QFG4 error when wraith in room

[tomasz89]

Exiting the dark one cave and walking in to a room with a wraith (I've tried a few) results in the console appearing with:

ERROR:
parameter 0: 0036:f930 (reference, invalid), should be null, integer
[VM] kAbs[5e]: signature mismatch in method wraith::doit (room 566, script 53, localCall ffffffff)!

[tomasz89]

Wraith just to the east.

[bluegr]

I can't reproduce the crash with this saved game

[tomasz89]

I can reproduce this reliably 100% of the time in any room that contains a wraith.

What further information may I provide to help trace this? Is it a game version mismatch? Is there some other debug back trace information that may aid?

[bluegr]

I tried this again, but I still can't reproduce the bug.

Please tell me the following:

• Is this an English version of the game?
• What sort of audio options are you using?
• Is this a known game variant? I assume you're using the CD version?
• Have you applied any official game patches?
• Have you applied any unofficial game patches? (most likely, the NRS patch)

Please note that the CD version did not have any official patches by Sierra - the ones they provided were for the floppy version.

[tomasz89]

• Yes, it is the English version of the game.
• For audio, the MT-32 emulator.
• Yes the CD/voice version from the QFG4 anthology.
• No, no official patches applied.
• No, no unofficial patches applied it's straight from the anthology CD. I've not applied New Rising Sun's patches as it is generally unneeded in SCUMMVM.

I will try the GOG version shortly as it's probably going to be the most popular version going forwards..

[tomasz89]

GOG version works fine.

[bluegr]

Can you check if the following two files are in the folder of your game, in the version that throws the error:
53.scr
53.hep

If yes, please move them out of the folder and try again

[tomasz89]

Hi,

Spot on. Moving 53.{scr,hep} out of the way, no crash. Moving them back, causes the crash.

[bluegr]

Right. So, you got broken game files. I can't reproduce this issue - I've also tried with the NRS patch. My suggestion is to just remove these two files altogether. They are meant to be a patch for barrow locations, where wraiths pop up, but you shouldn't really need them with ScummVM.

Thus, I'm closing this as invalid.