crashes after purchasing from Jade's Market

It seems that there is no longer a problem leaving Jade's Market as long as I don't use Front-end to start the game. Even if I don't check Allyx's starting equipment during installation, it will crash once I hit Begin Adventure.

So, should I resign myself to scrapping Front-end? If so, should I add a second installation of TOEE in a different directory so that I can play KotB and keep both modules operational on my hard disk? What say you, Super Moderator?

 

Since I cannot get Front-end working, I should NOT apply the 5.0.5 CMF?

 

In addition to the above question, I suppose there is no way for me to get windows mode w/o Front-end. If there is a way, please let me know.

 

Simply add -window to the ToEE shortcut, and also I think :questionm there are no problems with 5.0.5 without Front-End, just extract and overwrite, but don't use the TempleFrontend.exe

 

-window ????

Do you mean to the shortcut properties? In fact, the default is "Normal Window" with two other choices: minimized and maximized. None of those changes anything.

 

Sorry for not being more specific.

In the shortcut properties, the Target: field should have
"C:\Program Files\Atari\Temple of Elemental Evil\TOEE.EXE"
or wherever you installed to, simply add a space and -window to the end, making it
"C:\Program Files\Atari\Temple of Elemental Evil\TOEE.EXE" -window

Presto.

 

Thanks to all who helped.

I wonder if the title of this thread should be changed now that it has been diagnosed as a Front-end issue.

 

Ha! Just my luck. I finally started with my real characters (not just test ones), bought my stuff at Jade's and it crashed the same way again. Perhaps it wasn't a Front-end problem afterall.

Fortunately after re-loading twice I got to the NE vignette and then to Hommelt (had to do it twice because the lucky bastage acolyte scored a crit on my cleric and killed him). Reloading never succeeded when I was using Front-end. Strange.

Depending on how things progress, I may test out Front-end again.

 

Just curious, are you using Ferell's Character Editor (think that's the name of it)? I downloaded it recently and used it to give my characters the ability scores of the original characters from my tabletop group in our PnP run through ToEE. When I edited one of the characters, I changed his Intelligence score, then modified his skills accordingly. When I reloaded and chose to "Begin Adventuring", I got a ctd. I remember you mentioned it happened to you earlier in the thread. Now, if I modify a character through the editor, I don't mess with the skills, I just make sure my priority is to set the Int score to whatever I want the completed character to have, at least the Int modifier anyway, that way you don't have to modify skills. I've never had a problem with any characters that I only modified abilities, only when I tried to modify skills due to changing the Int score. Don't know it that will help, but sounds like it couldn't hurt to mention it.

 

I had this problem last night and (after a couple of hours) noted the following:

1) Starting with a [Repeating] Crossbow -- due to Weapon Focus (not console) gives you 10 bolts of ammo as well.

2) Jade Weaponsmith sells 200 bolts.

3) Buying for (assigning to ) character with 10 free bolts (giving OC a quarrel of 210 bolts) causes crash when asking Jade to start game.

4) Move the 10 free bolts to another character before buying /assigning (so PC with xbow has just 200 from Jade) -- no CTD when starting game.

I note that Jade Weaponsmith sells 200 arrows and 200 stones -- the same error may occur; once my game worked, I didn't test any more.

--thearioch

 

Ah! Nice to see others having the same problem that I have been having (sorry).

On my side, none of my characters has so much amunition: only 20-30 stones & arrows.

I wonder if it is meaningful that both the music and words are repeating while it is crashing.

 

I wonder if the problems here have to do with the strange way (on my computer) the data has been incompletely added to the ToEE foler (no Front End) or, when I do use Front-end, that some data is not being properly incorporated into the Co8 module folder - in this case, the Vignettes.

Refer to my other thread DH/Hommlet quests.