jeffmorse752

Speaking of Garzahd in E2, I've taken him out twice with an ur-basilisk (three times if you count the battle in front of Ornotha Ziggurat where he leaves after having only taken a little damage - including stoning. Though that is by no means little.)

I have been a fan of the Exile series since I started playing the games on my old Compaq PC several years ago. Well when I built my first system, I tried the games again, this time from the CDROMs I bought a few years ago on my last system. I began to have serious problems with the games on my last PC, which was the first I built myself. Windows would be so corrupted as to become unboot- able after playing for a while (usually a few hours), and the main sign this was going to happen was the loss of all system sounds. So I uninstalled them from it, and reverted back to my old Compaq PC, which had working registered shareware versions of all four games on it. It used Windows 98SE. A few weeks ago, I thought I would try the CDROMs again, this time on my current system, which I also homebuilt. Crossing my fingers that the earlier problem wouldn't show up again, I jumped right into Exile II. The problem sort of went away. While I didn't get the OS corruption that happened before, playing for a while knocked out audio from media players (videos had no sound). I would have to reboot. Today while playing I got a weird registry space low error message twice, once while playing Exile III, and again after rebooting. I had just gotten outside from my initial visit to Blackcrag Fortress, and didn't want to lose any progress I had made. Then I remembered something else: NVMixerTray, a control panel for NVidia's sound drivers that sits in the system tray, wouldn't load after videos lost sound, and if NVMixerTray was clicked on after a fresh reboot, Exile III would not load. So I disabled NVMixerTray in MSConfig, and though it may be too soon to tell, I think the problem has been resolved. NVMixerTray is an application that is part of the drivers for all nForce series motherboards, and when these are installed or upgraded, it puts itself in the registry to run at startup. It isn't really needed, and in the case of the Exile games (and perhaps others from Spiderweb Software), appears to cause a resource conflict with them.