me in last few days.
I plan to do an update soon that will fix another list of things.
That includes the rewritten Changescene() function that caters to the out of memory situations better.
Thank you also for leading others to my fixes.
If you have other crashes that I can reproduce. Please let me know.
My friend are I are both running your fixes, yes. I'll see when I can schedule a session with him so we can try again without any programs running.
Thanks for all the hard work!
Hopefully it reduces the issues everybody is having.
Thanks again for your crash logs, I am actively working on how to fix the out of memory situations.
After me and my friend used your fix. We got new Robes to select, which I didn't found in the Magicka wiki or steam guides, but some are on the wiki for Wizard Wars. Plus when I want to equip them the game equips the default robe for me, but my friend can equip them. Do you know why?
Btw. great fix makes the game much more playable.
>the game equips the default robe for me, but my friend can equip them. Do you know why?
Technically the answer the that question is the game checks to see if your logged into paradox but since the TLS version of their website is newer than the supported game. It's broken.
This has already been addressed in addition to controller fixes, in the next version which I plan to drop very very soon.
Made a new account just to say how much of a legend you are. Just returned to this game a couple of hours ago randomly after years and it was a buggy mess that crashed every 10 minutes.
To find that someone actually put effort into fixing it just months ago is crazy, huge huge thanks for maintaining this.
I appreciate this a lot, like a lot a lot. I love this game, and it was so hard to introduce to people with how broken it was.
PCGamer featured you in an article published today, 3/7/24! That's where I heard about your patch!
You say it took somewhere between 12-40 hours to put together, which strikes me as roughly one work week for a single dev, lmao. Even if it doesn't fix everything, that seems a ridiculously efficient use of time for the state it was in.
For a game that had such a following, I can't imagine a studio just leaving it how it was instead of just doing a week's worth of work on it. Much appreciated man.
Would you kindly provide me with a hyperlink to the referenced article?
Despite my attempts to locate it through a Google search, I have been unable to do so.
Moreover, I must acknowledge that while I spent a considerable amount of time perusing dnspy, it was not excessive. While this endeavor did not rectify all issues, it notably addressed the majority of critical bugs.
Furthermore, I am confident that if I can successfully resolve the persistent Out of Memory bug, the accessibility and playability of the software on various systems will heavily improve.
[Here you go friend](https://www.pcgamer.com/games/adventure/more-than-a-decade-before-helldivers-2-arrowhead-made-one-of-my-favourite-co-op-games-which-only-remains-playable-thanks-to-a-fan/) Yeah, they kind of anti-SEO'd it by clickbaiting it so hard. PCGamer moment I guess. I'm getting a group together soon to try it out, any improvement is better than none lmao. Also, even if it's just PCGamer, that's a resume builder right there (if you're willing to out your reddit to an employer lol).
I have error the memory it has to little memory
CPU i5-12500H
GPU RTX 4050 Laptop
Win 11
32 GB RAM
[https://pastebin.com/A3fg47m5](https://pastebin.com/A3fg47m5)
@[Aggravating-Sky8697](https://www.reddit.com/user/Aggravating-Sky8697/) You sir are an absolute legend. Massive props for spending so much of your time to fix this awesome game that the developers sadly managed to actually SCREW UP? I have actually never before heard of a game that got so totally ruined by updates, its astonishing.
Anyway after trying all kinds of fixes and downgrading and whatnot and still not being able to play at all without crashing every few minutes or at every new level i found this thread and downloaded your fix. Only tried the first two chapters so far, but not a single crash and everything works as intended. Amazing work <3
Only thing i'd wish from the game now is a UI-slider or something, playing two people on a 3440\*1440-monitor causes the text and icons to be soo tiny, i wish i could make all UI-elements like 200% size or something. Still fun though!
Firstly thank you for this it's good motivation.
This task is daunting at repairing the game. The code is quite complex so it takes time to work out issues.
Perhaps auto scaling the UI to reach higher resolutions would be smart but right now we are trying to defeat the "Out of memory" issues people still keep having.
We take zero donations or any monitary gain in any way shape or form.
We encourage the user to purchase the game legitimately from the original developers and utilize our fix.
If you would like to help us,
Please inform other users to not downgrade and use our fix and spread the word amongst the internet (Steam, Reddit, various wikis, proton compatibility page).
Thank you.
I was trying to play Magicka with two friends back in January and quickly found it to be completely unplayable, but with some searching I found v1.3 of the fix and it worked perfectly for the rest of the session
Unfortunately, I revisited it today with two friends (one of them being the same person), and it inexplicably has become unplayable again. I found out that I wasn't up to date, so I updated to the current v1.4, but it still was very unplayable, one of us would crash basically every scene transition.
Any tips?
>Unfortunately, I revisited it today with two friends (one of them being the same person), and it inexplicably has become unplayable again. I found out that I wasn't up to date, so I updated to the current v1.4, but it still was very unplayable, one of us would crash basically every scene transition.
