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[Archmage Silver]

Fixed issue.

Edited by Archmage Silver, 02 December 2010 - 03:26 PM.

[Shtanto]

Greetings!

I would like to address the 'cranium rat bug'. This bug typically occurs under the following conditions:
- Player has a clean install of Planescape: Torment with or without mods and/or patches
- * In my case, I have a full install as per instructions here and here
- Player has an up-to-date system (as of 2008) with an Nvidia 8 series graphics card
- Player has entered the weeping stone catacombs
- Player encounters a cranium rat
- - The rat is invisible. Only a red ring indicates its position. No apparent texture files appears.
> The crash occurs in a few different ways
> - Player attacks the cranium rat
> - Cranium rat casts a spell (usually ball lightning)
> - - Spell may or may not cast successfully
> - Game freezes for a moment before crash dialog is displayed.
> - The following error message sometimes occurs

An Assertion failed In F:\Torment\source\chitin\ChVidPal.cpp at line number 1124

This one is fairly specific. It's only 1 creature in 1 place that's causing the problem. Emptying the cache and temp folders didn't work unfortunatley. As regards an gameplay solution, I suppose I could try training as a thief

My WeiDU log is here

// Log of Currently Installed WeiDU Mods
// The top of the file is the 'oldest' mod
// ~TP2_File~ #language_number #component_number // [Subcomponent Name -> ] Component Name [ : Version]
~WIDESCREEN/WIDESCREEN.TP2~ #0 #0 // Widescreen Mod: Widescreen Mod v2.2
~SETUP-GHOSTDOG'S-PST-UI.TP2~ #0 #1 // GhostDog's Planescape: Torment UI -> PST UI with 30% bigger fonts (Only for the English Version): v1.21
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #1 // Banter Accelerator?  If so, Choose interval between banters. -> Interparty Banter Every 6 game hours (30 minutes) <Recommended>: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #5 // Maximized HP Per Level for TNO and Party: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #6 // Maximized Friends Spell: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #7 // Stackable Rings, Charms, Bracelets, Scrolls: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #8 // Scale of Souls: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #10 // Save Nordom! Tweak: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #12 // Power Action Leprechaun Annah, by Black Isle: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #13 // Easter Egg Morte, by Black Isle: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #14 // Explore City Areas: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #18 // No Battle Music: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-UB.TP2~ #0 #0 // All Recommended PS:T Unfinished Business Components: v3.01
~SETUP-PST-UB.TP2~ #0 #50 // Expanded Deionarra's Truth Mod: v3.01
~SETUP-PST-FIX.TP2~ #0 #0 // PS:T Ultimate WeiDU Fixpack, by Qwinn: v3.02
~SETUP-PST-FIX.TP2~ #0 #1 // Dialogue Spelling/Grammar Corrections (English Only): v3.02
~NVIDIA_FIX/NVIDIA_FIX.TP2~ #0 #0 // Fix NVidia graphical glitches

Thanks for all who read this. If the mods deem this post worthy of it's own topic, we'll have this bug fixed for good

[Jarno Mikkola]

- Player encounters a cranium rat
- - The rat is invisible. Only a red ring indicates its position. No apparent texture files appears.

That would say that you might have a corrupted creature animation, and would you change it with an IE editor, you might just fix the problem.

~WIDESCREEN/WIDESCREEN.TP2~ #0 #0 // Widescreen Mod: Widescreen Mod v2.2
~SETUP-GHOSTDOG'S-PST-UI.TP2~ #0 #1 // GhostDog's Planescape: Torment UI -> PST UI with 30% bigger fonts (Only for the English Version): v1.21
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #1 // Banter Accelerator? If so, Choose interval between banters. -> Interparty Banter Every 6 game hours (30 minutes) <Recommended>: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #5 // Maximized HP Per Level for TNO and Party: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #6 // Maximized Friends Spell: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #7 // Stackable Rings, Charms, Bracelets, Scrolls: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #8 // Scale of Souls: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #10 // Save Nordom! Tweak: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #12 // Power Action Leprechaun Annah, by Black Isle: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #13 // Easter Egg Morte, by Black Isle: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #14 // Explore City Areas: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #18 // No Battle Music: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-UB.TP2~ #0 #0 // All Recommended PS:T Unfinished Business Components: v3.01
~SETUP-PST-UB.TP2~ #0 #50 // Expanded Deionarra's Truth Mod: v3.01
~SETUP-PST-FIX.TP2~ #0 #0 // PS:T Ultimate WeiDU Fixpack, by Qwinn: v3.02
~SETUP-PST-FIX.TP2~ #0 #1 // Dialogue Spelling/Grammar Corrections (English Only): v3.02
~NVIDIA_FIX/NVIDIA_FIX.TP2~ #0 #0 // Fix NVidia graphical glitches

Wouldn't this order be better?

