FFEdit Crashing

[BentonGrey]

Howdy guys, I'm just wondering if anyone else has encountered this knows a way to deal with it.  So, I was having trouble adding my huge last batch of characters to the Dat for the MA mod.  The game kept freezing trying to do it through the RR, so I decided to do it through Alex's EZ Hero tool.  They added fine that way, but now (and if this existed before this point, I didn't notice it), there are certain characters that I am unable to edit in FFEdit because it crashes when I try and save those edits.  So far I'm only certain it is happening in the characters tab, and for specific characters, notably, xforge, and I can't see any reason why he would be exceptional.  Has anyone encountered things like this before?

Windows 10, Steam version, running FFEdit in compatibility mode for XP SP 2 and as administrator.

[abenavides]

Really hard to say for sure. But one possibility - when you imported the heroes via EZHEro - are you sure it was set to FFv3R and not FF.
There are minor differences between FF and FFv3r hero structures which could possible make them do strange things. (though I've never see one become uneditable)

[BentonGrey]

I'm sure, Alex.  My guess, considering that I was having problems with the in-game method, is that the problem lay with the file, and not with EZ Hero.

[spydermann93]

I don't think you need to run FFEdit in Compatibility Mode.

I can run the tool just fine and I'm using Windows 10 as well.

Perhaps try adding fewer heroes at a time? I know I ran into memory issues when I modified too much with FFEdit all at one time (I was using the ChangeActiveDefense script, but it might be related), and that caused FFEdit to crash.

[Cyber Burn]

I had this problem as well. Turned out that there was an issue with the FX, which caused both EZHero and the game to crash.

[abenavides]

To back up what SM said, I'm running FFEDIT (adding FX) without any compatibility mode and it's been fine.
The memory thing is also a good point. Try doing smaller batches of updates and see if that helps. (Very interested as I will eventually need to build JLA dats!)

[BentonGrey]

I've had trouble with FFEdit in Windows 8, so I figured it was better safe than sorry.  Y'all think it works fine without compatibility mode?

I've discovered a work around.  If a character causes FFEdit to crash, I delete them and recreate them.  That seems to solve it, at least on the back end.

[spydermann93]

Well, that's one way of doing it, lol

But yeah, it works fine without being in compatibility mode for me.

[BentonGrey]

Well, that's actually not as bad as it sounds, as I'm only deleting the CHARACTER entry, not the whole thing, and I held on to my HFs, so I could easily recreate them from that example.

[spydermann93]

So I found out what might be causing the issue:

A lot of characters have powers that exceed the 29 character limit and whenever you try and save a character with a power like that, FFEdit crashes.

Found quite a few cases with several heroes. Still going through them all and fixing them, though, so there might be more.

[BentonGrey]

Spyder, nice work, you might just be right!  I'll need to adjust their strings entries to match truncated power names.

[spydermann93]

I've been working on them, so if you want, once I'm done, I can send the new Powers.dat to you so all you have to do are the strings

[BentonGrey]

That would be welcome, Spyder, but remember, if you edit the powers, you also have to delete and re-add them to the character, so keep a list!