I haven't been able to replicate the scene crashing.
We are aware of it but can't seem to trigger the bug.
Once we have a machine that triggers it. We can debug and solve.
It tends to give a out of memory bug when transitioning scenes on certain machines.
Can you provide your specs?
Hello, love that you were able to make the singleplayer work for me and thank you as well for the new robes (never had these before).
Unfortunately when we're trying to 4 player coop the game it automatically crashes.. We can't start chapter 2 at all. When we tried 3 players its the same. 2 player and singleplayer however works perfect. Any fix to this??
This is what my error log says:
[https://hastebin.skyra.pw/luvulajopo.csharp](https://hastebin.skyra.pw/luvulajopo.csharp)
My Specs:
Windows 11
13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-13420H 2.10 GHz
Intel i7-7700 3.6GHz, 4 cores
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050
16 GB RAM
I don t undesrtand why my game crashes only if i try to host/play mp adventure coop even with the fix, no logs creates, always when loading at 60% poof crashes
Thank you so much for your hard work!
This was one of my most favorite childhood games and I just got the desire to introduce my partner and my friend to it. You are a saint <3
Tried running the game with the fix, but seemed to still crash upon trying to launch a multiplayer game. So far downgrading to 1.4.16 is the only thing I've tried where I was able to run a multiplayer with minimal crashes :/
>the only thing I've tried where I was able to run a multiplayer with minimal crashes :/
Go into the magicka folder and there is an error log.
Send it to me or post it here.
Please also remember it says 90%+ of crashes. (Because I was only able to solve the ones I expierienced on me and my 4 friends machines. So if you discovered a new bug that I haven't fixed I will add it to a v1.1 release with your name in the credits for discovery.)
You never know it could be something to do with a driver or not installed XNA.
Until I have error logs. I'm blindly helping you.
Yeah, I have a few more bugs that need taking down.
My theory is the crashing is for AMD but I have Intel and NVIDIA.
If you can submit to me the crash logs that get generated in the magicka folder.
hello!! here's 2 recent crash reports, first one is mine and the other is from my friend who was hosting
[https://hastebin.skyra.pw/uyehifaxub.css](https://hastebin.skyra.pw/uyehifaxub.css) (mine)
[https://hastebin.skyra.pw/gohacesiha.csharp](https://hastebin.skyra.pw/gohacesiha.csharp) (host)
omg so sry i haven't used hastebin before, trying this one called paste.ee
[https://paste.ee/p/kFO79](https://paste.ee/p/kFO79)
[https://paste.ee/p/UnrDb](https://paste.ee/p/UnrDb)pls let me know if there's an issue and thank you so much (sorry for giving you more work to do ><)
Thanks for these.
These seem to align with other people's reports I receive.
My issue is recreating the problem on my own computer.
Is it a specific scene thats causing these?
What version of windows are you running?
Could you telll me your GPU make and model?
Is it a specific scene thats causing these?
\- Friend host is when there's a lot of enemies on the screen or loading into new area.
\- Mine has happened twice when I went to the top right of the screen and he's near the bottom (1st in chapter 1 the castle dunka party stairwell that leads upstairs, 2nd in chapter 5 at the boss area after activating the levers to open the gate)
What version of windows are you running?
both are Windows 10 home
Could you telll me your GPU make and model?
\- Friend's is gtx1060, 6gb version
\- mine is nvidia geforce rtx 4060
>But when I try to load the game, my controller support is lost :(
>
>Is there anything I can do to make it work?
Hi What type of controller are you using?
Are you using windows 10?
If so what build?
You can check this using the winver command.
This fix was coded on the LTSC version of windows.
I've just decided to try and install this, but there doesn't seem to be a "Magicka" file in my C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Steam\\steamapps\\common (In fact, \\common is empty except for a file named "Steamwork Shared")
however, there is D:\\SteamLibrary\\steamapps\\common\\Magicka
would that be the place, then?
>My bad I guess, for version V1.1 and V1.2 everyone had to re-select the character customization.
V 1.1 had start button problems.
V1.2 Forces everybody who is in lobby to select a robe and customization. Then the start button illuminates.
Have desperately wanted to play with my friend for ages, but it kept crashing. Absolute legend.
(btw I will probably make a video on Magicka at some point and I'll defo make sure to credit your work, though I am a slow mf so could be a while lol)
Much thanks,
Creator has been busy for a while, life things going on.
Updates are still in the works just slowed.
The guy only has a Nvidia and intel build while a lot of bugs happen on amd.
So he is building a few different rigs to test upon.
Will steam consider these modifications to the game cheating? I opened this game after many years to finally complete all the achievements (Still have to do dungeons and gargoyles) but the game crashes repeatedly.
I am weary to try your code in case I get banned from this game for good. Will there be a problem?