~SETUP-PST-FIX.TP2~ #0 #0 // PS:T Ultimate WeiDU Fixpack, by Qwinn: v3.02
~SETUP-PST-FIX.TP2~ #0 #1 // Dialogue Spelling/Grammar Corrections (English Only): v3.02
~SETUP-PST-UB.TP2~ #0 #0 // All Recommended PS:T Unfinished Business Components: v3.01
~SETUP-PST-UB.TP2~ #0 #50 // Expanded Deionarra's Truth Mod: v3.01
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #1 // Banter Accelerator? If so, Choose interval between banters. -> Interparty Banter Every 6 game hours (30 minutes) <Recommended>: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #5 // Maximized HP Per Level for TNO and Party: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #6 // Maximized Friends Spell: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #7 // Stackable Rings, Charms, Bracelets, Scrolls: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #8 // Scale of Souls: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #10 // Save Nordom! Tweak: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #12 // Power Action Leprechaun Annah, by Black Isle: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #13 // Easter Egg Morte, by Black Isle: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #14 // Explore City Areas: v3.51
~SETUP-PST-TWEAK.TP2~ #0 #18 // No Battle Music: v3.51
~WIDESCREEN/WIDESCREEN.TP2~ #0 #0 // Widescreen Mod: Widescreen Mod v2.2
~SETUP-GHOSTDOG'S-PST-UI.TP2~ #0 #1 // GhostDog's Planescape: Torment UI -> PST UI with 30% bigger fonts (Only for the English Version): v1.21
~NVIDIA_FIX/NVIDIA_FIX.TP2~ #0 #0 // Fix NVidia graphical glitches

At least according to this... and my own knowledge to install the Widescreen mod quite near the end.

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 19 November 2009 - 03:47 PM.

[Shtanto]

That would say that you might have a corrupted creature animation, and would you change it with an IE editor, you might just fix the problem.

You're probably right. How do I fix this? I have the IE editor, and the bug typically occurs in area number 1400. Thanks for the linky! I think I'll have to start over now that I know about all the mods.

[Jarno Mikkola]

That would say that you might have a corrupted creature animation, and would you change it with an IE editor, you might just fix the problem.

You're probably right. How do I fix this? I have the IE editor, and the bug typically occurs in area number 1400.

It's more probable that it's actually in ar1404(you can get the exact area number by pushing X in the game screen)

If the area is indeed ar1404, then the only three Cranium Rat's in the area are RAT.CRE, so if you open that creature with NearInfinity, you can change it's 'Animation ID' from 'Cranuim Rat - 57352' to something else.

[Shtanto]

That would say that you might have a corrupted creature animation, and would you change it with an IE editor, you might just fix the problem.

You're probably right. How do I fix this? I have the IE editor, and the bug typically occurs in area number 1400.

It's more probable that it's actually in ar1404(you can get the exact area number by pushing X in the game screen)

If the area is indeed ar1404, then the only three Cranium Rat's in the area are RAT.CRE, so if you open that creature with NearInfinity, you can change it's 'Animation ID' from 'Cranuim Rat - 57352' to something else.

Anything specific? I think you could write a short guide and solve this problem for good Well done tracking down the area number

If we presume Player has Infinity Explorer shortcutted on the desktop (or at least knows how to get it open), what would the required steps be?

[Jarno Mikkola]

If we presume Player has Infinity Explorer shortcutted on the desktop (or at least knows how to get it open), what would the required steps be?

Well, if you actually would get an IE(Infinity Engine) editor, not just a browser tool, you might have more success.

