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In the art gallery located in the Clerk's Ward I constantly crash. At first this seemed random, but after repeatedly reloading saves and trying to explore the area, t seems that the game will only CTD when any of my party gets close to Yvana and her section of the gallery.

Has anyone encountered this bug and found a fix for it? Help would be greatly appreciated as I have been loving this game (first time playing :( ).

I'm running windows vista 64-bit if that helps. Also running the recommended mods from this mod guide http://www.gog.com/en/news/mod_spotlight_planescape_torment_mods_guide/
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It looks like the fixpack mod might be the problem

http://www.shsforums.net/topic/37824-please-report-crashes-here/page__st__120

No idea how to fix it other then to remove the mod.
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Ralackk: It looks like the fixpack mod might be the problem

http://www.shsforums.net/topic/37824-please-report-crashes-here/page__st__120

No idea how to fix it other then to remove the mod.
Yeah I saw that thread. Do you know if it is okay to remove the mod then continue the same game? Or am I going to have to start again? Thanks for the help.
I'm fairly sure you can carry on with your game if you remove the fixpack. It couldn't hurt to back your saves up though just incase.
Uninstalling the fixpack caused the game to CTD as soon as I tried to load any of my saves. Reinstalling it allowed me to load them as normal so I didn't need to start again. I think I'm going to just continue this game and skip the art gallery if its possible, will try the next game without mods I guess. Thanks for the help anyway.
Quicksaving in the museum and clearing out the cache and temp files allowed me to continue playing. Map file corruption perhaps?

Running the game on Windows XP 32-bit / 2 GB RAM / GeForce GTX 285 at 1600x1200 resolution with UI resolution set to 80%.
I'm having the same issue (i7, Win 7-64 bit) - just to confirm that it's still happening. I also quite often get crashes on area change. ie: Every time you go through a door, portal, or gate, you run a good risk of CTD. I've developed a habit of mashing quicksave before almost any action.

Back to the gallery crash... I'd be surprised if a game started with the fixpack installed were playable without it - the readme says specifically that installing it will break any preexisting saves, and I see no reason to suspect it would be ok the other way around. Having the game break at this point is a certain loss of quite a bit of experience, but I'm pretty sure you can complete the game without the quest(s) that need this location.

Running the game with various XP-sp3 compatibility and admin privs makes no or very little difference. The only thing I've found that seems to work (at least sometimes) is pause immediately upon entering, click to interact with person or object, unpause, do whatever it is, pause immediately, click to exit, and unpause again. It seems to be the passage of time in there that is hanging it up, rather than where you are or what you're doing.
Post edited February 11, 2011 by cybes
Sorry for the thread necromancy, but I've just bumped into the very same problem. Have any solutions been found yet?
Upload your saved game + weidu.log someplace and I can see if I can reproduce crash.
I also experience random crashes mainly entering and exiting areas, but the art gallery one is always reproducible. Do we have any news on this issue?

I have patched the game for high resolution, with the fix pack, unfinished bussiness and tweaks exactly as suggested in the guide.

Tried on Win7 x64 SP1 and Windows XP SP3 (winXP was on VMWare). Nothing seems to fix it.
I just got this same crash in the art gallery. Tried quick saving in the gallery and clearing the cache as someone indicated above, but no luck.

A later post in the SHS forums thread posted earlier (http://www.shsforums.net/topic/37824-please-report-crashes-here/page__view__findpost__p__503758) shows what's happening on my game, if anyone enters the red area marked in his picture the game crashes. Any ideas?
Well apparently no one cares enough to get this fixed because no one has posted a saved game or weidu.log (other than poster in SHS thread) so I can debug the game and figure out why that bif is causing the game to crash. If someone does post a saved game, I will look at it. Although I doubt it has anything to do with fixpack/tweaks/UB.
Somehow I missed your post there. Can't upload anything other than pictures, so just rename the two jpg extensions to .log and .zip.
Is it only me that can't see the other file I posted? Never mind, I'll just attach it to this post as well, just in case.
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Post edited January 14, 2012 by cyberneticbarry
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cyberneticbarry: Somehow I missed your post there. Can't upload anything other than pictures, so just rename the two jpg extensions to .log and .zip.
Is it only me that can't see the other file I posted? Never mind, I'll just attach it to this post as well, just in case.
Ok, I can't reproduce it with just the save so it doesn't look like its problem with fixpack/tweak or UB. Is there any reason you're using such an old version of Widescreen mod? Everything else (albeit ghostdog UI which he updated week or so ago) is up to date. But WS mod is like a year old.

http://www.gibberlings3.net/readmes/readme-widescreen.html
http://www.shsforums.net/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=683

Try creating a new install with all the same mods installed from fixpack/tweakpack/UB as well as updated version of WS/Ghostdog mod. Make sure to use same resolution. Then see if your save game loads ok and whether or not you get the gallery crash.
My install was with the most updated version of the patches and mods as far as I can tell:
widescreen mod v3.05
ghostdogs UI mod 2.2.7
pstfixpack 4.12
psttweaks 4.11
Unfinished Business 4.11
(and lately I installed the drawfix weidu patch)
Resolution is 1600x900.

I have been having some random crashed mainly when entering or exiting rooms, and somewhat rarely when already in an area and just exploring.

But the art gallery crash always happens and indeed seems related to a charcter (NPC or PC) moving about the location that was indicated in the SHS post (area near Yvanna, bottom-right)

@Win7 x64 SP1. The install was made in the "Program Files (x86)" directory. I cleared the cache and temp folders but it did not help.
@WinXP SP3 (via VMWare) same problem (tried with a bunch of different resolutions), using a save game from the previous installation. The installation in WinXP was first inside the Program Files, and then I tried an installation to a "C:\games" folder. The crash still occured.

Would it help if I, too, uploaded files from my installation?
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