Game crashes on traverse to Severed Hand
Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:58 am
Hi there, got a doozy for ya
Ok, this has happened in the last 3 games I played, I get near the end and it crashes. I've tried to search this problem on forums and can't find it.
I've finished the fields of slaughter area, and try to traverse to the severed hand area, it goes to the loading screen, loads about a quarter of the way then gives an error message saying the following:
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Runtime error!
Program:C:\Icewind Dale II\IWD2.exe
abnormal program termination
I'm running XP professional on a thinkpad 1.6Ghz with 512 ram. For graphics I've got an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500. Drivers for the particular card aren't listed on the ATI website (rad 7500 is, but not mobility rad 7500), but the drivers I have installed are from 2005 (so for a 2002-released card this would be OK?). The only thing that could relate to my problem from Extremist's Technical FAQ is the ATI thing. I haven't had any issues up until now so I can't see how it would be a hardware thing, however I'm open to suggestions.
One last thing, I reinstalled twice to try and fix the problem, and could only do a minimum install (which I'd done originally IIRC), with the recommended and full installation options giving the following error message about halfway through install:
Component Transfer error
Component: Recommended
File Group: Recommended Uncompressed - Language Independent
File: ANMuni1.bif
Error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check)
It doesn't seem related but I'm including it just in case. No probs with minimum installation.
Please help out with this because the last two games have done this - Fallout 1, crashed when I take the elevator to the Master's level (so close!!!) and ToB - crashed about 1 second into the final cutscene (even closer!!!).
Please help in making it third time lucky! Or else I think I'll have to quit computer games altogether
Ok, this has happened in the last 3 games I played, I get near the end and it crashes. I've tried to search this problem on forums and can't find it.
I've finished the fields of slaughter area, and try to traverse to the severed hand area, it goes to the loading screen, loads about a quarter of the way then gives an error message saying the following:
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library
Runtime error!
Program:C:\Icewind Dale II\IWD2.exe
abnormal program termination
I'm running XP professional on a thinkpad 1.6Ghz with 512 ram. For graphics I've got an ATI Mobility Radeon 7500. Drivers for the particular card aren't listed on the ATI website (rad 7500 is, but not mobility rad 7500), but the drivers I have installed are from 2005 (so for a 2002-released card this would be OK?). The only thing that could relate to my problem from Extremist's Technical FAQ is the ATI thing. I haven't had any issues up until now so I can't see how it would be a hardware thing, however I'm open to suggestions.
One last thing, I reinstalled twice to try and fix the problem, and could only do a minimum install (which I'd done originally IIRC), with the recommended and full installation options giving the following error message about halfway through install:
Component Transfer error
Component: Recommended
File Group: Recommended Uncompressed - Language Independent
File: ANMuni1.bif
Error: Data error (cyclic redundancy check)
It doesn't seem related but I'm including it just in case. No probs with minimum installation.
Please help out with this because the last two games have done this - Fallout 1, crashed when I take the elevator to the Master's level (so close!!!) and ToB - crashed about 1 second into the final cutscene (even closer!!!).
Please help in making it third time lucky! Or else I think I'll have to quit computer games altogether