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liptick Registered user The elf lover Last page view: 5258 days, 8 hours, 25 minutes and 58 seconds ago. |
ive played version 1.1.1 as long as ive known about adom, I'm getting sick of the game crashing on me. im using adom sage and i remember reading something about how it might cause more bugs, i can see how that would be true, but im wondering if anyone else using it experiences frequent crashes ranging from character creation to mid-late game (ANGER!). also does anyone using the vanilla version of 1.1.1 experience this instability? is there a more stable, older version that is not missing any of the 1.1.1 features? I've about had it with this shit, if i can't come up with some sort of solution i just might quite adom. i love this game and the difficulty has ensured that i have a continuing reason to play as ive still never beaten the game, but the longer and farther my characters make it the more likely the game is to crash... thomas is no longer working on adom so if these crashes are inherant and not just some sort of side affect of adom sage then that sucks... |
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Maelstrom Registered user The Knight of the Black Rose Last page view: 3129 days, 21 hours, 47 minutes and 54 seconds ago. |
I've had about 4 crashes in my ADOM career that were not my fault, that is they didn't occure because I've lured tha banshee on the animated forest level with a big screen resolution. I've played ADOM since early Gammas (before there was a mana temple :P ). So I think it's ADOM sage, since I'm not using it. A pessimist sees a dark tunnel. An optimist sees a light at the end of that tunnel. A realist sees a train. And the train driver sees three idiots on the tracks. [Edited 1 time, last edit on 7/28/2009 at 14:46 (GMT -5) by Maelstrom] |
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liptick Registered user The elf lover Last page view: 5258 days, 8 hours, 25 minutes and 58 seconds ago. |
thx, i figured that was likely the case, but it has some nice features that dont alter the game, oh well, maybe ill actually beat the game without it |
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Mi Hai Loo Registered user Demented kobold Last page view: 5392 days, 10 hours, 31 minutes and 20 seconds ago. |
I'm using vanilla Windows version, and almost never get crashed. Though, I save game before dropping *large* amounts of items and before giving to Helavaster AoLS (aargh, I hate this crash!!!). This is the only cases when my ADoM crashes. Don't know anything about DOS version. |
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liptick Registered user The elf lover Last page view: 5258 days, 8 hours, 25 minutes and 58 seconds ago. |
well ive been doing some research and it seems to me that people have different experiences with adom regardless of what version they are using.now that i think about it i dont really remember having much of an issue before using sage, but then again a lot of people say that sage crashes least often for them... a lot of people say the same thing about the winbeta 4 version but of coarse some people hate that as well.... im pretty frustrated with this whole thing, winbeta cant be played full screen, annoing, dos lags enough to be annoing, and i dont have a mac or linux, and sage seems to be the least stable for me... even love must overcome hardship, but usualy love entails getting laid as opposed to being repeatedly exposed to brutal deaths. |
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moomoo Registered user Last page view: 5397 days, 7 hours, 14 minutes and 26 seconds ago. |
Hi, I'm using dos version of 1.1.1 with dosbox (so no fullscreen windows issues) and its working great so far. Take a backup .svg before dropping/picking up lots of items and giving aols to khelly, these seem to be the usual(only so far) crashy spots. |
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liptick Registered user The elf lover Last page view: 5258 days, 8 hours, 25 minutes and 58 seconds ago. |
as far as i know ive never experienced a consistant crash causing bug, and i have not experienced either of those 2, altho ill be sure to keep them in mind, last thing i need is to lose it over a game lol |
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Darren Grey Registered user Last page view: 4252 days, 2 hours, 18 minutes and 42 seconds ago. |
What sort of crashes do you have? Some things to avoid: -too many items on a level, especially if there's monsters there -dropping ingots -giving amulet to Khelly (best to back up first) -choosing skilled talent (I'm sure you know that though :P) Probably some others I'm forgetting... I use Sage all the time and almost never crash. ADOM is far more stable than most commercial games in my experience. Another option is to play on the server, since it auto-backups and restores upon crashes. Waldenbrook, the dwarven shopkeeper, mumbles: "I'd offer 9 gold pieces for yer dwarven child corpse." |
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Hatefulgravey Registered user Last page view: 5347 days, 23 hours, 47 minutes and 4 seconds ago. |
I am using the Windows version, it works well for me so far, but not having a full screen option does suck. I thought about getting DOS box and the DOS version of the game back (this is how I played before I got stuck with Vista) but then I started a character that is doing ok, so I have to wait until I die (because there is really no chance of winning for me right now)to move back. No full screen was a big mistake. Playing for 10 years, got nothing to show for it. |
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gut Registered user Painted this one too. Last page view: 4910 days, 4 hours, 35 minutes and 38 seconds ago. |
> I have to wait until I die The saves are compatable between winbeta and the dos version. Also, I created a thread on the adom.de boards a while back regarding the process of getting ADOM to look good in DosBox. You might want to check it out. Put me in the 'fool filter', where I belong! |