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Posted January 26, 2012
I've installed all the mods suggested in gog.com mod guide (http://www.gog.com/en/news/mod_spotlight_planescape_torment_mods_guide/). No problems. The mods works great. I play the game for about 20 minutes and then, inevitably, at some point when I'm entering or exiting an area, or even sometimes when I'm looting an object - the game crashes.

I've searched through the other threads in here and I've come up with no definitive answers to this.

I'm running Win7 64bit. I've reinstalled twice - once to C: and once to Program Files. No luck.

Has anyone solved this problem? The constant crashing makes the game unenjoyable to the point where I'm losing the desire to play the game all together.

Any help would be much appreciated.
Post edited January 26, 2012 by OhCrapItsJeremy
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Posted January 27, 2012
Try changing the settings in you torment.ini to:

Translucent Shadows=0
SoftSrcKeyBltFast=1
SoftBltFast=1
SoftSrcKeyBlt=1
SoftBlt=1
SoftMirrorBlt=1

And if that doesn't work, try setting them all to 0.
Posted January 30, 2012
I had similar problems on Win 7, but I managed to get it working. It would be a real shame to miss out on this game because of bugs, it's totally worth it to tough it out. PS:T is easily one of the greatest games ever made, PC or otherwise.

I got my PS:T working for Windows 7 64-bit almost perfect (still crashes on close, but no harm done there) by changing the compatibility settings. I installed it to C:\Games, BTW. Pretty sure I read this method in the Icewind Dale forum but it worked with PS:T for me.

Open up the properties menu for the program, go to the compatibility tab, and set it to run in compatibility mode for Windows XP (Service Pack 3). Then click the bottom three options in the next area, one of them is "Disable Visual Themes" I can't remember the others cause I'm on an XP computer at work, but it's the bottom 3 options in that section. Finally, click "Run as administrator" at the bottom and then hit OK and your game should now run crash free.

I'm no expert but this seemed to help me a lot, so I hope it works for you. There are still a few areas in the game that I had crash problems with, but I found pretty easy solutions on the forums from the guys who made the mods (Spellhold Studios, I think) for most of them. Good luck, enjoy the game.
Posted February 01, 2012
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mlands3: I had similar problems on Win 7, but I managed to get it working. It would be a real shame to miss out on this game because of bugs, it's totally worth it to tough it out. PS:T is easily one of the greatest games ever made, PC or otherwise.

I got my PS:T working for Windows 7 64-bit almost perfect (still crashes on close, but no harm done there) by changing the compatibility settings. I installed it to C:\Games, BTW. Pretty sure I read this method in the Icewind Dale forum but it worked with PS:T for me.

Open up the properties menu for the program, go to the compatibility tab, and set it to run in compatibility mode for Windows XP (Service Pack 3). Then click the bottom three options in the next area, one of them is "Disable Visual Themes" I can't remember the others cause I'm on an XP computer at work, but it's the bottom 3 options in that section. Finally, click "Run as administrator" at the bottom and then hit OK and your game should now run crash free.

I'm no expert but this seemed to help me a lot, so I hope it works for you. There are still a few areas in the game that I had crash problems with, but I found pretty easy solutions on the forums from the guys who made the mods (Spellhold Studios, I think) for most of them. Good luck, enjoy the game.
This sounds like a great fix, but unfortuntely, when I have Run in XP SP3 mode checked off and enter the game all of my save games are gone. When I turn off compatibility mode they come back. Any advice?
It seems like changing the ini settings helped stability greatly. But now I'm running into a problem where I get to the fight with the wizard who is controlling all the skeletons and he starts off with a purple spell and that crashes the whole program. I can't even get to the fight.

Any tips on fixing that?
Post edited February 01, 2012 by OhCrapItsJeremy
Posted February 01, 2012
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OhCrapItsJeremy: This sounds like a great fix, but unfortuntely, when I have Run in XP SP3 mode checked off and enter the game all of my save games are gone. When I turn off compatibility mode they come back. Any advice?
I think the XP SP3 thing is storing it's files in a different directory. Can't tell you where though, don't have win7. Create a backup of your saves, start the game in compatibility mode, save, quit, search for the new saved game on disk, copy your old saves where the new one is. Should work.
Posted February 02, 2012
Man...I had it running great. I did a fresh install straight to C:, installed all the mods - but this time I didn't install the F5 quicksave mod and instead saved my games manually. Worked perfectly. No crashes in The Hive, or in the Hive alley or even when I was sent to the Lady of Pain's green labyrinth and there's all those portals. No problems.

