WorldBuilderZH crash on startup starting with weekly-2025-10-03

[killermosi]

Prerequisites

• I have searched for similar issues and confirmed this is not a duplicate

Game Version

• Command & Conquer Generals
• Command & Conquer Generals: Zero Hour
• Other (please specify below)

Bug Description

Starting with the 2025-10-03 weekly release, the WorldBuilderZH crashes on startup - previous two weekly releases worked fine - I retested.

Reproduction Steps

1. Update to weekly-2025-10-03 release or later.
2. Run WorldBuilderZH.exe

The editor starts up, shows the license agreement popup, then the splash screen, then the main window, and half a second later it closes without any explicit error message.

Note that the main window shows the toolbar, but it is otherwise devoid of content.

Additional Context

From the Event Viewer:

Faulting application name: WorldBuilderZH.exe, version: 0.8.0.0, time stamp: 0x68df9285
Faulting module name: WorldBuilderZH.exe, version: 0.8.0.0, time stamp: 0x68df9285
Exception code: 0xc000041d
Fault offset: 0x00156845
Faulting process id: 0x2058
Faulting application start time: 0x1DC3A8FA262EDD0
Faulting application path: G:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Command & Conquer Generals - Zero Hour\WorldBuilderZH.exe
Faulting module path: G:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Command & Conquer Generals - Zero Hour\WorldBuilderZH.exe
Report Id: a4b6a6c5-466c-43f0-915d-5ed25079a75f
Faulting package full name: 
Faulting package-relative application ID: 

[xezon]

 	WorldBuilderZH.exe!GameEngine::getActualLogicTimeScaleFps(unsigned int flags) Line 407	C++
 	WorldBuilderZH.exe!GameEngine::getActualLogicTimeScaleOverFpsRatio(unsigned int flags) Line 441	C++
 	WorldBuilderZH.exe!WaterRenderObjClass::update() Line 1213	C++
 	WorldBuilderZH.exe!DrawObject::Render(RenderInfoClass & rinfo) Line 2099	C++
 	WorldBuilderZH.exe!RTS3DScene::renderOneObject(RenderInfoClass & rinfo, RenderObjClass * robj, int localPlayerIndex) Line 815	C++
 	WorldBuilderZH.exe!RTS3DScene::Customized_Render(RenderInfoClass & rinfo) Line 1172	C++
 	WorldBuilderZH.exe!RTS3DScene::Render(RenderInfoClass & rinfo) Line 966	C++
 	WorldBuilderZH.exe!WW3D::Render(SceneClass * scene, CameraClass * cam, bool clear, bool clearz, const Vector3 & color) Line 980	C++
>	WorldBuilderZH.exe!WbView3d::render() Line 2123	C++
 	WorldBuilderZH.exe!WbView3d::redraw() Line 2067	C++
 	WorldBuilderZH.exe!WbView3d::OnPaint() Line 2353	C++
 	mfc140d.dll!60ad3a98()	Unknown
 	[Frames below may be incorrect and/or missing, no symbols loaded for mfc140d.dll]	
 	mfc140d.dll!60ad7e1d()	Unknown
 	mfc140d.dll!60ac84fa()	Unknown
 	mfc140d.dll!60ac9545()	Unknown
 	mfc140d.dll!607e213d()	Unknown
 	user32.dll!76699a73()	Unknown
 	user32.dll!76687bed()	Unknown
 	user32.dll!76687690()	Unknown
 	user32.dll!76693ef9()	Unknown
 	ntdll.dll!7735b646()	Unknown
 	mfc140d.dll!60a97d44()	Unknown
 	mfc140d.dll!608ec628()	Unknown
 	mfc140d.dll!60b12aec()	Unknown
 	WorldBuilderZH.exe!WinMain(HINSTANCE__ * hInstance, HINSTANCE__ * hPrevInstance, char * lpCmdLine, int nCmdShow) Line 26	C++
 	WorldBuilderZH.exe!invoke_main() Line 107	C++
 	WorldBuilderZH.exe!__scrt_common_main_seh() Line 288	C++
 	WorldBuilderZH.exe!__scrt_common_main() Line 331	C++
 	WorldBuilderZH.exe!WinMainCRTStartup(void * __formal) Line 17	C++
 	kernel32.dll!76415d49()	Unknown
 	ntdll.dll!7734d6db()	Unknown
 	ntdll.dll!7734d661()	Unknown

[xezon]

GameEngine does not exist in World Builder. I think we need to decouple time management from GameEngine class.

[killermosi]

Thanks @xezon!