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Gem Bag/Potion Case crashes game (and causing an npc to be cloned repeatedly?)

KavinKavin Member Posts: 6
edited December 2012 in Not An Issue
I've had considerable problems with the Gem Bag and Potion Case causing the game to crash (lock-up). I basically have to open it, click on one item, and then quickly exit and hope. Save, rinse and repeat until everything has been removed that I want. Very annoying.

As an added bonus, it appears to also be making the Bartender from the Nashkel Inn to be cloned in the northwest section of the Nashkel map, just beyond the bridge. While I can't prove it's related to the containers causing the game to crash, I did note that after suffering two more container-related crashes this session, two more clones of the Bartender appeared. I'm currently up to 20 clones of the Bartender, not counting the original in the Inn.
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  • KavinKavin Member Posts: 6
    Just a follow-up - Was in the sector southwest of Nashkel, and experienced another crash (not container-related, this time). Afterwards, while clearing the map, I just happened to notice a bit of blue all the way up in the northwest corner of the map, almost off the map. Yup, it was the Bartender, again!
  • DeucetipherDeucetipher Member Posts: 521
    You should click edit, in the top right corner, and shift this to the bugs>BGEE forum.
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  • Avenger_teambgAvenger_teambg Member, Developer Posts: 5,862
    Please send your crash dumps to beamdmp@gmail.com
  • KirkorKirkor Member Posts: 700
    Let me guess:
    This happens in multiplayer game?

    NPC cloning was a terrible and annoying bug in original BG2 multiplayer.
  • KavinKavin Member Posts: 6
    Yeah, multiplayer for the cloning problem. The container bug has happened in both single and multi.

    I'll send my crash dumps as requested. :)
  • Avenger_teambgAvenger_teambg Member, Developer Posts: 5,862
    Thanks for sending the crash dumps, hopefully they reach the devs. Maybe this bug causes the cloned commoners in weird places as well?
  • KavinKavin Member Posts: 6
    I suspect there is some connection as to the location of the cloned npc and where the crash occurred. I've had one crash in the sector southwest of Nashkel, and there is one Bartender hiding almost offscreen in the extreme northwest corner of that map (you can just barely touch him with the mouse pointer). Most of my other crashes have been container-related and have taken place inside the shop in Nashkel. Currently there are some 28 Bartender clones hobnobbing in the northwest corner of Nashkel. Mind you, I only have 26 crash files, so it would seem that some crashes might generate more than one Bartender? I dunno. I haven't seen any other cloned Bartenders in any other location than those two places, and while I can't say for sure where all I've had crashes, I know I've had some in places other than those two areas.

    I am curious why it's always the Bartender (at least in my case). Is his code and the container code somehow connected in some unfortunate manner? Do other people experiencing this problem also getting cloned Bartenders, or a different npc?

    I'm also starting to wonder if the problem isn't inventory-related, rather than just container-related. The crash I had southwest of Nashkel happened when I was looting a corpse. All my inventory slots were full so I had opened my inventory to pass stuff to a follower and the game crashed. I've had one or two crashes when buying stuff from Thalyntyr, and at least one crash when pulling stuff out of a barrel I had extra stuff stashed in. Quite a few gem/potion container-related crashes, too, of course.

    Anyway, hopefully the crash dumps I sent will help. I only sent the most recent three. I'll be happy to send others if they want to see them.

  • Avenger_teambgAvenger_teambg Member, Developer Posts: 5,862
    The crash might happen when the system cannot place the clone. I know that can cause crash.
    Now, if you just show me a way to reliably clone bartenders, we could fix this problem.
  • Avenger_teambgAvenger_teambg Member, Developer Posts: 5,862
    I missed the multiplayer bit, that makes it much more difficult to reproduce.
  • KavinKavin Member Posts: 6
    It is multiplayer, but it's just me playing by myself in multiplayer mode, so there shouldn't be any outside influences causing things to happen.
  • Avenger_teambgAvenger_teambg Member, Developer Posts: 5,862
    Thanks, then i can still try to reproduce and present a case to the devs.
  • Avenger_teambgAvenger_teambg Member, Developer Posts: 5,862
    If this bug happens to anyone with the r2012 (or later) patch on, please upload a saved game/crash dump and post a link.
  • MistbornMistborn Member Posts: 7
    in my CASE, the scroll CASE have this issue. (in 1.0.2012)
    "I basically have to open it, click on one item, and then quickly exit and hope. Save, rinse and repeat until everything has been removed that I want. Very annoying."
    i lived the same.
    i play multiplayer and everyone is crashing if somebody "playing" within the scroll case. so i pulled out every scroll one by one from the scroll container, (quicksave after every takeout), after 30 min crashing, i succeed and dropped away the scroll case. i never dare to use the gem bag though. it was scary.
  • MistbornMistborn Member Posts: 7
    although i didnt experience any cloned npc
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