serpent gates don't work

[sully]

I had this problem b4 with the gates. I decided to delete u7 from my hard drive and reinstall it, got the newest version of exult; which works a lot better than the old one I had, but I played through SI got the jawbone put the 4 teeth in it click on the gate, screen goes black , comes back still standing in the same spot...... Does anyone else have this problem, what should I do????

[wjp]

Strange... this seems to happen more than occasionally.

Are you sure the teeth are properly inside the jawbone? (ie. if you press 'j' they all show up)

Do you have the jawbone in your own inventory or that of a party member?


I'll have to check the usecode function to see exactly what condition would cause the screen to go black but not teleport you.

[drcode]

A savegame would probably make this easier to find...

[sully]

I'll send the savegame to whoever wants it
thanx for the help

[Dominus]

hm, I assume I've got this savegame from you...
Well it works for me both with the official beta1 and the current snapshot. Something must be wrong on your end
Seriously though, there is a sound effect playing when you "enter" the serpent gate. Try disabling sfx and try. If it still crashes, try disabling ALL audio (all this do with the game menu).
If it works with sfx or audio off, please tell us your soundcard. And also try to get newer drivers for your card.

[sully]

I tried turning off sfx gates don't work, tried turning off all audio gates still don't work. When I am playing either bg or si I don't get any sfx at all, not sure what you're hearing, I do get music and in bg I get the guardians voice every now and then.

[Dominus]

Ok, we might have an idea now what is going wrong. I encountered problems with your savegame and wjp found out that you have only Serpent Isle running without the Silver Seed Add-On. This might be the cause of some problems here.
I don't know what the others of the team think but we might have to get a hold of Black Gate and Serpent Isle without Add-ons to make sure there are not some other bugs lingering in these.
So your bug report was really helpful although we couldn't help you yet.

[wjp]

This was indeed caused by not having the Silver Seed. It's fixed now. (Should be in the next snapshot)