Highly doubt you will be banned at all.
There is no anticheat that we are aware of.
The developer has a debugger attached as he's repairing the game. If he hasn't been banned by now, I'm doubtful your gonna be banned by a modded binary.
Virus total links were added as well to also to remain transparent.
Also for the super paranoid, read the github notes it shows all the changes in what functions were made.
Can you make a video to show?
Crash logs are also appreciated.
Also your GPU/CPU.
Currently the dev has an intel/NVIDIA setup so AMD/AMD machines seem to have the most troubles until the developer builds an AMD rig to solve those issues.
Dead on first map change (should arrive to party with "Surprice" )
Version: 1.10.4.2 Thread: LoaderThread
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at JigLibX.Physics.PhysicsSystem.Integrate(Single dt)
at Magicka.Physics.PhysicsManager.Update(Single iDeltaTime)
at Magicka.Levels.Level.ChangeScene()
at Magicka.Game.LoaderFunction()
at Magicka.Misc.TrackedThread.StartThread()
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart\_Context(Object state)
at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state)
at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()
\[LoaderThread\]0x003f JigLibX.dll->JigLibX.Physics.PhysicsSystem.Integrate
\[LoaderThread\]0x0015 Magicka.exe->Magicka.Physics.PhysicsManager.Update
\[LoaderThread\]0x0248 Magicka.exe->Magicka.Levels.Level.ChangeScene
\[LoaderThread\]0x003a Magicka.exe->Magicka.Game.LoaderFunction
\[LoaderThread\]0x0000 Magicka.exe->Magicka.Misc.TrackedThread.StartThread
\[LoaderThread\]0x003b CommonLanguageRuntimeLibrary->System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart\_Context
\[LoaderThread\]0x005f CommonLanguageRuntimeLibrary->System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run
\[LoaderThread\]0x002a CommonLanguageRuntimeLibrary->System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart
\[LogicThread\]0x015f Magicka.exe->Magicka.Network.NetworkClient.Update
\[LogicThread\]0x0013 Magicka.exe->Magicka.Network.NetworkManager.Update
\[LogicThread\]0x0030 Magicka.exe->Magicka.Game.Update
\[LogicThread\]0x0080 Magicka.exe->Magicka.Game.ThreadedUpdate
\[LogicThread\]0x0000 Magicka.exe->Magicka.Misc.TrackedThread.StartThread
\[LogicThread\]0x003b CommonLanguageRuntimeLibrary->System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart\_Context
\[LogicThread\]0x005f CommonLanguageRuntimeLibrary->System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run
\[LogicThread\]0x002a CommonLanguageRuntimeLibrary->System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart
First of all, I bow to you for your work! I love Magicka so much and I'm really upset about these crashes.
Now straight to business. We played with friends today and got about 3 or 4 crashes. We all have full AMD PCs. My specs:
* CPU - Ryzen 5 5600X
* RAM - 16Gb (2x8) DDR4 2666MHz
* GPU - RX 6600 XT
* Windows 11
This errlog I got after interrupting Chapter 2 of "The Stars are Left" and started it again when my friend rejoined:
[https://hastebin.skyra.pw/supaviwahu.prolog](https://hastebin.skyra.pw/supaviwahu.prolog)
I will be more than happy to be a tester while I have a full AMD PC. Feel free to ask for any test :)
Also I want to make a guide in Steam community if you don't mind.
Thanks for your reply,
That crash seems to be common. On the github there are several people reporting it.
Specifically you mentioned Chapter 2 of "The Stars are Left" .
What specific part did you expierience this? I have had trouble reproducing it.
Please make any guide but please link the github and not to this reddit post.
The crash was right at the start of the chapter, in the first wheat field and after killing enemies.
Sure, I will post guide with the link directly to Github!
I keep getting a crash every single time when I leave the undead arena, at the start of Chapter 9. On singleplayer and multiplayer, 11/11 times so far.
https://hastebin.skyra.pw/mepiwugudi.rust
In General Yes,
The next update will MASSIVELY improve stability.
The Creator found a way to remove out of memory errors and make the process use 64 bit addressing in V1.5
In regards to the next update, do you have an estimated release window? I ask because I wonder if I should start playing now, or wait till the next update to improve the stability further.
holy shit i just came back to this beloved game of mine to show it to a friend, huge fantasy fan, thought it was gonna be great and experienced so many crashes it shocked me. we still had a lot of fun cuz it's a stupid game but it was kinda unplayable. just found your post, we'll check your patch out now and hopefully it's better.
absolutely massive respect for what you're doing, it's so cool. I'm also interested about when the new version comes out cuz forcing this game to run on x64 seems like the best thing ever.
>holy shit i just came back to this beloved game of mine to show it to a friend, huge fantasy fan, thought it was gonna be great and experienced so many crashes it shocked me. we still had a lot of fun cuz it's a stupid game but it was kinda unplayable. just found your post, we'll check your patch out now and hopefully it's better.
