not working

[peter]

the program quit automatically after i finished inputting the name and chose the charater face. what should i do?

[wjp]

> what should i do?

You should provide us with some more details


Seriously, though, could you post your stdout.txt and stderr.txt? (assuming you're using windows)

[peter]

yes, i am using windows 98


stderr

Fatal signal: Segmentation Fault (SDL Parachute Deployed)


stdout

Exult version 0.98rc1
Built at: Mar 14 2002 01:09:14
Compile-time options: DEBUG, USE_EXULTSTUDIO, HAVE_ZIP_SUPPORT
Compiler: gcc, version: 2.95.3-6 (mingw special)

Platform: Windows 98 Version 4.10 Build 1998
Data path = data
Audio system assembled. Audio buffer at 22048
5 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 [A800]
4: SoundFont MIDI Router
Using device -1: MIDI Mapper
Internal Win32 Midiout Midi Player for Exult and Pentagram.
Created PCB 0
Created PCB 1
Created PCB 2
Created PCB 3
Created PCB 4
Created PCB 5
Audio initialisation OK
is_installed: c:\ultima vii - the black gate & serpent isle\ultima7/static/endgame.dat
is_installed: c:\ultima vii - the black gate & serpent isle\serpent/static/sispeech.spc
Audio subsystem request: Custom Music track
setting game directories to: c:\ultima vii - the black gate & serpent isle\ultima7
Starting a BLACK GATE game
Okay. It looks like an IFF file chunk
length looks like: 1807418
Audio subsystem request: Music track # 3
is_installed: c:\ultima vii - the black gate & serpent isle\serpent/static/sispeech.spc
is_installed: c:\ultima vii - the black gate & serpent isle\serpent/static/sispeech.spc
Skin is: 0 Sex is: 1
Creating 'gamedat' files.

[wjp]

Please upgrade to the latest binary snapshot. This is a known bug in Exult 0.98RC1. (Latest snapshots are on our download page)

[peter]

still not working.. the game won't even start now
dame error...

[Dominus]

make sure that the paths in exult.cfg are correct.

Edited: removed the stuff about the paths as I think Colourless might want to contact you to try run a special debug build so we find out what'S wrong...

[Colourless]

Ok, firstly can you post your new stdout.txt and stderr.txt files. Then I'll make a special build that you'll need to try so I can find out exactly where and what the problem is.

-Colourless Dragon

[corbomite]

I'm having the very same problem. With the current snapshot, the program shuts down as soon as I try to load either BG or SI. With the official build, I can get to the character creation screen, but as soon as I try to move past it, the program shuts down. I'm using Windows 98.

Just for your edification, here is my info as well.

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

stdout:

Exult version 0.99cvs
Built at: Jun 1 2002 19:10:07
Compile-time options: DEBUG, USE_EXULTSTUDIO, HAVE_ZIP_SUPPORT
Compiler: gcc, version: 2.95.3-6 (mingw special)

Platform: Windows 98 SE Version 4.10 Build 2222
Data path = data
Audio system assembled. Audio buffer at 22048
2 Midi Devices Detected
Listing midi devices:
-1: MIDI Mapper
0: ESFM Synthesis (1060)
1: Roland MPU-401
Using device -1: MIDI Mapper
Internal Win32 Midiout Midi Player for Exult and Pentagram.
Created PCB 0
Created PCB 1
Created PCB 2
Created PCB 3
Created PCB 4
Created PCB 5
Audio initialisation OK
is_installed: 'c:\ultima vii - the black gate & serpent isle\ultima7\static\endgame.dat': yes
is_installed: 'c:\ultima vii - the black gate & serpent isle\serpent\static\sispeech.spc' : yes
Audio subsystem request: Custom Music track

[nadir]

For some weird reason spaces in paths fail to work correctly with some versions of Windows. Rename that long folder name to "u7"

[OgreBattle]

Could it be the ampersand (&) in the path name????

[Colourless]

I've managed to reproduce the problem here, and it doesn't seem to make much sense. It looks like it's a compiler/lib bug. I am currently working on this.

-Colourless Dragon

[corbomite]

I changed the name of the directory to U7, as you suggested and it works fine now. Simpler is apparently sometimes better.

[Colourless]

Well, can you change it back to "ultima vii - the black gate & serpent isle" and then download and try this special version of Exult for me: http://www.users.on.net/triforce/exult_test.zip (731kb)

Also, I want you to delete (or rename) your gamedat dirs and try starting new games.

Note (which i'm sure you already know) exult.cfg will also need to be updated too.

-Colourless Dragon

[wjp]

Ok, I could reproduce the problem too on my parents' win98 machine, if I used "\ultima vii - the black gate & serpent isle\ultima7" as the path.

Using your test build everything worked ok, including starting new games.