Chittering Clawbug Ircher Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 All you have to do to fix random crashes on Windows 7 (and presumably Vista) is turn off ALL sounds. So, yeah, not as much fun, but still playable and immensing on newer machines! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garrulous Glaahk Nephil Thief Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Hmm. What sounds typically trigger crashes on Win7? This is interesting because I found something similar with Wine, a while back. Spell related sounds (fireball whoosh, etc.) would freeze the game immediately when using the ALSA sound engine. More recent versions of Wine don't have that issue, but I've seen other glitches between sound and graphics; e.g. one where certain sounds cause the menu bar to fill up the entire window. Anyway if the same thing happens in Windows 7 and in Wine, I'm thinking it points to a BoE bug, not a Wine bug... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chittering Clawbug Ircher Posted September 1, 2014 Author Share Posted September 1, 2014 Its a compatibility issue; if u use fewer sounds, it only lower the number of random crashes. Technically, i turn off all soubds, graphic frills, terrain animations,etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Out of curiosity, what version are you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chittering Clawbug Ircher Posted September 3, 2014 Author Share Posted September 3, 2014 idk, same problem in Exile 3; im using the fully registered version directly off the site if you click our games -> older games -> Blades of Exile (Windows 32 bit version) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted September 3, 2014 Share Posted September 3, 2014 Since the code has been open-sourced the community has collectively been modernizing Blades to run on most modern systems. You might want to try out this version and see how it works for you (I have yet to see it crash on Win7 x64, personally). There's links in the forum header. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seasoned Roamer DeltanAmbassador Posted December 20, 2014 Share Posted December 20, 2014 Threads like this are why I still use Win98 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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