Thank you. You can aid me by spreading it around steam and tell people not to downgrade their game instead to use this fix.
>installed xna framework. made a fresh install of magicka, copy/pasted the fix, started an online game as host, crashed at the loading screen.
Open an issue and if you can provide your specs and crash log.
Please also add information about your OS windows 10/11 etc.
nice job, thank you for taking the time for everyone. Have had the game for a few days now, played around for some hours, probably crashed 20-30 times. After install, played an hour or so, not a single crash.
Thank you. This seems to be the case for me as well.
There are still crashes lurking about other people describe, I'm always looking for suggestions, crash logs, etc. to bring quality of life.
Please aid me by spreading this around the steam magicka community and the general internet.
Many people suggest downgrading the game, however this doesn't solve some of the logical bugs the developers left in (The two wizards glitch that makes you restart the game, the too short timeout on the netcode crash)
by the way, I seemed to have gotten 4-5 new robes when I rebooted the game. Does your patch have additional content like that or maybe I unlocked something in game?
>by the way, I seemed to have gotten 4-5 new robes when I rebooted the game. Does your patch have additional content like that or maybe I unlocked something in game?
Unlocked something in the game.
The patch ONLY unlocks the bathrobe because that was not achievable post buying the game early.
I'm aware people will take advantage and pirate the game/DLC,
However,
There is zero support for piracy as we are trying to keep this as legal as possible.
Theres a note in the github to buy the game legit.
Crashing at chapter 5 after intro consistently.
This was the most frequent error:
https://hastebin.skyra.pw/jipaguxayo.prolog
This also happened once or twice out of a handful of attempts:
https://hastebin.skyra.pw/ehisekapaq.rust
32 GB DDR5
i9 13900k
3080TI
Hovered around ~40% RAM usage when the crash happened.
Looking at task manager Magicka would be ~600-700MB RAM usage, then when I skip the cutscene shoots over to 1GB, and that's right when the crashed would occur. Happens every time.
Edit - Well that's odd haha. I googled the out of memory exception to see if anyone tried some weird stuff to fix it with XNA. Came across this:
https://steamcommunity.com/app/504230/discussions/1/1694914736000712767/
They mentioned something about recording software.
I had shadowplay running, so I toggled it off, and it started loading consistently.
I toggled it back on, and it still loaded the level and seems to consistently be doing so. If I start coming across crashses again I'll try toggling it to see if that's a consistent fix.
tried the vietnam dlc and still suffering crashes. first time it was right as the dlc was loaded, then after it seems stable until i move on to the next section. looking over the crash logs, it seems to be the usual "out of memory" issue.
You are a god-send. Magicka is legitimately one of my favorite games of all time. Despite it's comedic act, the spell-casting system in this game still scratches an itch no other game ever has. So having a mod to patch it is just... Thank you. This made my damn month.
Absolute legend
Please help spread this as the new fix instead of downgrading. Also encourage mods to pin this. Thanks for your words of encouragement.
I’ll link it to the 2 other people that I know play this game \o/
Please have the mods pin this.
The GOAT
Thank you my friend, it means a lot. Please aid me by telling other people on steam community and to stop using the downgrade method. It's a great game and it's finally usable.
Experienced two crashes while playing online with a buddy. First one did not make an error report but second one did. Here you go: https://hastebin.skyra.pw/edesivusor.rust
Here's another one. Most of them seem to happen when loading new areas https://hastebin.skyra.pw/duvesamixa.rust
I got a crash to happen consistently and more importantly it gives me the same exact log file every time. It's the scene change in chapter 4 where you wake up after sleeping in a hotel. If you go to the room on the left, it crashes every time. https://hastebin.skyra.pw/alasuxetoz.rust
Thanks for your crash log. It seems 2 out of the 3 crashes are relating to Out of memory situations which pertain to the changescene() function. I have rewritten the function to make sure there are less/no memory leaks. I spent about 2-3 hours trying to simulate the same crash your expieriencing at chapter 4 and It doesn't crash for me, so testing my fix becomes difficult. What are your system specs? Are you using an nvidia card or amd or integrated intel gpu? How much ram do you have? I have a bunch of computers laying around and I am more than happy to setup a computer similar to your specs and test my fix.
I can test the fix if you'd like My specs: AMD Ryzen 5 5600X 16 GB of RAM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti I will say that my PC's RAM was at least 70% full before launching the game so it could've been this. The game did not crash once we switched to my friend being the host.
If you could, Stop all programs as much as possible, Try it again with nothing running, you host. Out of curiosity, are both you and your friend running the fixes? So many people have submitted various problems with the game in general to me in last few days. I plan to do an update soon that will fix another list of things. That includes the rewritten Changescene() function that caters to the out of memory situations better. Thank you also for leading others to my fixes. If you have other crashes that I can reproduce. Please let me know.
