Can't talk to anyone

[Yogho]

Hey, I bought Ultima vii from gog, played it a little and then heard about exult. Downloaded the 1.5 snapshot, since it was the only one for windows and I have windows 8. The problem is that I can't talk to anyone but Iolo. At the beginning the mayor walks to me but then just stands there, and when I get control, double clicking only starts a conversation with Iolo. Double clicking on the mayor, the peasant, a guard or anyone else doesn't do anything.

So... any ideas?

[Dominus]

That's weird

[Dominus]

Thankfully, someone checked for me whether we have an issue with Windows 8 but all was working great for him. So, I have no idea what is wrong there.
Did you turn off the scripted first scene in the misc options? http://exult.info/docs.php#misc_gump

does double clicking the lamps work

[Yogho]

Turning off the scripted scenen doesn't help. Tried double clicking lamps, doors and books, they all work normally.

I installed everything to my old xp computer and it works fine, so I will play with that instead. Still a strange issue, if you want more info just ask. I also tried the part two, at the beginning I can talk talk with party members just fine, then the guy asking the questions initiates a conversation with me, but after that double clicking on people does nothing.

[Yogho]

I found the problem. When starting to play on my xp machine I changed some settings from setup and the problem hit again. Going through the settings I isolated the problem to the "charmed difficulty" setting. Setting it to hard causes the problem, with it set on normal everything works as it should.

[Dominus]

Something wrong on your end. Where are the two games installed on your PC?
Upgrade all drivers, especially graphics and mouse drivers to the latest from the manufacturer (not MS).

[Dominus]

O just now saw that you replied just abit before my reply. I'll look into the charmed thing...
Thanks for figuring it out. That should not happen

Edit: I found the regression in our code and filed a bug report for now...

[Dominus]

Malignant Manor, just now fixed that bug. Playing with charmed set to hard will work again. Thanks for reporting this!