Crashing entering Magic Shop area after update...

[Tumaini]

Thanks Xalantyr!
I tried setting "Vertex Buffer Object" to "Off" and I was able to get through to the other side of the passage towards Ojeveda!
Hope this gives a clue to what might be wrong with the client.
There are however black patches of strange textures on the ground.

[khoridor]

SOLUTION

This might be related to a known generic problem with ATI drivers I found elsewhere on the forums. Run pssetup.exe and under Advanced Options - Vertex Buffer Object select Off.

This fixed the problem for me.

That solution works for me. My system is Fedora 8 with an ATI card.

Before that, I had dozens of crashes, 1 or 2 each time I changed map, and finally I couldn't load bronzedoors at all. Now BD loads, inter-maps crashes are history, and apparently other crashes as well. Nice! Thanks.

[Gothi[c]]

On my ATI card, it's the other way around. With vertex buffer object OFF, i get more crashes than with vertex buffer ON - yet i still get them no matter what the vertex buffer object setting is. Just not that frequent. It's playable at least..

I'm not sure if the vertex buffer object setting will do anything more than not trigger the real cause in certain cases. As far as I understand it's a shader issue.

[Durwyn]

As far as I understand it's a shader issue.

Shader = Shadow making if im not wrong? 
you can try to disable Shadows ingame via Option>Graphics>Shadows
and if im wrong, slap me >.>

[Caarrie]

and if im wrong, slap me >.>

* Caarrie slaps Durwyn

the shaders are not used for shadows at all so far, shaders are used to colorize things like the broken hair shader or used in [i think] in many spell effects to make them pretty colors.

[Geiger]

Hi,

Downloaded installed and updated the Game today.

System: WinXP SP2 1MB, ATI Radeon 9600XT 256MB - Latest drver set.

Problem: Leaving the town, in any direction apparently, causes an Exception error.

Have tried psupdater with the CheckIntegrity command line, Vertex Buffer On & Off, Maps preloaded (which incidentally raises another issue about not being able to load a region) and maps stay in memory, nothing changes the outcome as of yet.

Am not sure if this falls into the same category as the original post but am loathe to start a new thread for something I hope has been dealt with elsewhere and I am simply not finding the correct thread to resolve this issue.

In anticipation,

Geiger

Edit: Reinstalling Catalyst Drivers - FYI - I generally disable Catalyst - Re-Enabled to test - With CCC / MOM running - Game crashes on load.. Gotta love Catalyst.

[Caarrie]

have a look at http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=32557.0

[Ravenguard]

I've got these problems, but I have no idea about my graphics card.  All this technobabble on the ATI thread makes my head hurt.  Just downloaded game after being off for a while, and I was rescued several times by Mektar when trying to go from Oja -> Hydlaa.  It seems I can stay in cities, just not leave them.

Macbook, OS 10.5.5, 2.4 GHz Intel, 2 GB RAM... does Intel GMA ring a bell for a graphics card?

Edit:
I've turned vertex shaders off and it's still the same.  I don't really understand the whole ATI thing, other than the 'turn VBO off.'

The card is Intel GMA X3100

[Caarrie]

Macbook, OS 10.5.5, 2.4 GHz Intel, 2 GB RAM... does Intel GMA ring a bell for a graphics card?

have you tried the above fix? intel gma is just part of the name not the whole name.

[tsharky87]

My client crashes when I enter the East Hydlaa area, but thankfully it seems to load correctly after I restart the client. I'm using an Intel 945 Express Chipset graphics card. This seems to be a very bad bug...