Haven't heard of this before

yrthwyndandfyre · Post by **yrthwyndandfyre** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 7:46 pm

For some reason, my present game has decided to hang when I try to enter the Santa Monica haven. It doesn't crash, it doesn't report an error, it doesn't do anything. Activate the door, the progress bar makes it about 40% of the way across, and it stops. Period. The only way to recover is to restart the computer.

I have already re-installed from scratch, so that's not the solution.

Config: Athlon 64 x 2 3 Ghz dual core w/ 1 Gb Ram, Radeon Express 200 series w/ 256 Mb Ram. Windows 32-bit Multi-media Edition, current build, patched to current levels. Video driver has no upgrades available. VTMB patched to 1.2.

So. Any ideas?

CaptRory · Post by **CaptRory** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 7:55 pm

Do you mod your game at all or listen to the ingame music or sound effects in Windows Media Player?

mr_sir · Post by **mr_sir** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:06 pm

mine does that every now and then - the load bar just kind of stops. it only happens once or twice per entire run through though (and in different areas) and its usually solved by a full restart. i did have one prob with another game once, in that it crashed and froze and i had to shut down my pc. while doing so, one of the load files or something got damaged and it would not load areas anymore. i scanned my drives on my pc and repaired them (using the inbuilt function on windows - the hard drive scanning thing) and it worked perfectly after that (didn't even have to reinstall the game - i tried this first and it didn't solve the problem). its prob not the same prob but it might be worth trying.

yrthwyndandfyre · Post by **yrthwyndandfyre** » Fri Feb 03, 2006 11:09 pm

Mods: None. Full vanilla. I haven't even opened up the game folder except to dike it out completely before the re-install. I gouged out the registry, too.

It also happens every time. The most recent effort (after I drifted off and did a bunch of other stuff without going back) went about 60% before it froze. I can reproduce the problem faithfully ten times in ten minutes, but I don't have source code.

CaptRory · Post by **CaptRory** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 12:13 am

You can try cross posting this on PlanetVampire and seeing if someone there can help.

yrthwyndandfyre · Post by **yrthwyndandfyre** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 8:18 am

No Point

Not worth the effort. I finished Snuff 2 and gave the tape to Isaac, and then went back and Isaac didn't have the tape, and I hadn't finished the quest. I also had already finished the Gargoyle quest, and it wasn't done either, even though I had the haven. The game is totally messed up. There is no way to fix this short of starting a new game.

CaptRory · Post by **CaptRory** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 10:39 am

That's terrible. I wonder what fouled up the game so badly.

yrthwyndandfyre · Post by **yrthwyndandfyre** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:12 am

You and I both.