Help and Stuff

[Svengo42]

Okay, so I am very new to this phorum. Ive tried everything (except hunting though the forum) because I really dont know where exactly the problem lies. And I figure there seems to be a lot of smart people on here who might be able to help me. If I am wrong in my posting, please let me know and I will do what I can to not let it happen again.

I am not very smart when it comes to technology. I cant find the problem, nor can I fix it. I can tell you that I have Windows XP and other than that...I know nothing.

I used to have exult on my computer. I believe it might have been the 1.2 version. Then my computer crashed and I lost everything. So I came here to download Exult again and discovered the 1.4.9 version. I installed it and found that everything was smaller and the whole red X though the sound. But that didnt bother me. I continued to play the game and was happy. Then things got weird. My game would lag really bad. It would glitch like crazy whenever i was trying to get in a carriage or fly on the magic carpet. I choose to suck it up and deal with it. Then things got worse. The game itself would crash for no reason. Then it started freezing and I would have to completely restart my computer. I went to go play it yesterday hoping i could just save a lot and suck it up. But when i loaded it the blue exult lettering in the opening screen was huge and I couldnt click on anything. When I just tried again it would show the huge lettering then crash. I tried to uninstall and reinstall today and the same thing keeps occurring. Huge letters then crash. I tried download an older version and it extracts itself but then I dont know what to do. I cant seem to get an exult icon or anything to pop up. I am at a loss and desperate. I seriously suck with computers and technology and fixing these kinds of issues.

This game is one of the greatest RPG's ever to me and I used to love playing it when I was a kid. I am sorry I have typed so much here, but if there is anything anyone can do to help me I would be so very appreciative. Once again I am sorry if this has been mentioned before or if the answer lies somewhere I have not seen. If anyone who wishes to help needs more information please let me know and I will get it to you.

Thank you for your time.
~Svengo

[TDI]

I'm not sure what the current state of Exult is, but it's possible that it runs glitchy at the moment. If you're desperate to play U7 you can always run the original U7 using www.dosbox.com

[Dominus]

First of all this sounds like you ran into the disappearing objects bug that eventually causes the game to crash. When you are running fullscreen it probably seemed like it took the whole system down, but that shouldn't happen.

Anyway, I recommend you nuke (delete) the exult.cfg (see http://exult.info/docs.php#exult_config_location) and also use the newest snapshot since some things got fixed since the 1.4.9rc1.
You probably need to rever to a savegame way before your game got weird.

[Friendly79]

I just finished playing through U7p1 myself and had the crashing problem as well...
The 1st 20 times it did it to me required a system restart..
After that I figured once it locks up, don't try and alt-tab, just hit the windows button in-between CTRL and ALT, this pretty much does the same as alt tab but puts the start menu on top.. this will allow your mouse to work and be visible.. from here its just a simple right click on the bar and close program.

dosent fix the problem but if you save often, it will take alot of the frustrastion away from having to reboot..
Thats only for if Dominus fix dosent help

[paulo]

Funny enough, once i built as debug mode my crashes went way too. Not sure if it is because of that or if i'm saving and reloading regularly.

[Svengo42]

Thank you so much! Im going to try and reinstall it now (now that I found the .cfg file). What are the best video/audio game play options?