So you just download the .jar file from this post, and then load the game with: Game -> Open Game... -> Go find the Torment folder, and open the CHITIN.KEY file, and when it has loaded, open the CRE file folder, push S, and on top you'll find RAT.CRE, double click it, push View->Edit, and you'll see the 'Animation ID' as 'Cranuim Rat - 57352', change it to something else, push Update Value, the push Save, and then you can quit the Near Infinity.

You can try these too.
 CraniumratBAMs.zip   128.88K   263 downloads

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 05 February 2011 - 04:53 AM.

[Shtanto]

If we presume Player has Infinity Explorer shortcutted on the desktop (or at least knows how to get it open), what would the required steps be?

Well, if you actually would get an IE(Infinity Engine) editor, not just a browser tool, you might have more success.

Push View->Edit, and you'll see the 'Animation ID' as 'Cranuim Rat - 57352', change it to something else, push Update Value, the push Save, and then you can quit the Near Infinity.

Coolios! You say change it to something else. Could I change it to say pudding or does it have to be a random number of my choosing?

[Jarno Mikkola]

Coolios! You say change it to something else. Could I change it to say pudding or does it have to be a random number of my choosing?

Well, as long as it's not 'Cranuim Rat - 57352' and a one the game has an animation assigned to, it shouldn't matter... IT'S YOUR CHOICE .

Edit: Now it was later reported that some of the game versions have the animation .bam's corrupted and that's why there's only the red circle and no kind of animations on top of it... meaning that if you just replace the .bam's with any another animation, the game won't crash and the creature is displayed.

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 05 February 2011 - 03:25 AM.

[all for dnd]

why nobody seems to care about ati users...

[Jarno Mikkola]

why nobody seems to care about ati users...

Cause the current regimen work perfectly with ATI cards, or at least it works with my ATI Radeon Sapphire HD 4890 -card; and in case you are wondering, I switched from a NVidia 8500 card to this, and didn't need to reconfigure the game, so.
Well, yes the Fog of War flickers in IWDII with high graphs, but that's unavoidable I think.

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 24 October 2009 - 02:08 AM.

[Jarno Mikkola]

I've applied the nvidia patch here and this worked for me to resolve the black box issue but the above issue persists.
Does this widescreen mod I'm reading about address this?

You need to use... Graphics -> enable all save Sprite Mirroring.

[althearim]

I got "Icewind Dale II has stopped working" error on Win7 x64. When I set compatibility to XP SP3 and run as administrator I was able to run the game but I had the infamous black boxes problem. So I googled it and found this thread. I applied the nvidia fix on the first post but after that I get the error. Now I can't change any gfx options or anything because the game does not run despite whatever comp. setting I choose.

Hi! I am also having the exact same prob. Spent all day searching at google for for possible remedies yet until now I still had not fixed it...

Regards,
althearim
Prêt travaux

[misfit815]

Adding my situation to the list...

System: Dell Precision Mobile WorkStation M4400
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP3
Adapter: NVIDIA Quadro FX 770M
Driver Version: 6.14.11.7950

Symptoms: I was seeing some of the black-boxing of fog of war, and some poor performance. Increased the Frame Rate to 40 and performance recovered. At one point, though (right after the otyugh in the first level of Irenicus' dungeon), I kept getting a cpp error (no, I don't remember which one). At that point, I suspected that my installation was corrupt, so I uninstalled it and then deleted the folder under Program Files. I reinstalled SoA and ToB and reapplied the ToB patch.

Now, once past the initial menu (once it kicks into bgmain.exe, I *think*) the screen goes black. Only Suspend or Power Off recovers.

I've tried several variations of 3D settings in BGConfig, but haven't hit on something that works yet. Of course, given that I have to Suspend or Power Off the system after every attempt, I've not been scientifically trying every possible combination. I don't exactly have the time.

Anyway, now that I've found this forum, I'm going to be making a few more tries (including turning off some settings in the NVIDIA control panel for baldur.exe and bgmain.exe). In the meantime, though, does anyone else have any experience with this particular NVIDIA card?

J

[but-k]

So I thought I had done a pretty good job of following the directions in the tutorials and everything but when I try to load up the games with a boot disc it goes right back to the DC menu screen.  There are files on the disc because I can go to the CD player and see about 40 tracks there.  Anyone have any idea what could have gone wrong?