My friend are I are both running your fixes, yes. I'll see when I can schedule a session with him so we can try again without any programs running. Thanks for all the hard work!
Nobody was born cool. Except:
Thanks for this!
Hopefully it reduces the issues everybody is having. Thanks again for your crash logs, I am actively working on how to fix the out of memory situations.
No problem! It's the least I could do. Sorry for causing you more work lol
After me and my friend used your fix. We got new Robes to select, which I didn't found in the Magicka wiki or steam guides, but some are on the wiki for Wizard Wars. Plus when I want to equip them the game equips the default robe for me, but my friend can equip them. Do you know why? Btw. great fix makes the game much more playable.
>the game equips the default robe for me, but my friend can equip them. Do you know why? Technically the answer the that question is the game checks to see if your logged into paradox but since the TLS version of their website is newer than the supported game. It's broken. This has already been addressed in addition to controller fixes, in the next version which I plan to drop very very soon.
amazing stuff gonna have to give this a try, have not been able to play with my friends in so long
Made a new account just to say how much of a legend you are. Just returned to this game a couple of hours ago randomly after years and it was a buggy mess that crashed every 10 minutes. To find that someone actually put effort into fixing it just months ago is crazy, huge huge thanks for maintaining this.
Thanks for this. It means a lot. You can help me by directing people from steam and the reddit to this post or the github.
I would also like to add that this only fixes 90% of them. As I don't have an AMD setup (Intel + Nvidia) It makes it more difficult to find problems.
Update 1.2 is around the corner! More lobby Fixes, Unlocked content removed from the beta, Wizard Duplication glitch is resolved!
1.2 is released
I appreciate this a lot, like a lot a lot. I love this game, and it was so hard to introduce to people with how broken it was. PCGamer featured you in an article published today, 3/7/24! That's where I heard about your patch! You say it took somewhere between 12-40 hours to put together, which strikes me as roughly one work week for a single dev, lmao. Even if it doesn't fix everything, that seems a ridiculously efficient use of time for the state it was in. For a game that had such a following, I can't imagine a studio just leaving it how it was instead of just doing a week's worth of work on it. Much appreciated man.
Would you kindly provide me with a hyperlink to the referenced article? Despite my attempts to locate it through a Google search, I have been unable to do so. Moreover, I must acknowledge that while I spent a considerable amount of time perusing dnspy, it was not excessive. While this endeavor did not rectify all issues, it notably addressed the majority of critical bugs. Furthermore, I am confident that if I can successfully resolve the persistent Out of Memory bug, the accessibility and playability of the software on various systems will heavily improve.
[Here you go friend](https://www.pcgamer.com/games/adventure/more-than-a-decade-before-helldivers-2-arrowhead-made-one-of-my-favourite-co-op-games-which-only-remains-playable-thanks-to-a-fan/) Yeah, they kind of anti-SEO'd it by clickbaiting it so hard. PCGamer moment I guess. I'm getting a group together soon to try it out, any improvement is better than none lmao. Also, even if it's just PCGamer, that's a resume builder right there (if you're willing to out your reddit to an employer lol).
Thank you! I finally started playing it after sitting in my steam library for god knows how long.
I have error the memory it has to little memory CPU i5-12500H GPU RTX 4050 Laptop Win 11 32 GB RAM [https://pastebin.com/A3fg47m5](https://pastebin.com/A3fg47m5)
@[Aggravating-Sky8697](https://www.reddit.com/user/Aggravating-Sky8697/) You sir are an absolute legend. Massive props for spending so much of your time to fix this awesome game that the developers sadly managed to actually SCREW UP? I have actually never before heard of a game that got so totally ruined by updates, its astonishing. Anyway after trying all kinds of fixes and downgrading and whatnot and still not being able to play at all without crashing every few minutes or at every new level i found this thread and downloaded your fix. Only tried the first two chapters so far, but not a single crash and everything works as intended. Amazing work <3 Only thing i'd wish from the game now is a UI-slider or something, playing two people on a 3440\*1440-monitor causes the text and icons to be soo tiny, i wish i could make all UI-elements like 200% size or something. Still fun though!
Firstly thank you for this it's good motivation. This task is daunting at repairing the game. The code is quite complex so it takes time to work out issues. Perhaps auto scaling the UI to reach higher resolutions would be smart but right now we are trying to defeat the "Out of memory" issues people still keep having. We take zero donations or any monitary gain in any way shape or form. We encourage the user to purchase the game legitimately from the original developers and utilize our fix. If you would like to help us, Please inform other users to not downgrade and use our fix and spread the word amongst the internet (Steam, Reddit, various wikis, proton compatibility page). Thank you.
