Assertion problems, please help

[Sodomatic Goat]

ok, when I start up baldurs Gate it has an Assertion right when I click play so I'm not even in the game, it says:

Assertion
An Assertion failed in D:\Dev\Baldur\InfGame.cpp at line number 2316

the funny thing is my D drive is an empty harddrive and my cd drive is E drive, it doesn't even try to read from the right drive and it doesn't seem like it tries to read from the D drive either... the first thing I tried was re-installing the game but that didn't do anything... I am thinking, can this be because I am running under Windows ME? I have played the game several times with no errors under Windows 98 and it seems like Win ME is giving me problems with anything else too... well please help me, I love BG


EDIT: Watch your language please mate, particularly in your title. Cheers. [img]smile.gif[/img]
--- Memnoch

[ 07-20-2004, 10:01 AM: Message edited by: Memnoch ]

[bjorn]

This might not be any help at all but when i used Windows ME it always crashed and bugged my aplications. If you can i would recommend you to upgrade to XP.

[Hivetyrant]

First of all, I dont think that the title of this thread is quite appropriate, swearing is frowned upon here.

Anyway, I have a question, did you un-install the game originally, or did you just delete the folder that it was in, because it could be just a few reqistry keys hanging around on your computer, so the program may be looking for files where they used to be.

[mad=dog]

Sorry to hear of your problems. Try to open the baldur.ini file, which is in the main directory of the game. It contains a heading called [Alias] where all paths are set.
It should look something like this:
[Alias]
HD0:=C:\games\bgate\
CD1:=E:\CD1\
CD2:=E:\CD2\
CD3:=E:\CD3\
CD4:=E:\CD4\
CD5:=E:\CD5\
CD6:=E:\CD6\

Where HD0 is the game path (might very well be different in your case) and E is the cd drive.
If everything is in order in this file I sadly think I cannot help.

[Firestormalpha]

Based on what I've read in the bioware help section, most assertion failures are due to file corruption. You may want to attempt a reinstall.

[Sodomatic Goat]

Yeah thanks, but I solved the problem, I deleted my temp folder and then I could start the game again, but it crashed when I tried to open my save game, I found out it was because the same game was read only, I had transportet it from my computer to my parents and back using a cdrw which made the files read only :S well I deleted the temp files again and unclicked the read only thingy in the files and it worked out... so I am happy again... sorry for swearing too btw, just got a bit upset over this...

[Pug Boy]

I've got a similar assertion error - D:\Dev\Baldur\CPathSearch.cpp at line number 724.
I'm in the catacombs under Candlekeep.

I have the 5 CD BG & single CD ToTSC expansion. I've downloaded the ToTSC & DX8 patches with no improvement. I've heard that deleting the cache can help. If so,where do I find the cache to delete it (I'm not very tech savvy). Also, if I uninstall & reinstall will I lose my saved games?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Armen]

i'm no expert but i had the odd assertion error

someone who knows told me that graphics is the main problem - sometimes you can get round it / over it by just trying (in the game) to do something differently

reinstalling fixed it for me eventuall when i took the option to install the version of DirectX that came on the game disks (i play no other computer games so i don't know if this might mess anything else up)

uninstalling/reinstalling shouldn't affect your save files but you can always make a copy of them just in case and then copy them back to the 'Save' folder if you get a problem

good luck

[Iron Greasel]

If all else fails, you could try changing the CD drive's letter. Information about it can be found from Microsoft Knowledge Base. I have no idea if that works (I have XP) or if it, if working, helps for the actual problem. You could still try it, though.

[Pug Boy]

I'll have a go at reinstalling it & see if that helps.