Exult crashes upon being loaded

[Jacob Jorvang]

Hi all

I've played SI to Moonshade, after the Mountain of Freedom and after reassembling the party. After picking up the final party member and going about my business, I noticed that the secret door in the tall staircase to the magic shop was closed, even though I had opened it before going to the Mountain of Freedom. Puzzled, i opened the door/wall, quick-saved and headed down the stairs behind. The screen then turned black. I pressed Command+x and then y. This quit the game, so apperantly it hadn't hung.

I stated Exult, only to find the Exult menu screen replaced with a black screen with a few bits of graphics around the center. This included a red X, but very little else. The game then hung, forcing me to hard-reset my computer. I tried this a few times with the same result.

I tried deleting all the Exult files, including the Static folder. I compressed the savegame files in my home folder, put the .zip file on my desktop and deleted all the savegame files. I 're-installed' Exult, complete with static folder, and started it again, thinking that whatever caused the game to crash could no longer exist. Wrong, it did. Same result.

So now what? How do I stop Exult from crashing upon being loaded? I've deleted all relevant files I could find, so what else is there?

[Jacob Jorvang]

All savegame files available at:

http://homepage.mac.com/jacobjorvang/FileSharing2.html

[wjp]

It's most likely caused by the gamma values in your exult.cfg file being set to a very low value. exult.cfg is stored in ~/Library/Preferences on Mac OS X, if I remember correctly.

Either remove the gamma section entirely (everything between and ) or set all the values back to 1 manually to get the normal display back.

We'll try to fix the bug that causes these low gamma values to get written to disk...

[Jacob Jorvang]

Thanks again, that worked perfectly

(I set the values to 1)