Ralackk: Are you using a ATI video card? If so check this thread out.
[url=]http://www.gog.com/en/forum/tex_murphy_series/overseer_game_crashes_every_time_i_try_to_examine_something[/url]
If not could you post your system specs and OS?

Ralackk: No problem glad that sorted it. Just curious though are you by anychance running windows 7?

webob45: I have nvidia geforce 9600 XT on Windows 7 and game crashes in Tex's office. I have rolled nback to a previous driver but no luck. Anybody help?

Renzatic: I'm suffering the same problem here. The game runs perfectly smooth for the intro, but starts acting flaky as soon as I get to Tex's office.

I've installed the old DX setup files recommended to me on the support page, and set the shortcut to Win95 compatibility mode. So far, I've only met with limited success. It went from crashing immediately after loading, to crashing during the first monologue, to me being able to walk around the office until I click on something.

...which actually works for a few seconds, but freezes up on me during the description. It'll go something like *click* *get two icons*, *click magnifying glass* "yeah, that's my blah blah blah, it's kinda dusty, so I need to clean it off-off-off-off-off-off-off-off-off-ad infinitum".

The biggest potential monkey in this wrench is that I'm running x64 Windows 8 Release Preview. It shouldn't be too vastly different than 7 though (hopefully). Graphics card is an Nvidia 8800GTS 512. Any advice?

Edit: managed to get a little farther this last go. I actually got to look at and pick up the tape measure then have a look around the office before it hard froze on me. Whatever my problem is, it seems to be semi-random.

Edit #2: Just tried disabling DEP for OVERSEER.EXE. Now it crashes on startup and boots me to the desktop. Well hell.

Edit # Tres: DeDEPped it, rebooted and tried again. This time I walked around the office without touching the mouse. Ran with nary a hiccup. Then I touched the mouse and brought it over to the right side of the screen, and it crashed.

So whatever is up, it either has to do with the mouse or the overlay. EXPERIMENTATION CONTINUES!

Also, if you want to, feel free to chip in. Troubleshooting is a pain in the ass.

Edit # 5: Got it to work by going into the advanced preferences menu from the title screen and turning off hardware acceleration. Yeah, I can only play the game 640x480 now instead of super high res HD ready 800x600. But comeon, that's for people with...like...8 meg of ram. My Packard Bell can only take 4.

It ain't the best solution, but it works. Looks just a little crisper than Pandora Directive now.

Renzatic: Thanks. I'll keep the link handy in case I experience any problems later. For now though, the game is running perfectly, so I'm not going to poke and prod at it unless I absolutely have to.

Really, the only thing I'm missing out on is a slightly higher resolution option and trilinear filtered textures. For a game this old, that's not that big of a deal.

Renzatic: Alright, for the sake of troubleshooting and getting potential fixes posted up, I went ahead and gave it a go.

In software mode, it made no difference. Game still runs perfectly fine for me. Didn't make anything better or worse for me there.

Hardware acceleration. Same deal. If I don't touch the mouse, I can walk around without any problems. Soon as I start moving the cursor or clicking around, the game will eventually hard freeze on me. Sometimes immediately, sometimes after 20-30 seconds. It's weird.

I can pretty safely say by this point that CPU affinity isn't my problem. If I were to take a guess as to what it could be, I'd chalk it up to hardware drivers. Even though it doesn't do it 100% of the time, it does seem to freeze more often than not when the pointer changes to a crosshair. Maybe the game makes some old legacy call for the mouse overlay that isn't supported in my driver set.

On a guess, I'd say that rolling back the drivers would fix me up. But since I'm on Windows 8 at the mo, I don't have much choice in what I use. It's gotta be the latest and greatest from Nvidia.

So...problem still not 100% solved. : \

Renzatic: I'm suffering the same problem here. The game runs perfectly smooth for the intro, but starts acting flaky as soon as I get to Tex's office.

I've installed the old DX setup files recommended to me on the support page, and set the shortcut to Win95 compatibility mode. So far, I've only met with limited success. It went from crashing immediately after loading, to crashing during the first monologue, to me being able to walk around the office until I click on something.

...which actually works for a few seconds, but freezes up on me during the description. It'll go something like *click* *get two icons*, *click magnifying glass* "yeah, that's my blah blah blah, it's kinda dusty, so I need to clean it off-off-off-off-off-off-off-off-off-ad infinitum".

The biggest potential monkey in this wrench is that I'm running x64 Windows 8 Release Preview. It shouldn't be too vastly different than 7 though (hopefully). Graphics card is an Nvidia 8800GTS 512. Any advice?

Edit: managed to get a little farther this last go. I actually got to look at and pick up the tape measure then have a look around the office before it hard froze on me. Whatever my problem is, it seems to be semi-random.

Edit #2: Just tried disabling DEP for OVERSEER.EXE. Now it crashes on startup and boots me to the desktop. Well hell.

Edit # Tres: DeDEPped it, rebooted and tried again. This time I walked around the office without touching the mouse. Ran with nary a hiccup. Then I touched the mouse and brought it over to the right side of the screen, and it crashed.

So whatever is up, it either has to do with the mouse or the overlay. EXPERIMENTATION CONTINUES!

Also, if you want to, feel free to chip in. Troubleshooting is a pain in the ass.

Edit # 5: Got it to work by going into the advanced preferences menu from the title screen and turning off hardware acceleration. Yeah, I can only play the game 640x480 now instead of super high res HD ready 800x600. But comeon, that's for people with...like...8 meg of ram. My Packard Bell can only take 4.

It ain't the best solution, but it works. Looks just a little crisper than Pandora Directive now.