crash when loading new game

[Tassloff]

Hi

I just dl Exult and when i start a new game just after the loading screen (red pixel screen) when i should appeard in Britannia, the game crash and leave. What can i do ??
I am running on windows 98 SE and i have setup the exult program like this :

Scaling method : triel all never worked
pallette fades : same
midi conversion : off
intro : off
first scene : off
full screen off
cheating : off

I hope you 'll help me
Thanks

[wjp]

Is there anything interesting in your stderr.txt, stdout.txt?

[Tassloff]

i forget to say i have tried Exult 1.00 and 1.1

my stdout say that :

Exult version 1.1.0cvs
Built at: Jun 17 2003 11:11:02
Compile-time options: USE_EXULTSTUDIO, HAVE_ZIP_SUPPORT
Compiler: gcc, version: 3.2.3 (mingw special 20030504-1)

Platform: Windows 98 Version 4.10 Build 1998
Data path = data
Music path = data/music
2 Midi Devices Detected
Listing midi devices:
-1: MIDI Mapper
0: SB PCI128 MIDI Synth
1: SB PCI128 MIDI Out
Using device -1: MIDI Mapper
Internal Win32 Midiout Midi Player for Exult and Pentagram.
is_installed: 'c:\windows\bureau\ultima7\static\endgame.dat': yes
is_installed: '.\static\sispeech.spc' : no
2 Midi Devices Detected
Listing midi devices:
-1: MIDI Mapper
0: SB PCI128 MIDI Synth
1: SB PCI128 MIDI Out
Using device -1: MIDI Mapper
Switching to fullscreen mode.
Starting a BLACK GATE game
Current path settings:
Static : c:\windows\bureau\ultima7\static
Gamedat : c:\windows\bureau\ultima7\gamedat
Savegame: c:\windows\bureau\ultima7
Patch : none

2 Midi Devices Detected
Listing midi devices:
-1: MIDI Mapper
0: SB PCI128 MIDI Synth
1: SB PCI128 MIDI Out
Using device -1: MIDI Mapper
is_installed: '.\static\sispeech.spc' : no
Skin is: 3 Sex is: 0
Creating 'gamedat' files.

and my stderr say that :

Unable to open device: MMSYSTEM004 Le périphérique spécifié est en cours d'utilisation. Attendez qu'il soit libre, puis essayez à nouveau.
Failure to initialize midi playing thread
Unable to open device: MMSYSTEM004 Le périphérique spécifié est en cours d'utilisation. Attendez qu'il soit libre, puis essayez à nouveau.
Failure to initialize midi playing thread
Digital SFX's file specified: jmsfx.flx... but file not found
Unable to open device: MMSYSTEM004 Le périphérique spécifié est en cours d'utilisation. Attendez qu'il soit libre, puis essayez à nouveau.
Failure to initialize midi playing thread
============================
An exception occured:
Error opening file c:\windows\bureau\ultima7\static\usecode
errno: 2
============================

[wjp]

> Error opening file c:\windows\bureau\ultima7\static\usecode

That's the problem, I would guess.

[Tassloff]

So what can i do to run the game without that error ?

[wjp]

Well, do you have that file? If not, why not?

[Tassloff]

Yes i did not have that file now i got it
so thx u very much it works now )

[artaxerxes]

Tassloff,

since you are french speaking (assumption based on your hostname), I'd like to inform you of SI-french, Serpent Isle in French.

The translation is finished and we are now in the correction part (typos, grammar errors and spelling errors), with daily updates of the patch.

We need testers to report bugs.

You can find the daily patch at the following address: http://si-french.sf.net/patch/

Our homepage is http://www.serpentisle.fr.st/
Our project page is http://sf.net/projects/si-french/

Give it a try please and report the bugs using our BugTrack page:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_i ... tid=460260

Thanks
Artaxerxes
co-lead si-french

(Edit: speaking of typos, I corrected the homepage URL -wjp )