Please could someone help a frustrated newbie please ?
I'm sure that there is a simple solution to the ..An assertion failed in CStore.cpp at line number 177...error message that i keep getting.I seem to have downloaded and installed all the relevant patches,although on the main menu page i still show v1.3.062915 (whatever that is).I have installed both IWD and HoW and have just completed chapter2 and have returned to Kuldahar (with 2 dead!!) but cannot use the temple or weapon and potion stores as i keep getting this error...i also didn't find Egenia after killing the big bad snake woman.I also get an error message when trying to enter the HoW shack.
I love this game and want to get on,i would rather not restart and humbly request some assistance from the pantheon of omnipotents that occupy this forum.

Thanks in anticipation, Cocobolomike

Wrong patch.

Uninstall and prepare to reinstall in one of the following orders,

1) The ultimate patch would be Trials of the Luremaster, an official expansion cum patch that is only available through download.

- Install IWD
- Install HoW
- Install TotL

http://www.fileplanet.com/62184/6000...the-Luremaster

2) If you do not want TotL, then you need the HoW patch v1.41

- Install IWD
- Install HoW
- Install HoW patch v1.41

http://www.fileplanet.com/58826/5000...f-Winter-Patch

Thanks for the speedy reply...i'm waiting in a queue to download TotL...i thought i had already installed the v1.41 patch.I guess this means that all the hard work i've put in so far has been totally wasted or could i at least save my characters..they are such a bunch of lovable rogues,scoudrels ,cads and bounders!!
ta, cocobolomike

You can save your characters and use them when you restart. Here's the process:

1) Export the characters
2) Copy the character files from the export file into another file
3) Re-install
4) Copy your character files back into the export file
5) When you create a new game, import your characters

Just remember that your containers (gem bags, potion boxes, etc) will NOT export. Also, IIRC plot or quest items will not export either. You will probably need to use the CreatItem cheat to recover any quest items.

Cant you just copy your saved games files instead of characters?? I'm sure that would work too.

Yeah, that should work, but archiving your characters isn't a bad thing to do either .... just in case. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Thanks to you all...i somehow managed to reinstall whilst keeping my characters and saves !! You are truly deities to be worshipped

Seriously, i really appreciate the help
cocobolomike

since nobody mentioned it, Welcome to Ironworks!

<font color = mediumspringgreen>Cocobolomike,

You killed the snake lady in Dragon's Eye Level 5 (DE5). IIRC, you find Priestess Egenia (sp?) two levels before that, in DE3.

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[ 07-11-2005, 02:40 PM: Message edited by: NobleNick ]

Yeah she was there before ...but had disappeared after killing miss snakey and on returning to the temple in Kuldahar i still got the 'i'm just filling in while rev Poquellin and Priestess Egenia are absent'line from the main character...surely my group would/should mention their meeting/s with the priestess ??I also thought that the captured villagers would have gone back to Kuldahar after i cleared all of Dragon's Eye.
Still, not to worry as i'm now getting scythed by big sharp skeletons in the severed hand..cool !
Thanks for the welcome to the forum,i hope that i can contribute something rather than just soak up all your combined knowledge.
Cheers,cocobolomike

After enough soaking, you can start squeezing out the info. :D

The Egenia quest was taken out - you can never make Egenia return to Kuldahar and get XP for it. The Egenia tale is continued in IWD 2. The captured villagers will eventually disappear. If you go back (although there really isn't a reason to) after finishing the Severed Hand, they will probably all be gone (but the population of Kuldahar doesn't increase noticeably).

Oh, and as Kyrvias pointed out, we were remiss:
Welcome to the IW Forum [img]graemlins/happywave.gif[/img]

<font color = lightgreen>I think there are downloads where someone put all the incomplete/removed quests from the game, including the Voice of Durdel Anatha. No, I don't have any links for those right now--I am posting while at work. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

If no one has done that, then I know what my next game-related project is going to be....</font>

Auril's Bane adds the VoDA quest back into the game. Although it didn't seem to be working for at least one person, but I never got a reply back about a non/confirmed fix from him :|

<font color = lightgreen>Ack! I'm so embarrassed! I forgot that many of the "unfinished" quests were finished in Auril's Bane.

I'm so bad. [img]tongue.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/petard.gif[/img] </font>

That's ok. [img]smile.gif[/img] There are still a couple of things that could be restored still IIRC. Something aobut Orrick being able to enchant the [unenchanted] bettle shield instead of Nym, and something about Mavalon's golems I think.

Deities...still having problems..i've got v1.42 installed(Iwd,HoW and Totl)but am crashing out when trying to enter a cavern to the north and east of Wyrms tooth/ice palace..i've blitzed all the salamanders and freed the slaves etc but haven't turned the heating on. Do i need to do something else or have i got another bug? I had hoped that v1.42 would be it!
Thanks,
Cocobolomike

Hmmm. That doesn't seem right. Where exactly is the error? To the northeast of Wyrm's Tooth is a tiny area with cave tunnels leading to other areas - is that the place, or are you getting the crash leaving the WT map itself?

If the error is in the small area, does it say "An assertion error occurred in 176_"? That has been a problem in the UK version because of a CD duplication error and Black Isle issued a UK-only patch.

I don't know how it will interact with your fully patched version (e.g. if it will mess things up if you put it in after v.1.42), but here's the link to the patch.

I would try just patching it in regularly to your game (don't forget to backup your saved games first). If that doesn't work, try a reinstall and do the following order: IWD>UK patch>HoW>TotL.

Note that the game does not "patch" the area you are in when you save. So if you saved in that little area, you will have to go to a previous save game or (this might work) exit the area back to Wyrm's Tooth and re-enter.

A game note - have you cleared the Frost Giant Caverns yet?

*Spoilers*

There's a ruined rope bridge in the southwest corner of the Wyrm's Tooth map. Soth, one of the slaves in the room under the Aquarium, has an engineering book that you can use to repair the bridge. If he has disappeared already, don't sweat it. Search on the ground in the left-hand side of the room, near the shelves. He leaves the book behind. Take the book to the bridge and voila...

The Frost Giant Caverns, one of my favourite areas!

Good luck with your game issues.

Thanks Aerich,
I have dealt with the frost giants..the problem is on the small map with 4 exits,west to the ice palace,north-west to the chamber under the ice palace,north-east to the world map locations and East to an unidentified cave..i don't get any error message though..the game saves there,the screen with the ice palace image comes up and the red bar gets about half way across and stops...or the game locks up.
I'll try the UK patch and let you know how i get on ..Thanks for the post...i'm loving the game..as is my son..we're busting to be able to use some of the high level spells and find more artifacts/weapons !!
Cheers,cocobolomike

The uk patch worked..thanks again Aerich

Excellent. Glad to help. Enjoy the tarnished sentries.