Grim Fandango - Year 3 crash

[Hyeong-Min Kim]

I had a very similar problem in year 2. When Manny visited the place
where Charlie's briefcase was hidden, the screen went black and I was
kicked out to my desktop without any sign of errors. I loaded a
different saved game and everything worked fine. To illustrate, if you
loaded savedgame #10 and the game crashes later, load savedgame #9 and
play. My guess is that somehow the savedgame got corrupted. Hope this
helps.

Cory Hill wrote:

> Grim Fandango crashes fairly consistantly in Year 3 when I'm on the
> screen
> with the mean looking "hair curlers". I've tried it both with and
> without
> 3D acceleration turned on. About 50% of the time, I can make it
> through
> that screen without the game crashing. When it crashes, there's no
> error.
> The screen just goes black and then suddenly, I'm back at my desktop
> with
> no sign of Grim Fandango. Has anyone else found this problem?
>
> My system is a PII-400 with 128 megs of RAM an 8 meg Matrox Marvel
> G200-TV
> video card and a Sound Blaster AWE64, running Windows 98. Both video
> and
> sound cards are running their latest drivers.
>
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[Kevin Grey]

I had the same problem on that screen. In my case, when I turned off 3D
acceleration on that screen, the game no longer crashed.

Kevin Grey

Cory Hill wrote in message <364e66d6...@news.primenet.com>...

[Mandrake]

I had the same problem on the same screen. I just tried to run through it as
quickly as possible, as you never need to hang around in that scene.

Frank

Cory Hill wrote in message <364e66d6...@news.primenet.com>...
>
>Grim Fandango crashes fairly consistantly in Year 3 when I'm on the screen
>with the mean looking "hair curlers". I've tried it both with and without

[Brian H. Johnson]

I too have this problem... and I cannot figure out a way around it. I have
tried with and without 3D accelleration on two video cards and with and
without sound on two sound cards.

If anyone finds a solution I'd love to hear it.

Brian H. Johnson
bjoh...@nwlink.com

[Lummox]

I was crashing in the same spot, too. I reinstalled DirectX 6 and disabled
my virus scan. Not sure which fixed it, but I have no more probs.

Lummox

Brian H. Johnson wrote in message <364fc...@news.nwlink.com>...

[R.G. Morgan]

I've had the same problem, C450A, G200, SB16. The grinders are very bad on
year 3, with the game quitting to windows very often. My brother persevered
and got past that screen by reloading and reloading and reloading...
Tried with and without 3D acceleration, sound, music, etc. This isn't like
the other Lucasarts games I own :-/.

[Lummox]

Same prob. PII450, Voodoo2, SB64V. After I re-installed DirectX 6.0 from
the GF CD, everything went fine. No more crashes. Might want to disable
your antivirus if you have one.

Lummox

R.G. Morgan wrote in message <72ubgc$omo$1...@ucsnew1.ncl.ac.uk>...

[guy...@usa.net]

Just another warning. If you get a disk full error. DO NOT save your
game. You risk corrupting it but you won't notice until you reach the
crane in year 3.

On Wed, 18 Nov 1998 07:18:45 -0500, "Lummox" <lum...@mindspring.com>
wrote:

SIG files are for idiots. Hey, wait a second...

[Roberto Ullfig]

I have the same problem except that it hangs the entire computer; though
I think I can get back to the desktop now by pressing the eject button
on the CD and hitting Enter on the keyboard;) So installing the DirectX
6.0 drivers from the CD fixed it? That's odd.

--
Roberto Ullfig