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Just recently, I have been having trouble starting BG. It used to work fine, but now whenever I choose it from the start up menu, my computer locks up to a black screen. I need to press CTRL-ALT-DEL and shut Exult down manually. I am using the 6.13 snapshot. The strange thing is that SI works fine. My stderr.txt file is empty and stdout.txt says the following:

Exult version 0.99.2cvs
Built at: Jun 13 2002 10:09:41
Compile-time options: DEBUG, USE_EXULTSTUDIO, HAVE_ZIP_SUPPORT
Compiler: gcc, version: 3.1

Platform: Windows 98 SE Version 4.10 Build 2222
Data path = data
Audio system assembled. Audio buffer at 22048
2 Midi Devices Detected
Listing midi devices:
-1: MIDI Mapper
0: DS-XG MPU401 OUT
1: DS-XG Synthesizer
Using device -1: MIDI Mapper
Internal Win32 Midiout Midi Player for Exult and Pentagram.
Created PCB 0
Created PCB 1
Created PCB 2
Created PCB 3
Created PCB 4
Created PCB 5
Audio initialisation OK
is_installed: 'c:\games\ultima\ultima7\static\endgame.dat': yes
is_installed: 'c:\games\ultima\serpent\static\sispeech.spc' : yes
Audio subsystem request: Custom Music track
Starting a BLACK GATE game
Okay. It looks like an IFF file chunk
length looks like: 1807418

Something else that's not related, there is no music in both BG and SI. But I have been reading several posts about this so it seems to be a common problem.

Hello? Nobody can help me?

I can't really read the error reports very well, but have you tried reinstalling everything game-related? It's generally the last thing I try, but I'm sure you've tried everything else.