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[JamesofN]

Ok, I made an account. Sorry for the double post with my guest form.
I've got a Hex editor and I'm trying to apply this fix, but I can't figure it out (I have no knowledge of Hex at all, really). I've opened Torment.exe, searched and found the strings you listed, but I'm a bit confused as to what I'm editing and what I should be editing it to.
The resolution I'm using is 1920x1080, and I've gone and found out what those are in Hex (0x780 and 0x438 respectively) but I'm a little stuck from there. No idea how to get from those to the XX XX XX etc. format.

Would I be correct in doing this:

1920x1080 - Replace 80 02 with 80 07 and replace E0 01 with 38 04

??

EDIT:
Looks like I was, no longer crashing when leaving Mebbeth's Hut.
Thanks for the fix!

Edited by JamesofN, 14 February 2012 - 08:34 AM.

[i30817]

Great job scient - never used the widescreen mod just because i suspected there was a unavoidable problem like this, now there is no reason not to.

Edited by i30817, 14 February 2012 - 06:40 PM.

[scient]

Ok, I made an account. Sorry for the double post with my guest form.
I've got a Hex editor and I'm trying to apply this fix, but I can't figure it out (I have no knowledge of Hex at all, really). I've opened Torment.exe, searched and found the strings you listed, but I'm a bit confused as to what I'm editing and what I should be editing it to.
The resolution I'm using is 1920x1080, and I've gone and found out what those are in Hex (0x780 and 0x438 respectively) but I'm a little stuck from there. No idea how to get from those to the XX XX XX etc. format.

Would I be correct in doing this:

1920x1080 - Replace 80 02 with 80 07 and replace E0 01 with 38 04

??

EDIT:
Looks like I was, no longer crashing when leaving Mebbeth's Hut.
Thanks for the fix!

That is correct. And glad it's fixed for you! It looks like crash with Mebbeth hut and Gallery are sorted.

Great job scient - never used the widescreen mod just because i suspected there was a unavoidable problem like this, now there is no reason not to.

Yah, there is still one problem I've seen linked to WS or UI mod where certain objects don't render. Like the dabus on ground below. But the general game breaking crashes should be sorted. I'm going to browse through and see if I can find any hardcoded references like ones causing crashes to see if might be anything else. One nice thing for WS mod would be to find offsets to center rendering small areas, so they're not off in top left.

[i30817]

Might the Dabus be using percentile coordinates instead of logical coordinates? Bad bug to solve, that.

Edited by i30817, 16 February 2012 - 03:01 AM.

[William Imm]

The dialogue with Sarossa in the foundry is still buggy. In some games the option, which leads to the wisdom increase, just won't show up.

I'll investage. While this isn't the proper forum for posting an issue like this, and I'm not Qwinn or scient, I can still help you with fixing the issue. What version of the game do you have, and what mods do you have?

[scient]

Just one more confirmation: Those hexadecimal changes have cleared up the crashes I was having in the art gallery and Mebbeth's hut.

Nicely done!

@zugschef / William Imm : yah anything you could find out would be useful. Qwinn said he was going to work on the game sometime this month so any more information you can give would prob be useful. The dialog stuff isn't my area of expertise so I'll leave Qwinn to handle any further details.

[moetaki]

I'm so happy I found this thread, I have been having these exact same crashes. I'm running what I think is the 4 CD version (I downloaded the D&D Anthology from GamersGate, but I have seen "please insert disc 3" during some loading screens) on Win 7 64bit at 2560x1440 resolution, which is the native resolution on my monitor. As far as mods go, I have Bigg's Widescreen mod, Ghostdog's UI, and the WeiDu fixpack installed. I started a new game after installing all the mods.

The first time I went to Mebbeth's house, the game let me leave without crashing. I returned later to get mage training and I absolutely could not leave without the game crashing; I had to reload an earlier save to continue playing. The same happened to me later trying to leave the Aoskar temple. Now I am in the Art and Curio Gallery and the game is crashing whenever I enter the red area in the image from panaceator's earlier post: http://www.shsforums...post__p__503758.

Can anyone please help me apply the hex patch scient outlined in this post http://www.shsforums...post__p__534474 for my resolution? I would greatly appreciate it, I'm absolutely loving this game and it's torture to not be able to play any further. Thanks guys!

PS: I have to use Windows Compatibility Administrator to prevent the game from crashing whenever spells are cast. I run in XP SP2 compatibility mode and force directdraw emulation.

[scient]

I'm so happy I found this thread, I have been having these exact same crashes. I'm running what I think is the 4 CD version (I downloaded the D&D Anthology from GamersGate, but I have seen "please insert disc 3" during some loading screens) on Win 7 64bit at 2560x1440 resolution, which is the native resolution on my monitor. As far as mods go, I have Bigg's Widescreen mod, Ghostdog's UI, and the WeiDu fixpack installed. I started a new game after installing all the mods.

The first time I went to Mebbeth's house, the game let me leave without crashing. I returned later to get mage training and I absolutely could not leave without the game crashing; I had to reload an earlier save to continue playing. The same happened to me later trying to leave the Aoskar temple. Now I am in the Art and Curio Gallery and the game is crashing whenever I enter the red area in the image from panaceator's earlier post: http://www.shsforums...post__p__503758.

Can anyone please help me apply the hex patch scient outlined in this post http://www.shsforums...post__p__534474 for my resolution? I would greatly appreciate it, I'm absolutely loving this game and it's torture to not be able to play any further. Thanks guys!

Upload your exe to mediafire or hotfile and I'll patch it. So your game res is 2560x1440?

PS: I have to use Windows Compatibility Administrator to prevent the game from crashing whenever spells are cast. I run in XP SP2 compatibility mode and force directdraw emulation.

The DDraw fix by aqrit solves this.

http://www.shsforums...ownsstuttering/

Edited by scient, 07 March 2012 - 09:12 AM.

[moetaki]

Thank you so much scient, I sent you the link in a message. Yes, 2560x1440 is the correct game resolution I'm running. Does the DDraw fix break saves or can I continue with my current save game if I install it?

[scient]

DDraw shouldn't break saves. And I sent you PM with patched exe.

[moetaki]

The patched exe works perfectly. I tried both the Art Gallery and Aoskar's temple and both are completely crash-free. You are the man scient, thank you!!!

[William Imm]

Hello. Yesterday I've bought gog version of Planescape. It worked fine, but when I tried patching it with all those mods, it works ... weird. Before patching the game ran instantly. Now I have to wait up to several minutes before I get past black screen. After that everything - seems - to work properly. Only similar thing occurs whenever I try to alt+tab or exit the game (on exit it just stops responding). First I tried installing just the 3 most recommended mods, then I reinstalled the game and tried just the widescreen and ghostdogs pst ui ones (I didn't use them before reinstalling). Now the exact same thing happens.

I'm running on Windows 7 Pro x64.
Video: Nvidia GeForce 9600 GT.

As for how I patched: installed gog's Planescape, downloaded mods, extracted to game directory, ran mod installers, did what was asked on screen.

If you haven't done so arleady, please install aqurit's DDraw fix. Nvidia cards in particular seem to be rather problematic with Infinity Engine games.