Celebration day. 90 days without crashes!

When purging my backups i realized that yesterday it was 90 days since the last toolset crash. I know I may upset the Eight Gods of System Crashes by saying so and that I probably will regret it soon. During this period of peace I have done 1 542 saves without a toolset crash! That's about 462 Terrabytes written down to disk.

I believe this is why it has worked so fine for me:

1. I'm using Directory Mode so the toolset don't have to pack/un-pack a huge .mod-file during every save.
2. I'm not using HAK-packs during development. Every file resides in the override folder until the game is finished.
3. When working with the toolset. I kill my Antivirus and deactivate my Internet connection. If I need Internet access I use Terminal Server Client to a computer with the connection.
4. Only two programs are allowed to be started simultaneously. The NWN2Toolset and the NWN2Main, no mail, no paint, no notepad, nothing. I even stop some of the memory intensives WinXP services that usually run via a script.
5. I have an egg cooking timer that beeps every two hours. Then I save and exit both the toolset and the client to get rid of memory leaks. If I see that WinXP don't get it back I sometimes restart the whole OS.

You may thing this routine is complicated. Well, I'm pretty used to it now and it's a LOT LESS WORK THAN REPAIRING and REBUILDING a crashed module.

Now I'm off to work and I'll buy myself some nice cake to celebrate this joyful event :)

Have a nice day everybody, and thanks for reading, as always.
/Amraphael