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Leisure Suit Larry seriesLSL2 Bomb Causes Game to Freeze(7 posts)(7 posts)
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Posted January 13, 2016
Playing LSL 2 and the game seems to get caught at the explosion screen bouncing up and down. Is this a known issue or am I supposed to do something to get past it? Thanks
Posted January 13, 2016
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PeterC2: Playing LSL 2 and the game seems to get caught at the explosion screen bouncing up and down. Is this a known issue or am I supposed to do something to get past it? Thanks
You are talking about the airport and the bomb, right?

It doesn't freeze for me, but I tried my non-GOG version of the game and the latest ScummVM. Someone else, who owns LSL2 from GOG, will try it later today for me.

Can you check if there is a file called 52.scr inside your game directory?
It would also be helpful, if you could check what's inside the file VERSION inside the game directory.
Post edited January 13, 2016 by m_kiewitz
Posted January 14, 2016
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PeterC2: Playing LSL 2 and the game seems to get caught at the explosion screen bouncing up and down. Is this a known issue or am I supposed to do something to get past it? Thanks
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m_kiewitz: You are talking about the airport and the bomb, right?

It doesn't freeze for me, but I tried my non-GOG version of the game and the latest ScummVM. Someone else, who owns LSL2 from GOG, will try it later today for me.

Can you check if there is a file called 52.scr inside your game directory?
It would also be helpful, if you could check what's inside the file VERSION inside the game directory.
My install of LSL2 does not have the file 5.scr or VERSION in either the main or SUMMVM directories.

And when the bomb explodes a the airport, it doesn't freeze; the screen with the big BOOM goes up and down indefinitely.
Posted January 14, 2016
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PeterC2: My install of LSL2 does not have the file 5.scr or VERSION in either the main or SUMMVM directories.

And when the bomb explodes a the airport, it doesn't freeze; the screen with the big BOOM goes up and down indefinitely.
Can you please upload your saved game somewhere?

Someone just tried to reproduce this issue by warping to the airport right from the start and the explosion worked properly.
Posted January 16, 2016
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PeterC2: My install of LSL2 does not have the file 5.scr or VERSION in either the main or SUMMVM directories.

And when the bomb explodes a the airport, it doesn't freeze; the screen with the big BOOM goes up and down indefinitely.
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m_kiewitz: Can you please upload your saved game somewhere?

Someone just tried to reproduce this issue by warping to the airport right from the start and the explosion worked properly.
I have been able to get past the problem, but still happens at times. I tried to find a good save game to reproduce this issue and all I can say is it happens sometimes. In the attached file (which reads JPG but just change the extension to RAR), I have 2 saves, Save #8 is outside the airport from which I can reproduce the error more often than not, and #10 is the game actually stuck in the "boom loop:. I hope this helps.
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Posted January 17, 2016
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PeterC2: I have been able to get past the problem, but still happens at times. I tried to find a good save game to reproduce this issue and all I can say is it happens sometimes. In the attached file (which reads JPG but just change the extension to RAR), I have 2 saves, Save #8 is outside the airport from which I can reproduce the error more often than not, and #10 is the game actually stuck in the "boom loop:. I hope this helps.
It looks like some kind of sound/music system issue.
The explosion sound is still marked as active within the VM in your explosion save, but it isn't active anymore in the sound system. Scripts wait for the sound to be completed, which causes the endless wait.

Can you please download at least the current latest official ScummVM from http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/ or better yet a current daily build from http://buildbot.scummvm.org/builds.html and try again? The music/sound system was changed end of 2014, which was after the 1.7.0 release.

Saved games are compatible, but you can't of course save using for example 1.7.0 and then load the save in 1.6.0. It only works the other way (forward).
Posted January 18, 2016
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PeterC2: I have been able to get past the problem, but still happens at times. I tried to find a good save game to reproduce this issue and all I can say is it happens sometimes. In the attached file (which reads JPG but just change the extension to RAR), I have 2 saves, Save #8 is outside the airport from which I can reproduce the error more often than not, and #10 is the game actually stuck in the "boom loop:. I hope this helps.
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m_kiewitz: It looks like some kind of sound/music system issue.
The explosion sound is still marked as active within the VM in your explosion save, but it isn't active anymore in the sound system. Scripts wait for the sound to be completed, which causes the endless wait.

Can you please download at least the current latest official ScummVM from http://www.scummvm.org/downloads/ or better yet a current daily build from http://buildbot.scummvm.org/builds.html and try again? The music/sound system was changed end of 2014, which was after the 1.7.0 release.

Saved games are compatible, but you can't of course save using for example 1.7.0 and then load the save in 1.6.0. It only works the other way (forward).
I was having problems with Windows 10 where the icons of apps on taskbar where missing, and the standard icons did nothing. I had also noticed that the sound wasn't working. A recent update has fixed those problems and LSL 2seems to be working. I will test this more to ensure no problem exists. Thanks for your help.
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