The infamous 'objects disappearing bug'

[Dominus]

Yes, you *have* to download the unstable snapshot. And then just play the game and pay attention to missing stuff. Stripped down cities or LB's castle without drawbridge are bad signs

Thanks

[Jaesun]

Can I assume play vanilla U7 with no Keyring mod to test?

[Dominus]

Ideally, so we can rule out any problems caused by the keyring mod (even though there shouldn't be).
I'd rather play with the keyring mod myself

[Jaesun]

Allrighty then/

I NEVER once got this bug (that I noticed anyway). Nothing PLOT specific ever disappeared. Anything specific we should possibly do to cause the likelihood of this happening/see it is fixed? Hoard tons of items and store them in containers etc..?

[Dominus]

No idea
We never could trace it
Probably playing for long stretches without restarting Exult.

[monotremata]

I never once ran into this bug but what the heck, looks like its time to play U7 again..

I assume if I build the latest svn on Ubuntu Ill have all the fixes in place right??

[Dominus]

yes, but check the other recent thread by Dr.Code, it seems that Unity doesn't like programs that use ALT...

[monotremata]

Haha first thing I did was get rid of Unity and set my X-session for Kubuntu and Gnome.
My poor Mac OS partition is feeling left out, I think its been over a month since I booted to it.

[skuttduck]

I wonder if my latest game is a result of this bug, or just Serpent Isle?

I seem to recall having problems with Serpent Isle in the days of me just playing the game normally on my 386 DX 40 in Dos.

Anyhow, in monitor, the pikeman that you talk to to train on the list field is gone. I do not know what happened to him. Ok, so I decided to just pickpocket luther for Dupre's shield. Next I decided to go to moonshade, and now the game freezes because Kane is not there. They just seem to wait on the ship endlessly.

Some of the original problems I had when playing this game years back was in Fawn, Kalen never attacked me so I couldn't advance there.

[Malignant Manor]

The pike man disappearing is a bug in the original.

[Mr. Swiveller]

Hi guys -

Am I right in thinking that this bug has been fixed in the latest snapshots? I've read the thread, but am not sure if the comments made by Dr. Code imply that the 'disappearing objects' problem has been fully resolved.

[Dominus]

We assume it has been fixed. With the not sure way to trigger it we don't know for sure. We haven't had any negative report though
And Marzo fixed a couple of other potential crashes. So happy playing

[Mr. Swiveller]

Thanks Dominus!

[An]

Maybe we could have release some time soon, that latest Exult make it into repositories of some distros?

[Malignant Manor]

There's still some bugs that we want to fix and recent changes need play tested to make sure that we didn't break anything.

[Hornpipe]

Anyway. You are doing a great job.

Thanks.

Edit by Diminus: froze thread, too much spam ;(