Exult Forum

In Serpent isle, the items names are not what they are supposed to be. Like a candle is labled invisibility dust when you click on it. The avatar's boots are labled "viking helm". Is this a bug with exult or is it from the original game? I played BG with exult and that never happened

Sounds like something got corrupted.

Yeah, thats a great help.

I'd like to know how to fix it, if it can be fixced

Maybe he doesn't know. Chill out. At least you've got an idea that it's just your copy and not everyones. Ask the right questions and do it nicely. You'll be suprised what people can tell you if you do.

To know what's wrong, the Exult team usually needs to know your system specs and Exult version. Telling those might help identify what's wrong and how to fix it.

...and if you compiled exult yourself, and if you maybe customized text.flx in any way, and which version of SI you're using (with or without SS, specifically).

With that information we may be able to make an educated guess.

We're not psychic.

is your text.flx the PROPER one, that is, the one from SI?

You can get the textpack utility on the download page (tools for windows). Use this tools to convert your text.flx to text.txt and you can then easily review the content of the file.

Additionally, you might have a setting in your exult.cfg. If the directory setup in exists and contains a text.flx it might corrupt the result too.

Also, please post the filesize (in bytes) of your text.flx. (It is a file in SI/static/).


Artaxerxes

Sorry,

I have Exult v. 1.0

And I run on win 98, and I am using SI without SS.

I don't think I modified any files, I just Installed the game and started playing. The sise of the text.flx file is 47 KB.

I can't find the textpack utility anywere on the site. Could you mabe post a link to it or something...?

Oh yeah, and there isin't any setting in my exult.cfg

My guess would be the "problem" is that you have a SI without SS.

All the item names for "special" items (the locations in item.flx to be exact) are hardcoded in SI as far as I can tell, and possibly the locations changed in SS.

Hard to fix without having a SI-without-SS myself, though

What would have to be done, is finding all names in text.flx for the SI-with-SS in text.flx for SI-without-SS.

This game is so ancient that frankly if you own a legit copy of SI without SS, you may as well just get a copy of SI with SS from someone else. I don't support piracy, but if you've got a legit copy of SI then really I don't see the big deal. Others may disagree though, as is their right.