Game crashing when scrolling through town

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  1. Sheik Yerbouti

    Sheik Yerbouti Member

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    I pretty much gave up on this game after all the bugs and whatnot, but decided to give it a go again, I reinstalled it, patched it up to 3, installed the Co8 patch and now when I am going to find Blackjack (I think that's his name), the game crashes when I scroll through the town. :censored:
    Also, it wouldnt even start w/o the Co8 patch. It would look as though it was going to start, then went back to the desktop, no error :angry:
    I would REALLY love to play this game, it had so much potential, any help would be appreciated.

    Thanks in advance!
     
    Sheik Yerbouti, Aug 10, 2005
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  2. Shiningted

    Shiningted I changed this damn title, finally! Administrator

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    Did you install my patch (Ted's Mod 1.0)? There ARE some issues near Black Jay's house, but these have never occured with a new game. (Indeed, they shouldn't).
     
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  3. Sheik Yerbouti

    Sheik Yerbouti Member

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    No, I haven't I installed it yesterday, played for a bit, it was crashing, so I uninstalled it, but kept my characters and imported them into the new install. Could that be the issue as well?
    Thanks for the help again.
     
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  4. KillerSonic

    KillerSonic Established Member

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    ~you know...i finished the tutorial and a miracle happened: my lag disappeared...try that:)
     
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  5. Sheik Yerbouti

    Sheik Yerbouti Member

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    I don't have lag. I have a crash. Lag I can deal with, I'd be happy with lag. It crashes.
     
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  6. Clinton

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    I was having that problem last year and got disgusted and gave up trying to play. As soon as I would start a game (usually just in the character creation mode) I would either lock up or get booted to the desktop. A couple months later, I upgraded my RAM to 512M and bought a new video card and things work fine.
     
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  7. KillerSonic

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    yes, that's what i meant....the game can deal with such areas when there isn't any lag...
     
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  8. Sheik Yerbouti

    Sheik Yerbouti Member

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    I don't think it's my system. I have a gig of low latency RAM, AMD64 3200+, BFG 6800, MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum. It handles Halflife2 well and Battlefield 2 well, I don't think this game is that big of a drain, comparitively. I just remember it being buggy as all getout.
     
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  9. the_arkane

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    i used to have a similar problem when moving great distances in town it would crash. it does not seem to do that after i patched with liv's. Im not sure if that actually fixed it or if it is just a coincident. try it anyway and let me know.
     
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  10. KillerSonic

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    if you have xp then that's the problem...xp SP2 isn't accepted by all games...
     
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  11. the_arkane

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    i have xp sp2. it runs ok. the only problem i have with it is during install, and i suspect it is due to scratches on disk. :shrug: ect .
     
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  12. Shiningted

    Shiningted I changed this damn title, finally! Administrator

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    If your 'crash near Black Jay' issue is related to my mod (probably isn't but lets be thorough) check in this folder:

    Program Files\Atari\Temple of Elemental Evil\modules\ToEE\maps\Map-2-Hommlet-Exterior

    If you see a file called 268435465.sec delete it, clear the maps cache and try again.

    Everyone else - this has been EXTENSIVELY tested and is VERY RARELY a problem, don't delete that file for the heck of it!!!
     
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  13. KillerSonic

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    ooh map cache...forgot to clean it
    *runs away*
     
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  14. Cerulean the Blue

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    When you say you installed the Co8 patch, did you install the moebius2778's temple.dll fix as well? It is almost necessary when playing with SP2. Also, Atari patch 3 is generally not recommended by most people here. Try it patched through Atari patch 2, add the Co8 patch and moebius2778's temple.dll.
     
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  15. Sheik Yerbouti

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    Well it seems that it doesn't crash now, unless I am looking at the world view map. Then it stutters like crazy and locks up. Sometimes it lets me get to the next area, but other times it locks up completely. I have to do a hard reset of the system. Is this a common error? Now, I have installed the ToEE patches 2 & 3 as well as the other required patches. Co8, and moebius.
    Thanks again
     
    Sheik Yerbouti, Aug 15, 2005
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