Options error

[Aelia Jusa]

I've just reinstalled Wizardry 8 and also the patch from the official site, however I can't save or load or anything like that. When I click on the Game Options button the game just dumps me back to the desktop and I get an error message saying something about debug something-or-other. Moving around and opening chests and so on works fine. Any thoughts?

Thanks [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Scatter]

ehh, No! (sorry) Things i've heard:
Drivers, and Preference settings.
Reapply the patch.
Reinstall the game.

heh, i remember you from when i was otter... hopefully you'll get it running, and i can say, 'welcome back to W8'

[Aelia Jusa]

Hey thanks, Scatter! I remember you as Otter too [img]smile.gif[/img]

Hopefully I won't have to reinstall... I'm using XP if that's illuminating for anyone [img]smile.gif[/img]

Edit: I also just clicked on 'options' on the main menu (with load, start new game, credits etc), also got dumped out.

[ 01-23-2004, 12:09 AM: Message edited by: Aelia Jusa ]

[Loudhy]

I'm using XP, too. I have only strange programm terminations ( sometimes when the party changes a map ).

It seems too simple, but maybe the savegame directory is gone ?

[img]graemlins/monster5.gif[/img]


Edit: No, bad idea. The savegame directory does not affect Game Options. Sorry Aelia Jusa.

[ 01-23-2004, 12:55 AM: Message edited by: Loudhy ]

[dplax]

It doesn't have any errors for me with XP. So sorry but I can't help.

[Nightowl2]

I'd suggest doing a complete uninstall and then reinstalling the game. Then get into it and see if the Options work properly (do a new team from the start, not a save game, in case of corruption). If everything works, put in the patch. If you have that problem again, then you know the patch is bad and you'll have to re-download it.

If everything is fine after the patch, then there might have been a burp during the original install.

Nightowl2

[Aelia Jusa]

Okay I'll do that then. I can't use a save game anyway because I can't load from the main menu either

Yeah, I just mentioned XP because the last time I played it and it did work (last year) I was using 98 [img]smile.gif[/img]

If u can't get help here, just go to the official tech help forum, lots of stuff gets solved there.

[Aelia Jusa]

I deleted the whole directory including all my old saves and reinstalled - problem solved! Something was really screwy with the previous install, I didn't even get setup (resolution, graphics etc) options before it loaded the first time.

So thanks for everyone's advice! [img]smile.gif[/img]

[Scatter]

Welcome Back to W8!