Krenn

And did you work out which mod is putting the scalp in his hand?

afraid not, no.

fixed the problem.  one of the NPC's in that area was carrying a scalp in his hand, which was an invalid location. works fine now, thanks for everyone's help!

Ok, I enabled error logging, and this is error message i get when i recreate the problem:


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

ASSERTION FAILED!
File: ObjCreature.cpp
Line: 12381

Exp: creatureSize == 0

Msg: no msg.
Run Debugger?

Also, I realize now that I DO see the loading screen before the game crashes, but that the progress bar does not advance at all.

per this thread http://www.shsforums...p;hl=area crash

, i used Infinity Exp to check for AR870.ARE, AR8700.WED, AR8700.TIS, AR8700.MOS, AR8700LM.BMP, AR8700HT.BMP, & AR8700SR.BMP

I could not find   ar8700.wed, and ar8700.TIS cam back with 'unknown file extension'

the other files all look fine.

"Crash immediately after autosaving", do you mean with that, that the loading bar for the new area (bandit camp) is completely empty and you get a black screen followed by CTD?

10th

CTD is Crash To Desktop?

If I talk to the bandits, the game autosaves, then crashes to the destop before it shows the load bar at all.
If I click on the bandit camp on the map, the same thing happens.  game autosaves, then crashes to desktop before the load bar appears

If I use the cluaconsole, the autosave option doesn't appear at all, and the load bar goes to maybe 10% full, then crashes to desktop.

by "Crash to desktop" I mean that I'm suddenly looking at a black window on 2/3's of my screen, and my normal desktop background on the other 1/3.  (game runs in 800 by 600 full screen, and default desktop is 1024x768).  At that point, I have to ctl-alt-del and close end the game process.

Starting a new game doesn't help, running the bergost crash fixer doesn't help, reinstalling the BGT worldmap doesn't help. (When I reinstall BGT worldmap, I tell it to modify old save games)