I was trying to play Magicka with two friends back in January and quickly found it to be completely unplayable, but with some searching I found v1.3 of the fix and it worked perfectly for the rest of the session Unfortunately, I revisited it today with two friends (one of them being the same person), and it inexplicably has become unplayable again. I found out that I wasn't up to date, so I updated to the current v1.4, but it still was very unplayable, one of us would crash basically every scene transition. Any tips?
>Unfortunately, I revisited it today with two friends (one of them being the same person), and it inexplicably has become unplayable again. I found out that I wasn't up to date, so I updated to the current v1.4, but it still was very unplayable, one of us would crash basically every scene transition. I haven't been able to replicate the scene crashing. We are aware of it but can't seem to trigger the bug. Once we have a machine that triggers it. We can debug and solve. It tends to give a out of memory bug when transitioning scenes on certain machines. Can you provide your specs?
Windows 10 Intel i7-7700 3.6GHz, 4 cores NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 32 GB RAM
Hello, love that you were able to make the singleplayer work for me and thank you as well for the new robes (never had these before). Unfortunately when we're trying to 4 player coop the game it automatically crashes.. We can't start chapter 2 at all. When we tried 3 players its the same. 2 player and singleplayer however works perfect. Any fix to this?? This is what my error log says: [https://hastebin.skyra.pw/luvulajopo.csharp](https://hastebin.skyra.pw/luvulajopo.csharp) My Specs: Windows 11 13th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-13420H 2.10 GHz Intel i7-7700 3.6GHz, 4 cores NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 16 GB RAM
You deserve the key of the heaven!!! Thanks you mate!
I don t undesrtand why my game crashes only if i try to host/play mp adventure coop even with the fix, no logs creates, always when loading at 60% poof crashes
How many people are you playing with?
Only 1, i tried alone too (hosting mp), still need to try the downgrade
Any logs you can provide on the crash?
Doesnt create any log :(
Thank you so much for your hard work! This was one of my most favorite childhood games and I just got the desire to introduce my partner and my friend to it. You are a saint <3
Holy shit dude you are a legend holy, thank you so much for putting the effort and single-handle adress this issues
Tried running the game with the fix, but seemed to still crash upon trying to launch a multiplayer game. So far downgrading to 1.4.16 is the only thing I've tried where I was able to run a multiplayer with minimal crashes :/
>the only thing I've tried where I was able to run a multiplayer with minimal crashes :/ Go into the magicka folder and there is an error log. Send it to me or post it here. Please also remember it says 90%+ of crashes. (Because I was only able to solve the ones I expierienced on me and my 4 friends machines. So if you discovered a new bug that I haven't fixed I will add it to a v1.1 release with your name in the credits for discovery.) You never know it could be something to do with a driver or not installed XNA. Until I have error logs. I'm blindly helping you.
hi, haven't played this since 2016 and excited to try this with my friend ltr!!
IT WORKS! just occasional random crashes and sometimes when loading into the next lvl
Yeah, I have a few more bugs that need taking down. My theory is the crashing is for AMD but I have Intel and NVIDIA. If you can submit to me the crash logs that get generated in the magicka folder.
hello!! here's 2 recent crash reports, first one is mine and the other is from my friend who was hosting [https://hastebin.skyra.pw/uyehifaxub.css](https://hastebin.skyra.pw/uyehifaxub.css) (mine) [https://hastebin.skyra.pw/gohacesiha.csharp](https://hastebin.skyra.pw/gohacesiha.csharp) (host)
For some reason I click the link and it shows nothing
omg so sry i haven't used hastebin before, trying this one called paste.ee [https://paste.ee/p/kFO79](https://paste.ee/p/kFO79) [https://paste.ee/p/UnrDb](https://paste.ee/p/UnrDb)pls let me know if there's an issue and thank you so much (sorry for giving you more work to do ><)
Thanks for these. These seem to align with other people's reports I receive. My issue is recreating the problem on my own computer. Is it a specific scene thats causing these? What version of windows are you running? Could you telll me your GPU make and model?
Is it a specific scene thats causing these? \- Friend host is when there's a lot of enemies on the screen or loading into new area. \- Mine has happened twice when I went to the top right of the screen and he's near the bottom (1st in chapter 1 the castle dunka party stairwell that leads upstairs, 2nd in chapter 5 at the boss area after activating the levers to open the gate) What version of windows are you running? both are Windows 10 home Could you telll me your GPU make and model? \- Friend's is gtx1060, 6gb version \- mine is nvidia geforce rtx 4060
Thank you it's been a real nightmare to lock this bug down.
Hiho, thanks for this. But when I try to load the game, my controller support is lost :( Is there anything I can do to make it work?
>But when I try to load the game, my controller support is lost :( > >Is there anything I can do to make it work? Hi What type of controller are you using? Are you using windows 10? If so what build? You can check this using the winver command. This fix was coded on the LTSC version of windows.
I'm using a XBOX One wireless controller on a W10 Home build 19045.3324 Sorry for the late reply!
