QFG5 crashing

[rmcin329]

Well I decided to pick up where i'd left off before, on this game today. I managed to get in a couple of hours worth of grinding with no issues whatsoever. But just all of a sudden the game is now crashing after about 1-2min of wandering on the world map. I think it is crashing when trying to go into a random encounter, as sometimes i hear the sound for getting into one(sometimes not) just before it crashes. The game is already patched to 1.2, and has never given me this sort of trouble in the past. Thoughts as to what might be going wrong here? OS is Win7 professional 64 bit, and I am running the game in windows 95 compatability mode. Changing compatability modes doesnt help.

[Collector]

Did you use the installer from here?

[rmcin329]

No, however I did just uninstall the game, than reinstall with the installer from here, after setting aside my saves. Now when i load up my newest save file it plays the sound for a random encounter but does not actually put me into one. If i load up an older save, than i can wander the map for extended periods of time and never even hear the sound for a random encounter play at all.

[Collector]

Sometimes saves from an unpatched game can carry over problems into the patched game.

[rmcin329]

Ah well i suppose if nothing else i can start entirely from scratch. Though having to do that will probably put me off playing this game for awhile

[Collector]

Understandable.

[rmcin329]

do i need to bother with the win2k patch, or was that included in the new installer?(i grabbed the one for 64 bit systems)

[Collector]

All patching is done by the installer. In fact, trying to apply any of the patches will cause problems. The Win2k patch would not work and the 1.3 patch would overwrite files that should not be overwritten. You would loose the CD-less game play and the dragon breath crash fix.

[rmcin329]

Just out of curiosity, can a hybrid class(say a fighter who learned magic, or a thief) create a wizard staff or learn thermonuclear blast?

[Collector]

Can't say about the staff, but I believe that a paladin can do the thermonuclear blast.