GAAAAAAAAAAAH! Random crashes! (Spoilerish)

Ron_Lugge · #1 (**permalink**) 09-14-2003, 08:26 PM

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I'd just gotten his heart extinguished, so I went ahead and attacked his base. I was holding my own (barely!) and starting to forge ahead against his army. He shows up, and I have my mage (re) cast project image, then a timestop-alacricity-"Every spell in the book"-combo from the image. My timestop runs out (after I unloaded so many spells that it caused my screen to freeze!) and managed to get him to die. Then, instead of visiting with the solar...

I crashed. !@(*#&%(@#*&%*(#@&% I'd waded through I don't know how many of his troops, used up 3 project images (out of 5, I think...) and killed that **** *****, and instead of saving, I DIE!

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Yeah, I'm upset. Any ideas on how to stop this random crashing? Normally, I go to the desktop with a dialog box saying "BG2 caused errors, windows is creating an error log and shutting it down." This last time, I just had a black box that I had to use task manager to shut down. (I run my screen at a high resolution than BG; I'm guessing that if I compared the two the black box in the upper left would have been the 800X600 the game runs at)

Balinor · #2 (**permalink**) 09-14-2003, 09:22 PM

It's not just you. That same thing has happened to me at that exact same moment, so you're not alone. I wish I could tell you some clever way of keeping that from happening, but all I could do was just load up a save and beat him again.

Ron_Lugge · #3 (**permalink**) 09-14-2003, 10:02 PM

After a bazilion tries (alright, 5!) I figured out a way to not have it happen. Use ctrl-J to skip over the bridge, and the monsters don't spawn. Use lots of rests, and eventually yaga-sura comes back after being run off to "get reinforcements". (I probably coulda just sat and waited, but I figured his return was based on game-time so it'd be quicker to rest. And, if I was wrong and it was based off of troops-killed, then the FGs I was killing would get his attention).

IHateUsernames · #4 (**permalink**) 09-15-2003, 07:00 AM

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Originally posted by Ron_Lugge
After a bazilion tries (alright, 5!) I figured out a way to not have it happen. Use ctrl-J to skip over the bridge, and the monsters don't spawn. Use lots of rests, and eventually yaga-sura comes back after being run off to "get reinforcements". (I probably coulda just sat and waited, but I figured his return was based on game-time so it'd be quicker to rest. And, if I was wrong and it was based off of troops-killed, then the FGs I was killing would get his attention).

He returns after 2-5 seconds, so no ned to rest. Have no idea about the crashes.