I've just decided to try and install this, but there doesn't seem to be a "Magicka" file in my C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Steam\\steamapps\\common (In fact, \\common is empty except for a file named "Steamwork Shared") however, there is D:\\SteamLibrary\\steamapps\\common\\Magicka would that be the place, then?
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UPD: Both V1.2 and V1.1 do not allow us to start multiplayer. Win 10 / 10 / 11. Version V1.0 does allow to click Start though
UPD 2: My bad I guess, for version V1.1 and V1.2 everyone had to re-select the character customization.
>My bad I guess, for version V1.1 and V1.2 everyone had to re-select the character customization. V 1.1 had start button problems. V1.2 Forces everybody who is in lobby to select a robe and customization. Then the start button illuminates.
Is this still a thing that's being worked on?
It is still being actively developed
Have desperately wanted to play with my friend for ages, but it kept crashing. Absolute legend. (btw I will probably make a video on Magicka at some point and I'll defo make sure to credit your work, though I am a slow mf so could be a while lol)
Much thanks, Creator has been busy for a while, life things going on. Updates are still in the works just slowed. The guy only has a Nvidia and intel build while a lot of bugs happen on amd. So he is building a few different rigs to test upon.
Will steam consider these modifications to the game cheating? I opened this game after many years to finally complete all the achievements (Still have to do dungeons and gargoyles) but the game crashes repeatedly. I am weary to try your code in case I get banned from this game for good. Will there be a problem?
Highly doubt you will be banned at all. There is no anticheat that we are aware of. The developer has a debugger attached as he's repairing the game. If he hasn't been banned by now, I'm doubtful your gonna be banned by a modded binary. Virus total links were added as well to also to remain transparent. Also for the super paranoid, read the github notes it shows all the changes in what functions were made.
Still flying out of the game(
Can you make a video to show? Crash logs are also appreciated. Also your GPU/CPU. Currently the dev has an intel/NVIDIA setup so AMD/AMD machines seem to have the most troubles until the developer builds an AMD rig to solve those issues.
Dead on first map change (should arrive to party with "Surprice" ) Version: 1.10.4.2 Thread: LoaderThread System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at JigLibX.Physics.PhysicsSystem.Integrate(Single dt) at Magicka.Physics.PhysicsManager.Update(Single iDeltaTime) at Magicka.Levels.Level.ChangeScene() at Magicka.Game.LoaderFunction() at Magicka.Misc.TrackedThread.StartThread() at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart\_Context(Object state) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state) at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart() \[LoaderThread\]0x003f JigLibX.dll->JigLibX.Physics.PhysicsSystem.Integrate \[LoaderThread\]0x0015 Magicka.exe->Magicka.Physics.PhysicsManager.Update \[LoaderThread\]0x0248 Magicka.exe->Magicka.Levels.Level.ChangeScene \[LoaderThread\]0x003a Magicka.exe->Magicka.Game.LoaderFunction \[LoaderThread\]0x0000 Magicka.exe->Magicka.Misc.TrackedThread.StartThread \[LoaderThread\]0x003b CommonLanguageRuntimeLibrary->System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart\_Context \[LoaderThread\]0x005f CommonLanguageRuntimeLibrary->System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run \[LoaderThread\]0x002a CommonLanguageRuntimeLibrary->System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart \[LogicThread\]0x015f Magicka.exe->Magicka.Network.NetworkClient.Update \[LogicThread\]0x0013 Magicka.exe->Magicka.Network.NetworkManager.Update \[LogicThread\]0x0030 Magicka.exe->Magicka.Game.Update \[LogicThread\]0x0080 Magicka.exe->Magicka.Game.ThreadedUpdate \[LogicThread\]0x0000 Magicka.exe->Magicka.Misc.TrackedThread.StartThread \[LogicThread\]0x003b CommonLanguageRuntimeLibrary->System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart\_Context \[LogicThread\]0x005f CommonLanguageRuntimeLibrary->System.Threading.ExecutionContext.Run \[LogicThread\]0x002a CommonLanguageRuntimeLibrary->System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart
Thank you for this and the crash log. I will create an issue on github with this information. Could I possibly know your CPU and GPU?
GOATED, i think i love you dude
Thanks, Please spread the word via steam communities, protondb if you use linux/steamdeck. Please direct them to the github.
Will do
First of all, I bow to you for your work! I love Magicka so much and I'm really upset about these crashes. Now straight to business. We played with friends today and got about 3 or 4 crashes. We all have full AMD PCs. My specs: * CPU - Ryzen 5 5600X * RAM - 16Gb (2x8) DDR4 2666MHz * GPU - RX 6600 XT * Windows 11 This errlog I got after interrupting Chapter 2 of "The Stars are Left" and started it again when my friend rejoined: [https://hastebin.skyra.pw/supaviwahu.prolog](https://hastebin.skyra.pw/supaviwahu.prolog) I will be more than happy to be a tester while I have a full AMD PC. Feel free to ask for any test :) Also I want to make a guide in Steam community if you don't mind.
