The game shares Resistance: Retribution's effect engine, smoke trails and all: a trail gets a
new node on every update while the nodes expire by the effect's clock, so the faster the game
runs the more smoke there is. When the tank explodes, the smoke grows the display list past its
500KB buffer at a steady 60fps (an overclocked CPU gets there), the list runs into the heap and
the game crashes on a bone array it overwrote. Hook the same two functions as in Resistance:
nodes at most every 1/30 of the effect's clock, and the overflow guard as a backstop. At 428MHz
the list now peaks at 351KB, against 512KB and a crash before.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
