Land the client-side empty-My-Packs resolver evidence and the session-stability
invariant established by the F3/R1 experiments.
- PART III (F3, CONFOUNDED CRASH): a mid-process sentinel -> no-sentinel flip
left a stale POSITIVE My-Packs ordinal that still took the resolve branch and
crashed at 0x180014882. Preserved verbatim (not a guard failure).
- PART IV (R1, SUCCESS): backend set no-sentinel first, then a FRESH FIFA
process; genuine purchasegroup response ids [1,5,6,7] is byte-identical to the
F3 capture, so client process lifetime is the only changed variable. Store
opens on Browse Packs, no crash, no dialog. Guard PROVEN on the tested build.
- New INVARIANT: empty-My-Packs capability MUST be session-stable -- the server
must not switch a running client between sentinel-present and sentinel-absent
for the My Packs group within one FIFA process, because the client caches the
group ordinal and a stale positive ordinal still crashes the resolver.
- Both no-sentinel captures kept: client_guard (F3) and freshretest (R1).
Backend P2 active-sentinel (65534) remains production default; no capability
handshake is implemented yet.
Full investigation record for bug 6c: baseline + Experiments A/B/C', Candidate F (contradicted), the explicit active-placeholder selection test, the minidump-confirmed CardsDLL crash, and the P2 decision. Marks ROOT CAUSE ESTABLISHED and documents the known UX limitations and the client-side follow-up.
Files: docs/evidence/STORE_TILE_6C.md, docs/evidence/FIFA17_EMPTY_MYPACKS_CLIENT_CONTRACT.md, the four genuine /store/purchasegroup captures (baseline, mypacks70, empty_no_sentinel, active_placeholder), and docs/plans/FIFA17_EMPTY_MYPACKS_CLIENT_FIX.md (client-side design/research).