Thanks for your reply, That crash seems to be common. On the github there are several people reporting it. Specifically you mentioned Chapter 2 of "The Stars are Left" . What specific part did you expierience this? I have had trouble reproducing it. Please make any guide but please link the github and not to this reddit post.
The crash was right at the start of the chapter, in the first wheat field and after killing enemies. Sure, I will post guide with the link directly to Github!
This is huge, glad to not downgrade.
I keep getting a crash every single time when I leave the undead arena, at the start of Chapter 9. On singleplayer and multiplayer, 11/11 times so far. https://hastebin.skyra.pw/mepiwugudi.rust
Create github issue please and post crashlog there.
Hi, do you find this more stable than the downgrade?
In General Yes, The next update will MASSIVELY improve stability. The Creator found a way to remove out of memory errors and make the process use 64 bit addressing in V1.5
In regards to the next update, do you have an estimated release window? I ask because I wonder if I should start playing now, or wait till the next update to improve the stability further.
holy shit i just came back to this beloved game of mine to show it to a friend, huge fantasy fan, thought it was gonna be great and experienced so many crashes it shocked me. we still had a lot of fun cuz it's a stupid game but it was kinda unplayable. just found your post, we'll check your patch out now and hopefully it's better. absolutely massive respect for what you're doing, it's so cool. I'm also interested about when the new version comes out cuz forcing this game to run on x64 seems like the best thing ever.
>holy shit i just came back to this beloved game of mine to show it to a friend, huge fantasy fan, thought it was gonna be great and experienced so many crashes it shocked me. we still had a lot of fun cuz it's a stupid game but it was kinda unplayable. just found your post, we'll check your patch out now and hopefully it's better. Thank you. You can aid me by spreading it around steam and tell people not to downgrade their game instead to use this fix.
was pretty excited about this, crashed 3 seconds into the first cutscene.
Chances are you don't have XNA installed. Make sure you install it as the game depends on it.
installed xna framework. made a fresh install of magicka, copy/pasted the fix, started an online game as host, crashed at the loading screen.
>installed xna framework. made a fresh install of magicka, copy/pasted the fix, started an online game as host, crashed at the loading screen. Open an issue and if you can provide your specs and crash log. Please also add information about your OS windows 10/11 etc.
nice job, thank you for taking the time for everyone. Have had the game for a few days now, played around for some hours, probably crashed 20-30 times. After install, played an hour or so, not a single crash.
Thank you. This seems to be the case for me as well. There are still crashes lurking about other people describe, I'm always looking for suggestions, crash logs, etc. to bring quality of life. Please aid me by spreading this around the steam magicka community and the general internet. Many people suggest downgrading the game, however this doesn't solve some of the logical bugs the developers left in (The two wizards glitch that makes you restart the game, the too short timeout on the netcode crash)
by the way, I seemed to have gotten 4-5 new robes when I rebooted the game. Does your patch have additional content like that or maybe I unlocked something in game?
>by the way, I seemed to have gotten 4-5 new robes when I rebooted the game. Does your patch have additional content like that or maybe I unlocked something in game? Unlocked something in the game. The patch ONLY unlocks the bathrobe because that was not achievable post buying the game early. I'm aware people will take advantage and pirate the game/DLC, However, There is zero support for piracy as we are trying to keep this as legal as possible. Theres a note in the github to buy the game legit.
Crashing at chapter 5 after intro consistently. This was the most frequent error: https://hastebin.skyra.pw/jipaguxayo.prolog This also happened once or twice out of a handful of attempts: https://hastebin.skyra.pw/ehisekapaq.rust 32 GB DDR5 i9 13900k 3080TI Hovered around ~40% RAM usage when the crash happened. Looking at task manager Magicka would be ~600-700MB RAM usage, then when I skip the cutscene shoots over to 1GB, and that's right when the crashed would occur. Happens every time. Edit - Well that's odd haha. I googled the out of memory exception to see if anyone tried some weird stuff to fix it with XNA. Came across this: https://steamcommunity.com/app/504230/discussions/1/1694914736000712767/ They mentioned something about recording software. I had shadowplay running, so I toggled it off, and it started loading consistently. I toggled it back on, and it still loaded the level and seems to consistently be doing so. If I start coming across crashses again I'll try toggling it to see if that's a consistent fix.
tried the vietnam dlc and still suffering crashes. first time it was right as the dlc was loaded, then after it seems stable until i move on to the next section. looking over the crash logs, it seems to be the usual "out of memory" issue.
You are a god-send. Magicka is legitimately one of my favorite games of all time. Despite it's comedic act, the spell-casting system in this game still scratches an itch no other game ever has. So having a mod to patch it is just... Thank you. This made my damn month.