HELP!

[Till]

HELP!
I have a very serious problem with Exult/ Ultima7. The program always quits immediately after finishing the the ultima 7 game menu, as soon as the screen turns red (and as far as I remember from ancient times the red face of this master-bloke appears). No further error message pops up. Nothing. It just quits. Leaving me back crying all day long since I did not manage to get it started even once.
Does anybody know what to do?

Till (desperate)


system:
- Pentium III 600,
- ATI RAGE mobilty m1-AGP,
- ESS Solo 1 PCI AudioDrive,
- Windows 2000

[Dominus]

what version of Exult and what version of Ultima7?
Please also post the first 30 lines of stdout.txt (found where exult.exe is)

[Till]

Dominus, thank you for helping...

The versions I use are:
- Exult version 1.1.10rc2
- Ultima 7-The Black Gate, ver. 2.2 (original software, six 3,5'' floppy discs)

I've also tried it with Exult 0.94alpha5 - with the same result. Do I need the Ultima7-Update-Patch? And if yes, how do I install it, because I've tried to execute the unzipped patch files, but it did't work.


The complete stdout.txt:

Exult version 1.1.10rc2
Built at: Mar 1 2004 02:23:05
Compile-time options: NO_SDL_PARACHUTE, HAVE_ZIP_SUPPORT
Compiler: Microsoft C/C++ Compiler, version: 13.0.9466

Platform: Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 Version 5.0 Build 2195
Exult path settings:
Data : data\.
Digital music : data\\music

3 Midi Devices Detected
Listing midi devices:
-1: Microsoft MIDI-Mapper
0: ESS Solo-FM-Synthesizer
1: ESS Solo-MPU-401
2: Microsoft GS Wavetable SW Synth
Using device -1: Microsoft MIDI-Mapper
Music player: Internal Win32 Midiout Midi Player for Exult and Pentagram.
Black Gate : found
exult_bg.flx : found
Serpent Isle : not found (.\static\sispeech.spc)
exult_si.flx : found
Starting a BLACK GATE game
Game path settings:
Static : c:\ultima7\static
Gamedat : c:\ultima7\gamedat
Savegame: c:\ultima7
Patch : c:\ultima7\patch

Serpent Isle : not found (.\static\sispeech.spc)
exult_si.flx : found
Creating 'gamedat' files.

[wjp]

Could you post the contents of stderr.txt too?

[Radu]

Maybe your original files are corrupted? If you own the game maybe you should try to get a 'backup' copy from someone else, so you'll know if it's a problem with your computer, or just corrupted datafiles.

[Gradilla Dragon]

I don't think his problem is with corrupted files. He says he installed from floppies. I never had BG in floppies, but I have SI, and it has file verification during install, so I assume BG does too. Anyways, he wouldn't have been able to install the game if the floppies were damaged.