It was so great to play this classic again without the claustrophobic, limited field of view. Pentagram was working great with Pagan Ultima VIII on my 1920x1200 24" monitor.

My pentagram.ini is standard with 640x480 or 800x600 @1600x1200 to preserve aspect ratio.

But on the Ancient Necromancer's Quest, after getting the "Grant Peace" spell, I teleported to the area with grass in the centre, two chests and a stone throne. The Throne area teleports you to the next area. The chests and the grass have rare ingredients, so it's nice to collect them.

But whenever I walk across the map it crashes at some point - not always the same point.

Sometimes it insta-CTDs with no message, other times I get an Assertion Failure. It's not always the same error, sometimes line 427 or 21 or something else, sometimes it mentions character animation and says to check the C++ documentation or something.

I tried re-installing Pentagram but it doesn't help.

I ran to the throne and teleported to the next level and it insta-crashed as soon as I landed.

This is pretty much a game breaker as I cannot continue. I could try an older save or I could Recall to the plateau and go through again, but I don't know if the error will re-occur or even if I can get through the Necromancers again as I already have some spells so I may not be teleported at the corrct point.

Is there any work around for this?

I DID use some of the cheats to use some spells before I had actually learned the spells, but I don't know if that could corrupt something.


Many Thanks

SB

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