Silent crash on auto-reload

[goldo]

Hi,

So I have a problem with auto-reload, it suddenly stopped working completely.

Here is what happens:
- I press Shift+R, auto-reload happens as normal
- The new game state is actually loaded
- Then the mouse cursor turns into a little rotating blue circle for half a second, and the game crashes to desktop
- There is no error, no traceback, nothing in the log

It is very similar to this issue: viewtopic.php?t=48493#p479810

But my video card and drivers are fine.

Since this started I've also had similar silent crashes on some rollbacks, but most rollbacks still work.

A couple of things I can think of that I did in the recent past:
* Someone told me that writing

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default persistent.my_variable = true

was better than

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define persistent.my_variable = true

so I changed that

Edit: Changing default to define and deleting all persistent data doesn't help.

* I loaded a player's broken save, and it threw an error about missing a return point. I couldn't ignore it, tried to rollback, it threw a string of errors at me and crashed the game

Can either of those issues have caused auto-reload to stop working?

[goldo]

Okay, plot twist: This is not about my project at all, I can open "The Question", and still auto-reload crashes to desktop. This is on a clean install of Ren'py too.

Edit: Turns out I have older versions of Ren'py still installed: 7.0.0 and 7.3.5 auto-reload correctly, but 7.4.9 and 7.4.11 both crash.

If it helps, here is the error I got from the Windows Event viewer:

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Faulting application name: pythonw.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x61a6b501
Faulting module name: MMDevAPI.DLL, version: 10.0.19041.1023, time stamp: 0x00c1ffe2
Exception code: 0xc0000005
Fault offset: 0x000000000001b33b
Faulting process id: 0x6d38
Faulting application start time: 0x01d80bff24ddc8d2
Faulting application path: D:\RenPy\renpy-7.4.9-sdk\lib\windows-x86_64\pythonw.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\MMDevAPI.DLL
Report Id: 72c56750-4c60-4c3e-840b-68ccbe45cb73
Faulting package full name:
Faulting package-relative application ID: