HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mac Demo crashes

[beardedfish]

Just wanted to let you all know that same happens for me. Running the demo from the .dmg fixes it. I am running 10.5 on a last gen G4 iBook. I know it doesn't meet min specs, but it runs well enough. . . The only 'extras' I have are flip4mac and Divx system pref. add ons.

[pumilamac]

I'm not using any anti-Virus software. I'll try the run-it-from-the-dmg trick and see it that works for me.

[Jude]

Or make a new administrator account on your Mac and log in to it, install the game and see if it works.

Jude

[mpotocnik]

@pumilamac and @idlewastr

Have You two by any chance your HD formated with HFS, Jornualed Case Sensitive? If so that's the problem. Game runs without any problem if disk format is ordinary HFS or HFS, Jornualed Case Insensitive ...



best regards

[idlewaster]

@mptocnik, thanks for pm'ing me, I'm only casually reading this forum.

Yes, I confirm that all my HDs, I use under Mac OS X, are formatted HFS+, journaled, case sensitive.

As we now know this, Tom might hopefully be able to fix this.

Thanks, mpotocnik

[Erunno]

I can confirm this bug as well (first generation Intel MacBook, Mac OS X 10.5.2 with HFS+ (journaled, case sensitive)).

As much as I hate to put pressure on you, but I was planning to buy this game but am very much inclined to postpone the purchase until this bug is fixed. Reinstalling Mac OS X just for this game is out of question and playing from the disk image as well since I doubt that I can apply patches to it.

The existence of this bug is also a bit puzzling, since Book 1 seems to work under Linux where almost all filesystems are case sensitive by default.

[BasiliskWrangler]

The existence of this bug is also a bit puzzling, since Book 1 seems to work under Linux where almost all filesystems are case sensitive by default.

Agreed. We use the exact same files/file names on both systems. The code should be identical.

Is everyone experiencing the same problem here: a crash upon pressing "Start" to launch the game? Is the disk filesystem format the universal connection between everyone's problem? How may people here with this problem are running PowerPC Macs versus Intel Macs?

We might be able to track this nasty bug down!

[Dragonlady]

The existence of this bug is also a bit puzzling, since Book 1 seems to work under Linux where almost all filesystems are case sensitive by default.

Agreed. We use the exact same files/file names on both systems. The code should be identical.

Is everyone experiencing the same problem here: a crash upon pressing "Start" to launch the game? Is the disk filesystem format the universal connection between everyone's problem? How may people here with this problem are running PowerPC Macs versus Intel Macs?

We might be able to track this nasty bug down!

I've got both and it hasn't happened to me once on either one of my computers, not even during beta testing.

[deadwriter]

Well, even after I purchased it, the game crashes in the same spot.

In the west forest, as I move right.
It doesn't always crash in exactly the same square.

What information can I provide you that will help.

[BasiliskWrangler]

What information can I provide you that will help.

A saved game.

.zip up your game saved game slot, right before the point where it crashes. Send it to me and tell me what to do to make it crash.

Thanks!

[thomcom]

I'm chiming in to tell you that I, too, have a Dual Core MBP with case sensitive journaled HFS and my start menu crashes if I click anything from the "Start" screen.

Exception Type: EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x0000000000000030
Crashed Thread: 0

Thread 0 Crashed:
0 Eschalon Book I 0x000cc8cd 0x1000 + 833741
1 Eschalon Book I 0x000630b4 0x1000 + 401588
2 Eschalon Book I 0x00007b58 0x1000 + 27480
3 Eschalon Book I 0x00003def 0x1000 + 11759
4 Eschalon Book I 0x00003809 0x1000 + 10249
5 com.apple.Foundation 0x92d0e2dc _nsnote_callback + 364
6 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9693daba __CFXNotificationPost + 362
7 com.apple.CoreFoundation 0x9693dd93 _CFXNotificationPostNotification + 179
8 com.apple.Foundation 0x92d0b440 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:userInfo:] + 128
9 com.apple.Foundation 0x92d14c88 -[NSNotificationCenter postNotificationName:object:] + 56
10 com.apple.AppKit 0x94ed1a62 -[NSApplication _postDidFinishNotification] + 125
11 com.apple.AppKit 0x94ed1971 -[NSApplication _sendFinishLaunchingNotification] + 77
12 com.apple.AppKit 0x94e4b517 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleAEOpen:] + 284
13 com.apple.AppKit 0x94e4ad10 -[NSApplication(NSAppleEventHandling) _handleCoreEvent:withReplyEvent:] + 98
14 com.apple.Foundation 0x92d337ff -[NSAppleEventManager dispatchRawAppleEvent:withRawReply:handlerRefCon:] + 655
15 com.apple.Foundation 0x92d3350f _NSAppleEventManagerGenericHandler + 223
16 com.apple.AE 0x94ae8648 aeDispatchAppleEvent(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*, unsigned long, unsigned char*) + 144
17 com.apple.AE 0x94ae857e dispatchEventAndSendReply(AEDesc const*, AEDesc*) + 44
18 com.apple.AE 0x94ae8425 aeProcessAppleEvent + 177
19 com.apple.HIToolbox 0x95ff9b61 AEProcessAppleEvent + 38
20 com.apple.AppKit 0x94e48601 _DPSNextEvent + 1189
21 com.apple.AppKit 0x94e47ca0 -[NSApplication nextEventMatchingMask:untilDate:inMode:dequeue:] + 128
22 com.apple.AppKit 0x94e40cdb -[NSApplication run] + 795
23 Eschalon Book I 0x00003db5 0x1000 + 11701
24 Eschalon Book I 0x00003052 0x1000 + 8274
25 Eschalon Book I 0x00002f79 0x1000 + 8057

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (32-bit):
eax: 0x00000000 ebx: 0x0000005a ecx: 0x9446383c edx: 0x00208320
edi: 0x00000000 esi: 0x00000004 ebp: 0xbfffeb68 esp: 0xbfffeb60
ss: 0x0000001f efl: 0x00010286 eip: 0x000cc8cd cs: 0x00000017
ds: 0x0000001f es: 0x0000001f fs: 0x00000000 gs: 0x00000037
cr2: 0x00000030