Finally, tonight I went into Ragpickers Square, entered a building and immediately left and it crashed.

Running it in XP SP3 compatibility mode with Disable Visual Themes, Disable Desktop Composition and Disable display scaling on high DPI settings as well as administrator mode.

Still....crashing...
Posted February 02, 2012
It was crashing on me every let's say.. 5? zone changes. About that. Thing is, in real time that meant every 1-2 hours, because you spend so much time in one zone, with all the dialogue. Even a crash every hour, considering it saves just before the crash, the saved game is first in list and the total restart/load time is about 10-20 seconds, it's no big deal. Totally worth it in order to play such a game. Specially considering that it's a hacked (optimized for systems of that time) BG1 engine.

Oh, it's not the portals that crash, it's the zone changes. When it does the saving/loading_zone thing. But it never crashed on me before it completed saving. Never lost progress. Not that it can't happen, just didn't happen to me.
Post edited February 02, 2012 by neant
Posted February 02, 2012
While I agree, that the crashing is an inconvience when zone changes happen, I'm having a consistent crash as well.

When I deliver the mysterious box to Ku'atraa in the Warehouse he gets scared and runs from you, telling you to deliver the box to someone else.

AS SOON as he leaves the room the game crashes. So now I can't complete this quest without crashing.
Posted February 03, 2012
Can't help with that, sorry. One way to do it is to simply open the box. But that's the least efficient way.
Someone with the same mods/resolution as you might be able to load your game, deliver the box, save right after if it doesn't crash and send you the save. Maybe.
Posted February 03, 2012
I'm having the same issues. Got all the mods installed appropriately and all that. I get crashes every once in a while... and I can live with that.

HOWEVER, there are areas I simply can't enter/exit without crashing. I can try 100 times in a row and I get the same crash. At this point... I just can't continue playing it. If anyone has any suggestions, great! If not unfortunately I'll have to move on to something more stable.
Posted February 03, 2012
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ghostnova: I'm having the same issues. Got all the mods installed appropriately and all that. I get crashes every once in a while... and I can live with that.

HOWEVER, there are areas I simply can't enter/exit without crashing. I can try 100 times in a row and I get the same crash. At this point... I just can't continue playing it. If anyone has any suggestions, great! If not unfortunately I'll have to move on to something more stable.
Did you start playing on one resolution, and then change to a new one without starting a new game? Cause if so then there's your problem.
Post edited February 03, 2012 by PenutBrittle
Posted February 03, 2012
There were a couple places that happened to me, and one place late in the game where I had a crash I couldn't get around without using a file from an older version of the game. The only way I found was to copy the area file (ARxxx.bin I think, xxx being the area number) and place it directly into your Cache folder. This worked for me for the art gallery, but I bet it'll work for other areas that crash too.
For the late game crash (Foundry) I had to dig to find my old 4-CD copy of the game and copied the file directly from the CD and that worked no problem. So hopefully you have an older version somewhere if it comes to that, but the GOG version shouldn't have this problem, I was running the 2-CD version.
Posted February 03, 2012
I'm curious WHICH mod is causing the crashing. I would assume that if we played without mods the crashing issues would stop?
Posted February 07, 2012
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ghostnova: I'm having the same issues. Got all the mods installed appropriately and all that. I get crashes every once in a while... and I can live with that.

HOWEVER, there are areas I simply can't enter/exit without crashing. I can try 100 times in a row and I get the same crash. At this point... I just can't continue playing it. If anyone has any suggestions, great! If not unfortunately I'll have to move on to something more stable.
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PenutBrittle: Did you start playing on one resolution, and then change to a new one without starting a new game? Cause if so then there's your problem.
Yup. So ... I can't do that? Do I have to restart again? Damn. :(
Posted February 07, 2012
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ghostnova: Yup. So ... I can't do that? Do I have to restart again? Damn. :(
Unfortunately, yeah. Changing the resolution without starting a new game almost 100% guarantees you'll get stuck in some kind of crashing loop. It usually doesn't happen right away, but it almost always starts somewhere down the road. It's an unfortunate limitation of the resolution patch.

EDIT: Changing back the the old resolution sometimes helps, but it didn't do anything for me when I tried it.
Post edited February 07, 2012 by PenutBrittle
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