Fallout 2(v1.02) crashing during battles.

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Deevious

First time out of the vault
I don't know why it keeps happening, but I think it has something to do with the perk Bonus Move. I can recreate it for the most part, this is how it seems to happen:

1.) Get into a battle.
2.) Shoot enemies 2 times with a .44 Magnum, then reload(Leaves me with 0 AP, but 2 left with to move)
3.) Save.
4.) Either move, or click Turn.

After my turn is finished, I see a couple NPCs move, or they will shoot at me. After that, the game crashes. If I reload the save, then move, or click Turn again, the same thing happens(It even crashes at the exact same time). Is there a fix for this somewhere? It is annoying having to run one hex, then save and reload until I get to an Exit Grid.


Windows XP Home Edition
Intel P4 3.0 Ghz CPU
1024MB Ram
Geforce FX 5200 (128MB)
Direct X Version 9.0c
 
Here is some even better advice.

Don't save Fallout 2 during combat. This especially goes for during scripted events.
 
You my friend, have run into what we 1337 forum people call a 'bug'.



The origins of the word 'bug' are not quite clear, but what we do know is that it has taken on a steady place in our vocabulary. The word 'bug' turns up in various situations, describing dozens of different things.

Bug is often used in vernacular to refer generally to any small, terrestrial arthropod, sometimes taken to include creatures like snails and slugs as well. Since such insects are often irritating and frustrating (mosquitoes, flies and cockroaches being prime examples of such), this word has also come to refer to something which is irritating or frustrating. For instance, a person might say someone (or a problem) is "bugging" (irritating or frustrating) them.

Derived from these small insects, are small surveillance devices. Microphones, mini-cameras: when a person thinks the room he is in is filled with there kind of devices, he will say the room is 'bugged' (wired).
In gambling jargon, a bug is a small holdout device that can secretly be attached at the underside of the card table for the purpose of cheating. A card cheat will use a bug to conceal extra cards under the table for further use.

As you can now probably derive from yourself, the word 'bug' is most often used to refer to things that annoy us. Small, little things that can make our lives more difficult for us. (There are, of course, exceptions, such as the Volkswagen Beetle (often also called 'Bug') and our dear friend Bugs Bunny.)

That is why, in computer jargon, a deficit within a program is called a 'bug'. It is a small, often almost unnoticeable deficit in the programming language, yet it coud ruin the entire computer program for us.


I hope this answers your question.
 
Also:
Trolle(team leader of NWS) said:
actually Debug referes to old radio sets, where it was a common problem that bugs (flys and stuff) gathred because it was warm. so debuging ment taking out the bugs...
Click to expand...
 
And even moreso: bugs tended to cause a lot of technical problems with the first computers created with vacuum tubes.
It isn't entirely clear where the word 'bug' in computer usage stems from, really.
 
I went through the procedure described in the first post and nothing strange happened, so either that's not the cause or it's simply a freak bug. You could always use Falche to exchange Bonus Move for another level 6 perk if not being able to save during combat bugs you a lot.
 
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