Help, thoughts or suggestions - ***Warning Spoilers***

Polynikes · #1 (**permalink**) 10-07-2004, 02:55 PM

I have been playing TOEE and doing well. I have a Chaotic Good party and the following 3 NPC's in it. Elmo, Zaxis & Scorpp. I opted to kill Prince Thrommel because he is annoying and its a pain to get him out and of course I really wanted to get Fragarach.

Went on to the 4th level and was doing fine. Got into the battle with Hedrack the High Priest and killed him. Now here is the problem. I leave the dungeon to go back to Hommlet.

Everything is okay until I am out of the dungeon. When I click on the world map and then go to travel to Hommlet the game just crashes and shuts down and I am on my desktop page. I can reload the game to the point where I last saved but every time I leave the dungeon, go to world map, and then try to travel anywhere actually not just Hommlet the game crashes.

Any thoughts on what bug this is and how to fix it?

zhuge · #2 (**permalink**) 10-07-2004, 08:02 PM

Consistent CTD on a WorldMap change has been documented before but has not been reproducible. Pass your saved files to me (zipped) at zhugetx@yahoo.com. I'll deliver them to Steve Moret (ToEE lead programmer) if I can reproduce the bug.

If you have a series of earlier saves, that might help in figuring out at which point this bug took place. Just reload a few saves before and see if you can still travel on the WorldMap.
Hope your characters have no persistent spell effects on. Also try dismissing an NPC or two.

I also hope you have already patched with the 2nd official patch. There were quite a number of CTD problems fixed in the official patches.

Polynikes · #3 (**permalink**) 10-07-2004, 08:57 PM

Zhuge,

Thanks for the reply. Unfortunately I think my characters are all under the effects of the Bardic Music spell Increase courage. Is this considered a persistent spell effect? I did save the game at an earlier point and have games with different aligned parties and for those I can still travel around the world map.

I forget if I started this game before I downloaded the latest patch. What does CTD stand for? I'm sorry but I don't know how to save my TOEE files to a ZIP and send it to you.

Thanks again for your help.

zhuge · #4 (**permalink**) 10-08-2004, 04:05 AM

All saved files are in the Temple of Elemental Evil/modules/ToEE/Save folder. A complete saved game comprises of 5 separate files. These are:
1).tfai file
2).tfaf file
3).gsi file
4)a large image file (ie .jpg format) which ends with l
5)a small image file (ie .jpg format) which ends with s

Select them all and if you have WinZip, you will be able to create a zipped file containing all of them. Mail the zipped file then to me.

CTD stands for "Crash to Desktop". It happens uncommonly with other games when say a memory leak occurs or some other particular glitch but appears to be a more persistent problem with ToEE.

Polynikes · #5 (**permalink**) 10-08-2004, 02:22 PM

Zhuge,

Thanks again for your quick reply and answers to my questions. I downloaded Winzip. I don't have a lot of experience working with zip files so I'm trying to figure out how to zip the TOEE save files.

The email process is hard for me because I play the game on my personal laptop and have internet access on that through AOL and don't have my IE setup so I have to figure out how to save the zip file and then get on the internet and send it through my yahoo email.

I hope this makes sense. Anyway I appreciate your help.

Polynikes