Technical Help please: Crashing at Cult of the Eyeless

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Hi all,

I was wondering if someone here might have any idea what I can do.

Inspired by the journal at the Baldurdash site, I've been playing a solo mage, and have just taken him down into the sewers under the temple district to start hunting down the Cult of the Eyeless.

The problem I have is that as soon as I leave the area via the exit in the Northwest, getting me into the Upper Reaches, within about 30 seconds the game crashes.

The screen goes black, there is a "windows exclamation" noise, as if an windows error message had been shown, and then it sort of alt-tabs out to the desktop. There is no error message from Windows, the top left portion of my screen in black (and the size of the black bit is correct for the resolution of the game - i.e. I get a 1024x768 sized black area). BG2 shows as not responding, and I cannot get back into the game.

I've tried disabling 3d, dropping down to a lower resolution, disabling EAX, and dropping my screen resolution down to the same as that of the game, to no avail.

My system is a Win2k machine with SP2 installed, hardware wise I have a GeForce2 Ultra, an SB Live, and an Athlon processor (probably all that's relevant here.)

Has anyone come across this before, have any idea what I can do? All my saves are immediately before this point, and while I can just avoid doing that whole quest, I feel kinda cheated.

Thanks guys, I hope some genius here can help cos I'm kinda stumped.

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Kal Choedan
Keeper of the Sacred Chao

 

do you have the latest patch? maybe thats the problem othewise I don't know

 

The latest and only patch, presumably?

Yeah, I have the patch.

I've also been using the fixpack from Baldurdash, and I've tried both with and without that, makes no difference.

It sucks to be me, I know, I know

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Kal Choedan
Keeper of the Sacred Chao

 

Perhaps You have ToB installed. They Give some bugs with 2K. Earlier today I read from the news page that some fixes to have been released here at this Link: http://www.bioware.com/bg2tob/bg2tobpatch.shtml

Credit should go to someone "Darien" a moderator I think, who made the article at the news page with this link

PS: Dont You think You get tired of Writing that greeting "kal Choedan keeper of the sacred chao" after 500 post?

[This message has been edited by The Nomad (edited June 28, 2001).]

 

Have you tried to disable the buffering? I'm not quite sure if that'll help...
If the problem was in your system or something else like that the game would crash when you start it. Not when you are in the cult of the eyeless. Maybe you should e-mail the support.

[This message has been edited by Vicsun (edited June 28, 2001).]

 

No ToB, we don't get it here in the UK for another few weeks.

Disable buffering? What do you mean, exactly?

Weirdly, I have tried installing BG identically on another PC (also Win2k, also SP2, very similar hardware) copying the save across, and I am able to play fine.

If I move around some then copy the save back... it crashes after some 20-30 secs, same as before.

It's only in this one area (so far)... very very strange.

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Kal Choedan
Keeper of the Sacred Chao
Almost bored of typing this, but now quite...

 

Perhaps a file is corrupted (from the area you enter). Did you try to uninstall the game and install it back?

 

One reinstall later, and all is well!

I no longer trust my DVD drive, of course....

Thanks!

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Kal
tired of typing it now

 

glad you figured it out, cause it sure stumped me while i was reading it.

Renegarde