Santa Monica crashes...

ForgottenChilde · Post by **ForgottenChilde** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 6:21 pm

What is it with me and having issues? Lol. Anyway... so, I'm downtown, right... Well, I've spoken with the cab driver several times in an attempt to get back to Santa Monica... However, each time I select Santa Monica on the map, the game half-loads it and then crashes. It's really quite irritating... How do I fix this?
-Sincere Thanks,
Tyrea Adoaine

Faust · Post by **Faust** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:21 pm

[QUOTE=ForgottenChilde]What is it with me and having issues? Lol. Anyway... so, I'm downtown, right... Well, I've spoken with the cab driver several times in an attempt to get back to Santa Monica... However, each time I select Santa Monica on the map, the game half-loads it and then crashes. It's really quite irritating... How do I fix this?
-Sincere Thanks,
Tyrea Adoaine[/QUOTE]

You might be able to take the sewers back to the Santa Monica, though. It might cause the same problems, but it would be worth experimenting with.

Otherwise, my only suggestion would be to make sure you have all the patches downloaded (you might even try the unofficial patches). Uninstall/reinstall as needed. Sorry!

yrthwyndandfyre · Post by **yrthwyndandfyre** » Fri Jul 15, 2005 9:43 pm

Truely and quel bummer. The problem you describe I have never even heard of, and a re-install might be all you have.

programmer · Post by **programmer** » Fri Jul 22, 2005 11:36 pm

possible solution

I had a similar problem with chinatown. I could never get into
the place without it crashing. I finally tried deleting the chinatown hub
file in Vampire\maps\graphs, and that worked. I haven't had the
problem since then.

Anyway, find the loc file, I think it's sp_taxiride.loc, and move it somewhere
else -- like on your desktop and see if you can ride the cab. If it doesn't
work, just put the file back.

I think that, over time, these files might get corrupt, but they get
created again if they aren't there when they're needed.

programmer · Post by **programmer** » Sat Jul 23, 2005 12:18 am

oops -- wrong file

Correction on my last reply. I misread what you said. If you can't
get into Santa Monica, then the file to delete would be sm_hub_1.loc
or sm_hub_2.loc -- just delete any file that starts with sm_hub

Tenser · Post by **Tenser** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 3:42 am

Oh, the Vampire/maps directory is dynamic, too ?

Strange way of programming, but oh well, good to know.

ForgottenChilde · Post by **ForgottenChilde** » Tue Jul 26, 2005 3:44 am

I fixed this long long long ago... Turns out my computer is just a piece of crap. I'll have to have someone buy me a new one...