Correcting corrupted data - umber hulks

Celacena · Post by **Celacena** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:42 am

whenever UHs appear on screen, the game crashes (error 250) - I have re-installed, added ToB, patched and baldurdashed.

I have worked round it - getting past the one in the paintings room was a massive achievement - I managed to get out of line of sight of the UH before the "fog of war" cleared by nipping around the corner.

there are places ahead when I will not be able to do that and the game will become unplayable.

I need a non-corrupt file to replace the umber hulk data - or some mod which can allow me to correct it. only UHs seem to produce the effect.

I have even tried to buy a replacement copy of BGII, but without any success.

any solutions?

Earnest · Post by **Earnest** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 10:33 am

Never heard of anything like this before. Only suggestions i can think of would be to use Near Infinity (or similar) and edit the umber hulk data yourself - if you can identify the likely cause and remove it. Alternatively you could replace the umber hulk data with data from another creature (squirrel?) which doesnt crack your system. This could possibly be achieved with basic copy/pasting/renaming in the override folder (after making relevant backups of course).

fable · Post by **fable** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 12:17 pm

If it happens with a replacement version of the game, it sounds as though the corruption is in the save file. Can you go back to a slightly older save game, and see if it continues to happen?

Celacena · Post by **Celacena** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 7:59 am

Replacement

I haven't been able to buy BGII locally for some reason and amazon had little to offer - so I haven't replaced it, despite trying. the umber hulk crashes have happened with 2 different run-throughs - different characters - different save files - at first I thought it was mind-flayers causing the crash, but in the sewers one came forward and the game didn't crash so I realised that UH were the only different creature there. I managed to get through that section and Nalia's quests without them coming into view. most times I know where they will be and insta-kill them with cloudkill, but I'm now facing the problem where they are in locations that I can't get through without seeing them. having deliberately gone the long way round to Underdark, there are maybe a few hours play left in the game until I must face an UH and progress no further.

I did wonder if I could replace all UH with something else - or at least the graphic of something else as it appears to be seeing them on screen rather than them existing that crashes the system. I reckon it is the file that specifies the graphic for the UH that is corrupted, but I can't trace it.
if there was one in the ToB expansion, I could paste it in, I suppose.
does icewind dale contain such a file? neverwinter nights? I'm sure that replacing a small amount of corrupted data would work.

would blackisle be likely to help?

Near Infinity? I may need some help with that.