Recent content by merenbach

Long ago, before I knew that I could politely "shove" party and some non-party NPCs, and before I knew the "wait ten minutes" trick (to trigger random walking/running), I reloaded my game to an earlier save after I got stuck (surrounded) in the entryway to Renesco's. :oops:

Per's guide has an answer that may help:

Just added a typo (underlined right here) to the wiki when talking to Bishop after delivering Moore's briefcase--"ol' Tomcat Moore can't seem to step off his soapbox long enough to actually to do any legwork." Edit: Added another New Reno typo in Eldridge's floating text when going back to...

killap, just added to the bug wiki a curious issue in Broken Hills: using the detonator device from Jacob shows the message from Anna's diary and confers 100xp upon the player. Edit: It seems that any "usable from inventory" items do this when Anna's Diary is also in inventory. This only...

Just posted two minor typos (one of which may not even be a typo) to the wiki. You know my tendencies by now. :look: One is a random encounter with save game, where a model is referred to on hover as "scared traveler"--wondering if it should be "scarred traveler" in line with the...

Thank you, killap and contributors! :notworthy: I wonder if we'll see a bunch of folks naming their next Fallout 2 player characters after you... uh, not that I'm planning to do that, of course...

To me (again, operating in a vacuum here) that almost sounds as though the relevant script is being called twice. The first time it's ignored with your fix because the map's not yet ready, and the second time it's loading like any other map.

@killap, without knowledge of the scripts here I'm more or less stabbing in the dark. Is it possible that the check for is_map_loaded has the side effect of ensuring the map gets loaded, or maybe setting some other variables, in the case of the Kaga encounter? Since you say you do...

Where at the SAD are the savegames that are corrupted? Are these saves made during combat?

Now I remember! Heh--the cutscene with the floating text. Not sure where those are kept. I do believe it was that way in Vanilla, though. The phrase "mind your own business" makes more sense than "mind your own affair" for telling someone casually to go away, but I think Horrigan says...

Ah! I did indeed miss that. I apologize for the noise. (Maybe some Linux player will benefit, at the very least. Heh.)

Looking through my dialog (data/Text/English/Dialog), I see the fragment "mind your own business" in the Dunton and Metzger dialog. I can't find "mind your own affair" in this directory. Whose dialog changed? The word "sonuvabitch" does indeed show up a lot in the dialog. I don't feel as...

@Arthandas I don't know if you're using Linux, but here goes: I'm using Wine on Debian Linux and I noticed the same thing when using the generic (open-source) Radeon graphics card driver. When I installed the proprietary ATI driver, the cursor lag went away immediately. I'm playing on...

@killap, I use Debian "Wheezy" (with Linux kernel 3.2.0, if it's of any use) and Wine (Windows XP mode) with a GoG install of Fallout 2 and I'm not seeing any immediate negative impact when I enable either the ProcessorIdle in ddraw.ini *or* the CPU_USAGE_FIX in f2_res.ini. (I'm not seeing any...