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Issue: Game crashing at Silo

Discussion in 'Planescape: Torment (Classic)' started by BruceVC, Feb 1, 2013.

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    Hi All
    My first post, sorry to be asking for help

    I am currently playing Planescape and have hit a bug in Curst when I try to enter the silo and the game crashes.

    This is an issue that is known about and there is a solution, see the link below. I even posted a question on this thread



    http://www.gog.com/forum/planescape_torment/stuck_in_a_certain_disc_4_grain_silo


    The solution involves using a Hex editor and the Torment.exe file, see below


    http://www.shsforums.net/topic/37824-please-report-crashes-here/page-9?p=534474



    Now here is my issue, I have downloaded a Hex Editor and opened the Torment.exe file but have no idea how to actually find the 1920x 1080 resolution in the file. Do I search on Hex values in the Torment.exe file? To make it clearer someone with the same issue as me in the same thread posted the following below. But I can't get right what he did, how do I find the strings he mentioned in the Hex? And then once I have found the Hex what values do I replace them with? I know there are people on these forums with advanced and prodigious intellects so hopefully someone can assist





    "I've got a Hex editor and I'm trying to apply this fix, but I can't figure it out (I have no knowledge of Hex at all, really). I've opened Torment.exe, searched and found the strings you listed, but I'm a bit confused as to what I'm editing and what I should be editing it to.
    The resolution I'm using is 1920x1080, and I've gone and found out what those are in Hex (0x780 and 0x438 respectively) but I'm a little stuck from there. No idea how to get from those to the XX XX XX etc. format.

    Would I be correct in doing this: 1920x1080 - Replace 80 02 with 80 07 and replace E0 01 with 38 04 ??
    EDIT:
    Looks like I was, no longer crashing when leaving Mebbeth's Hut."
    Thanks for the fix!
     
    BruceVC, Feb 1, 2013
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    OK from what I gather from those posts, you need to search for the four patterns shown and replace the bolded parts. When you find each of the four patterns (each of the lines that begin with "search:"), you replace 80 02 with 80 07 and E0 01 with 38 04 if you are using 1920x1080 resolution.

    I would make a copy of Torment.exe before you try this so that if you do it wrong, you still have the original to fall back on.
     
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    Thanks Blackthorne, I'll try this and give feedback on the outcome

    ---------- Added 5 hours, 24 minutes and 36 seconds later... ----------

    Just an update, on the same forum I posted there is hotfix that scient posted that automatically does what I was trying to do manually. It works and I can now proceed with Torment :)

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