#10526 [Linux] The game should not hang when casting a spell sequencer.

mirandir

Hello,

On Linux, the game crashes when a character cast the Minor Sequencer spell. It shouldn't


I attach a save which shows the problem. You have to
1. load it
2. select the mage
3. cast Minor Sequencer on a Linux OS.


Notes :
tested with Intel Ivy Bridge and Nvidia GeForce GT 710M graphic cards.
tested with GOG and Steam versions
The Windows version doesn't crash.

Anomaly

I confirm this bug on the Linux Steam version. When someone casts Minor sequencer, the casting animation plays for one round as expected, then the game freezes when the dialog box to select the spells to put into the minor sequencer is supposed to show.

I have also tried on the Windows Beamdog version under Wine, it works correctly. So it is a bug specific to the native Linux port of the game.

Intel i7-3770K (Ivy Bridge) - 4GB RAM - nVidia Geforce GTS 450 with nVidia proprietary driver - Ubuntu 14.04 64 bits - Steam version of IWD:EE

Illydth

I'd love to try to repo this and make sure it wasn't a corruption in the saved game, but I can't seem to get the console to work in the Linux version of the game...is this a known issue? (I've been testing on multiple platforms, haven't had a need to turn the console on in the Linux version till now).

My problem with the save attached is it looks like you've forced the level 1 mage to have minor sequencer both learned and memorized. The mage has no level 4 spell slot that she's supposed to cast (she's a level 1 after all) so I'm not sure that's not affecting the issue.

Illydth

Ok, so I created a new save with the proper level and spell consoled in. So now we have a 6th level mage with 60K XP having learned minor sequencer. She has a spell slot for it and a memorized spell for it.

And yes, it still crashes. Doesn't matter whether you have only one spell memorized or a bunch, you cannot load the secondary screen that allows you to select from the learned spells to slot into sequencer.

I can indeed confirm this.

Now we just have to wait for a Dev to come by and tag it.

Troodon80

Illydth said:

Now we just have to wait for a Dev to come by and tag it.

Tagged. #10526. :-)

yaga

Not only Minor Sequenser, any of 5 sequensers (minor sequencer, contingency, spell sequencer, spell trigger, chain contingency) do the same, only reset button helps. Ubuntu 14.04

mirandir

yaga said:

Not only Minor Sequenser, any of 5 sequensers (minor sequencer, contingency, spell sequencer, spell trigger, chain contingency) do the same, only reset button helps. Ubuntu 14.04

You're right. I edited the title of my topic.

Illydth

Reset Button not needed. Open a terminal window prior to starting IWD:EE, you can alt-tab (standard switch tasks) to the terminal window and then kill -9 the two processes.

ps aux | grep cewind
kill -9

Problem is if you don't already have a terminal window (or at least a secondary window open) there's no way to tab out to the other window...and since you can't get to the interface with the crashed game, you can't open anything else.

Keeping a terminal window open will save you from a lot of lock ups and crashes in XWindows.

Anomaly

What I am doing in such a situation is to switch to a text virtual console with Ctrl + Alt + F1. You switch to text mode. Then you can log in, and do your killall -9 IcewindDale. When it's done you can switch back to GUI with Alt + F7.

fig_wright

I've just ran into exactly this problem in Baldur's Gate EE on Mint Linux... :-(

beebip

I run into this exact problem in Baldur's Gate EE as well. On Ubuntu 14.04.