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[overthefalls]

Hi there,

I've installed the Big World Project as best as I can, however, I'm running into a major issue. Starting from Baldur's Gate from the beginning, I'm unable to zone into Peldvale. I get a crash to desktop with the following error:

[Mon 24 Oct 2011 20:44:49] ASSERTION FAILED! Return Address: 0x98F677 File: ChDimm.cpp Line: 1246 Expression: FALSE Message: ChDimm.cpp CDimm::Demand(): CRes pointer invalid (Check Baldur.log for missing resource)

Baldur.err has:
ASSERTION FAILED!
File: ChDimm.cpp
Line: 1246

Exp: FALSE

Msg: ChDimm.cpp CDimm::Demand(): CRes pointer invalid (Check Baldur.log for missing resource)
Run Debugger?

When zoning in from either Larsvale or the Friendly Inn, it does the loading screen and checks for a random encounter (always wild dogs and a ghast). If it doesn't do the random encounter, it crashes soon after.

I've uninstalled everything and reinstalled (and redownloaded) BWP, however, I'm still encountering the same issue. I've also tried zoning in with three characters now, one brand new and running directly there.

I unfortunately don't know the scripting well enough to figure out why exactly it happens. Does anyone have any ideas what it could possibly be?

Thanks!

Edit: Oops! Fresh version of Windows 7, and the directory is C:\bg\Big World.

Attached Files

•  Weidu.log   94.22K   233 downloads
•  CHITIN.txt   1.54MB   370 downloads
•  Baldur.log   564bytes   215 downloads

Edited by overthefalls, 24 October 2011 - 08:15 PM.

[Turambar]

Could you please enable logging (instructions on how to do it will appear in my signature shortly), try entering the area again, and, when it crashes, post the resulting baldur.err file?

Does the game crash just after the area is loaded, or does it crash while loading? If that's the case, how much of the loading bar is visible when it crashes?

Edited by Turambar, 25 October 2011 - 07:22 AM.

[overthefalls]

Thanks for replying!

I'm not getting much, even with the Logging On=1 addition to baldur.ini -- just the same. I've attached the file.

As for when it crashes, it goes to Loading, and the bar doesn't even fill -- it crashes pretty much exactly after saving.

baldur.err:

Spoiler

---------------------Start Logging Session---------------------

ASSERTION FAILED!
File: ChDimm.cpp
Line: 1246

Exp: FALSE

Msg: ChDimm.cpp CDimm::Demand(): CRes pointer invalid (Check Baldur.log for missing resource)
Run Debugger?

Edited by overthefalls, 25 October 2011 - 03:56 PM.

[Lollorian]

Could you please try out the instructions in this post? The area you're looking for is AR8900.ARE btw

Get NearInfinity from here

[overthefalls]

Could you please try out the instructions in this post? The area you're looking for is AR8900.ARE btw

Get NearInfinity from here

Thanks for the reply! I've been trying this for the last hour or so. All of the creatures generate okay, and I'm not sure how deep I should go. I've gone through the AR8900 and the BGSpawn scripts for Peldvale, and everything spawns okay. I wonder if it has to do with Viconia -- I was getting Kit errors when going to Viconia.BCS. Clipping the issues out of KIT.IDS isn't helping, though.

I'm almost to the point of counting Peldvale as lost... which sucks since I was going to recruit Viconia for the Neutral/evil group. Looking for the script for Viconia's rescue so I can try it in another place or set the globals and moving on. Nothing else in there that I can think of, really.

[Lollorian]

It's not the scripts you need to look into Crashes are caused by "Actor" creatures within the area itself (the creatures that are present in the area from the start... not spawned by scripts )

[mr fantastic]

Òk I'm getting same error as Overthefalls, when I'm trying to get to Peldvale.
First cloud peaks, now this, it seems that it's a common problem...
I've checked 'actor' creatures and everything seems to be ok.
I think I will try to post this problem on some other sites, maybe someone knows what's happening.

Regards

[overthefalls]

Yeah -- it's not just Peldvale now. I have it at the Gibberling Mountains as well.

I've gone through all the actor spawns in both places, even removing all of them to see if that helps and it still crashes to desktop. No new text: exact same as above.

I'm going to do a reinstall this weekend again, it looks like, and cut down on the number of things installed I guess.

[Lollorian]

That's sad Kinda makes you hate the fact that the baldur.err says:

Msg: ChDimm.cpp CDimm::Demand(): CRes pointer invalid (Check Baldur.log for missing resource)

and baldur.log doesn't make any mention of anything

Maybe you can try what Miloch proposed to mr fantastic earlier?

[Confuzzled]

I'm having the same issue as overthefalls, I think. Everything runs great except when I try and enter Peldvale (no matter which direction, new or old character, console or map). The loading screen will come up for the area, but before it starts to fill the screen will go entirely black. At first I left it like this for ten minutes just to see if anything would happen. It didn't, and I closed the program via Task Manager (which reported BG wasn't responding).

[Confuzzled]

Ok, well it turns out I used the wrong Setup. I was using 9.1 instead of this one http://www.shsforums...ds&showfile=752

Will try restoring a back up and doing a new install to see if this fixes the problem