Battle Music Not Stopping

HaHaCharade

Still having issues even as of latest patch with Battle Music not ending. This seems prevalent in Adoy's Enclave but also happens in other areas. Curious if anyone else has the issue? I'm *sure* its been reported for a few years now, so maybe its my setup.

Davide

Discussion moved.
About the issue, are you sure that there is no enemy left over somewhere on the map? Or in general other figures with the red circle. Maybe you use AoE spells and make enemies even from neutral beings.

HaHaCharade

Davide wrote: »

Discussion moved.
About the issue, are you sure that there is no enemy left over somewhere on the map? Or in general other figures with the red circle. Maybe you use AoE spells and make enemies even from neutral beings.

Restarting the game seems to have fixed it... Thanks.

ThacoBell

I have this issue pop up from time to time. Changing maps and saving/reloading seems to fix it.

JuliusBorisov

We'd really appreciate if someone manages to repro this bug permanently.

https://support.baldursgate.com/issues/38963

@Tresset , any ideas?

jmerry

I just had it happen again. I made a quicksave, then went to the ice island. Fight Winter Wolves just inside, battle music won't stop until I leave the dungeon. Reload save, same thing. Quit the game and start it again? Battle music behaves normally.

Whatever's going on here, it's not contained in the save. It's tied to specific areas, accumulating over time - and reset whenever the program restarts. Once an area goes bad, it stays bad; leaving and coming back or loading a save won't help.

It's all very frustrating for a developer, of course; by its very nature, this is something that is hard to reproduce. I could provide the save, but for the reasons stated above, I'm sure it won't help.

(My version: Mac, from GOG, v2.5.17.0)

dunbar

The ice island in BG1 and the slaver ship in BG2 are probably the two areas where it can almost be guaranteed to happen in my games but for the reason mentioned above can't be replicated in a save game.
One thing that all instances of this problem have in common is that it always (and only) occurs when my party is underground/indoors.

HaHaCharade

dunbar wrote: »

The ice island in BG1 and the slaver ship in BG2 are probably the two areas where it can almost be guaranteed to happen in my games but for the reason mentioned above can't be replicated in a save game.
One thing that all instances of this problem have in common is that it always (and only) occurs when my party is underground/indoors.

Mine always occurs outdoors LoL

dunbar

I give up!

BelgarathMTH

I've had this very annoying music bug constantly come up in the EE's almost since it was released. It can happen anywhere at any time, from the beginning of the game. The last time I started a run and played for a while, from Candlekeep through rescuing Dynaheir and killing Mulahey in the Nashkel Mines, I never encountered it, so I had thought that maybe the most recent version of EE had finally stopped the bug. I guess not. Sad.

Bubb

@JuliusBorisov: I have a really weird way of reproducing this by screwing with area transitions. It works most of the time... and persists beyond game restarts, so hopefully this is something that helps.

1) Load the attached game. (BG:EE)

2) Select the Dushai that has been forced into the party.

3) Move Dushai, and ONLY Dushai, into the house next to the characters.

4) Get a line of sight and some distance between Dushai and the Commoner, (located in the lower-left portion of the house), then Pause.

5) Order Dushai to attack the Commoner, Unpause, and quickly switch to the protagonist, which is still located in the outer map. It is important that the combat music starts *after* the area has changed.

6) Wait for at least 6 seconds, leaving the game unpaused and not viewing the fight in the house. If the combat music loops, you have done this correctly. If the music ends, reload the save and try again.

7) Pause the game, select Dushai to view the house, and order Dushai to move to any point in the house, (ending combat).

8) Unpause, and while Dushai is moving, quickly select the protagonist.

9) Again, wait at least 6 seconds. If the music is still playing, it will play forever until another fight occurs.

As far as I can tell by inspecting the assembly, these series of steps is tricking the game into "changing" the current music, while never actually staring the new one / stopping the old one.