pukey brunster on 9/2/2025 at 06:33
Quote Posted by littlek
I am having the same game crashing issue Plumph is having but I crashed while in the Gallery. I too have been playing for over 9 hours. I don't want to restart the mission so I guess it ends right when I was going on the tour. Are there any fixes?
I never imagined anyone would play the mission for that many hours, it's hard to imagine what anyone would do in so much time, lol. You should be able to finish it in about 2 or 3 hours. As Nicked said, there could be a slow memory leak somewhere.. this was my very first mission ever and I didn't know a lot about Dromed, and even now I wouldn't know how to track something like that down. If you want I can send you a save game tho, so PM me if you want :D
littlek on 11/2/2025 at 09:32
Quote Posted by pukey brunster
I never imagined anyone would play the mission for that many hours, it's hard to imagine what anyone would do in so much time, lol. You should be able to finish it in about 2 or 3 hours. As Nicked said, there could be a slow memory leak somewhere.. this was my very first mission ever and I didn't know a lot about Dromed, and even now I wouldn't know how to track something like that down. If you want I can send you a save game tho, so PM me if you want :D
I have a habit of ko'ing all opposition and then taking my time scouring for loot and secrets. I'd love a saved game. I'll PM you. Thanks.
Jax64 on 12/2/2025 at 01:30
About the crashing issue, this mission's gamesys looks to be based on the DEDX gamesys, which is known to have issues with the metaproperty duplication that nicked has already mentioned (among several other problems). If the conditions that cause this are triggered and persist for enough time, the game will eventually crash. While it is difficult to say whether this is actually the culprit in the absence of a save, there is a generic fix available in the form of (
https://github.com/Xanfre/T2FMDML/blob/main/T2FMDML/dbmods/dedx.dml) this DML, which is included in the T2FMDML package.
bjack on 16/2/2025 at 20:09
Great first FM Pukey Brunster! However, my game also crashed at about 6 hours of play. I got as far as placing the last “key” into a fountain and boom. The prior 3 saves would not load either. I didn't know of the dedx.dml at the time of the start of my game, so I may try again with the DML.
Even though it crashed very near the end, I enjoyed the FM a lot. I did have to consult the walkthrough a couple of times (mainly for the map). I sort of hate looking at walkthroughs though because I can't help but see spoilers for things later in the game that I wish I had not seen. The Rose puzzle was one of those.
One part did make me a bit frustrated. The blessing pool puzzle. I understood what to do, but ran into a problem with the ”air” bush, which was what I chose to be the last to shoot. Air = Gas, right? So I shot it with a gas arrow and it didn't highlight and start glowing like the other bushes when hit. I thought there must be some other unknown arrow I needed to find. I had to watch a “let's Play” to see the last hightlight does not occur, but the big blue crystal still becomes active. I haven't tried a different order to see if the non-highlight occurs on the last bush chosen, or just the air bush. . I know. I know. A pretty AR thing to worry about ;)
I remember that I played this on another computer back when it was first released, but I didn't remember any of the play except for the trophy statues. It was nice to have forgotten it and play it like it was the first time. I feel it's worth another go, worling faster and using the DML just to finish it :D
Update:
Completed on expert in 4 hours and short 977 of full loot. Of course it was much easier the 2nd time around (actually the 3rd counting 9 years ago). No glitches this time. I confirmed the blessing puzzle soes not highlight the last hit before activation.
One fun thing about the earlier 6 hour long try is that the game started to get squirrelly with my bow and arrows. I was trying to shoot a rope arrow and the arrow turned into a sword with a skull at the hilt. When shot, it stuck a skull into the targeted wood ! Funny.
lordhern on 17/2/2025 at 22:34
If the T2FMDML mod is loaded will it protect all FM's that are based on DEDX? Or are there some that might require manually creating a DML?
Jax64 on 20/2/2025 at 01:43
Yes, that particular DML is fingerprinted in a manner that should match any DEDX-derived gamesys and allow automatically protecting against issues common to them. Having T2FMDML loaded is sufficient for it to be applied.
