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Acperience

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Game Freezes on Ghost Haunting
« on: May 30, 2011, 07:01:51 pm »
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My game has been crashing consistently whenever this ghostly miller appears to haunt my fortress. He wasn't one of my dwarves and I'm certain he wasn't part of a caravan either.

Any in case my game stops responding either right after the haunting message or right before, when I assume, it's about to appear.

There is literally no time to carve a memorial to advert the haunting since I saved too close to "zero hour".

What can i do to fix this?

I use the Gem Warfare, Black Powder Firearms mods along with ~4 races from the fortress defense mod and I use Ironhand's graphics pack.
« Last Edit: May 30, 2011, 07:03:27 pm by Acperience »
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Re: Game Freezes on Ghost Haunting
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2011, 07:03:21 pm »
Upgrade to .25, this issue has been fixed/lessened such that ghosts are not an FPS killer anymore.
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Re: Game Freezes on Ghost Haunting
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2011, 07:04:31 pm »
Quote from: Girlinhat on May 30, 2011, 07:03:21 pm
Upgrade to .25, this issue has been fixed/lessened such that ghosts are not an FPS killer anymore.

I am playing .25 and it's not "killing" my fps in any perceptible way, the game just stops working immediately. And I've had ghost hauntings before.

Besides I can see the ghost floating around even before I get the message.
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Re: Game Freezes on Ghost Haunting
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2011, 07:05:59 pm »
Hmm, have you attempted any Runesmith hacking?  You may be able to un-ghost him or something, not sure.
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Re: Game Freezes on Ghost Haunting
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2011, 07:09:12 pm »
Going to try runesmith now I guess.

I'm using vista x32 on this laptop.
And I tried the game with and without uncompressed saves.


Edit: Runesmith has the miller show up as ALIVE and NOT dead and he has a "breathing problem". I don't see any option to kill or remove him without committing genocide on the entire dwarven race.

Edit 2: Found the delete.
« Last Edit: May 30, 2011, 07:18:56 pm by Acperience »
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Re: Game Freezes on Ghost Haunting
« Reply #5 on: May 30, 2011, 07:18:42 pm »
No idea, only dabbled in Runesmith to poke at skill levels, but it seems like the go-to for this type of thing.
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Re: Game Freezes on Ghost Haunting
« Reply #6 on: May 30, 2011, 07:24:16 pm »
After erasing him from existence the game still crashes. I'd really hate to have to start from an earlier backup.
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Re: Game Freezes on Ghost Haunting
« Reply #7 on: May 30, 2011, 07:32:49 pm »
Quote from: Acperience on May 30, 2011, 07:24:16 pm
After erasing him from existence the game still crashes. I'd really hate to have to start from an earlier backup.

Turn off your computer, or dwarf fortress, for a bit. It might be overheating or something.

I don't know.
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Re: Game Freezes on Ghost Haunting
« Reply #8 on: May 30, 2011, 07:38:26 pm »
Quote from: Sir Leonard III on May 30, 2011, 07:32:49 pm
Quote from: Acperience on May 30, 2011, 07:24:16 pm
After erasing him from existence the game still crashes. I'd really hate to have to start from an earlier backup.

Turn off your computer, or dwarf fortress, for a bit. It might be overheating or something.

I don't know.

I've had this happening since last night :/

It's been like groundhog day where i scramble to do whatever i can to try to prevent the freeze and when the time comes it happens anyways.
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