Couldn't Start Game

[max]

Hello everyone

I installed the latest beta 0.96 version of exult on my win98 and have specified the serpent isle dir during the installation process.
However after installing, i ran exult and clicked on "Begin New Adventure" for SI(something like that), and immediately after that exult self-exited and brought me back to windows with no error messages.

stderr.txt :
Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)

stdout.txt :
Exult V0.96beta1.
Data path = data
Audio system assembled. Audio buffer at 16384
4 Midi Devices Detected
Listing midi devices:
-1: MIDI Mapper
0: Creative S/W Synth
1: A: SB Live! MIDI Synth
2: B: SB Live! MIDI Synth
3: SB Live! MIDI Out [10C0]
Using device -1: MIDI Mapper
Internal Win32 Midiout Midi Player for Exult.
Created PCB 0
Created PCB 1
Created PCB 2
Created PCB 3
Created PCB 4
Created PCB 5
Audio initialisation OK
is_installed: ./static/endgame.dat
is_installed: c:\uc\serpent/static/sispeech.spc
Audio subsystem request: Custom Music track
setting game directories to: c:\uc\serpent


This exact same problem has happened to me in all the previous versions of exult i installed, which is why i couldnt play the game at all.
What gives?

[Dominus]

hmm, strange.
I'm not sure why that happens. Maybe it has something to do with how you set up the paths in exult.cfg.
I guess you have installed Exult in c:\uc\ultima7...
Try that:
install Exult to c:\uc\exult and set the paths in the installer accordingly (for Blackgate c:\uc\ultima7 and for Serpent Isle c:\uc\serpent).
Does this work?

[max]

I tried the above method but it still couldnt work.

It gave the same error messages.

I never changed any paths to SI in exult.cfg because it was already pointing to the correct directory of c:\uc\serpent.

I tried installing exult at c:\, c:\uc and c:\uc\exult respectively but all couldnt work too.

[Dominus]

can't figure this one out.

[wjp]

Does The Black Gate work properly?

[max]

Both cannot work properly.

Anyway i just want to play SI only

[Kurt]

hmm, I'm having the same problem with SI after installing the beta version of exult, actually. BG is still fine. exactly the same error message.

[Kurt]

argh, okay, scratch that.
when i try to start a new game in SI, I get that same message as above
Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)

when I try to journey onwards, i am told that npc.dat is missing
now I don't remember deleting that particular file, and SI worked just fine before I installed the beta of exult... so something is wrong.

can anyone email me the SI npc.dat (it's in the gamedat dir) please, and I'll see if I can get it working again

adam.palethorpe@blueyonder.co.uk if you can help, thank you

[nadir]

gamedat is regenerated from static/initgame.dat every time you start a new game. A save game is also a packed version of gamedat.

[Bardock]

I have the same problem, please help us!

[nadir]

Firstly, delete your gamedat directories. Then post you exult.cfg and the paths where you have installed the games.