killap's FO2 expansion: 'too many items' bug?

[ZSDonny]

I've been a huge fan of Fallout 2 and I decided to do a run again recently. I decided to do it this time with killap's expansion, but not long into the game I've discovered a really frustrating bug.

I managed to wipe out the slaver guild in the Den with very careful turn-taking at level 4. Surprised with my luck, I looted every corpses I find; yielding a lot of 10mm pistols. I headed on to the Vault city after rescuing Vic, but this is where the problem happened: Every time I try to exit the east side of the Den, the game crashes on me regardless of the exit grid I take.

After several retries I looked up my problem on Google. I found something about a bug called 'too many items', saying that the save will get corrupted if there is too many items in one area. I suspected that might be my problem with my the amount of my loots. But then I remembered I have never encountered this problem before on my previous vanilla playthrough. I thought it might be a problem with the expansion, but more information I found on the internet conflicts with this and say that killap's expansion pack has fixed this issue.

I don't know if this is an original bug from the vanilla game or it came with the expansion pack. But it's really annoying that I can't continue this save I have spent hours on.

Is there a solution to this problem?

 

[NovaRain]

AFAIK the "too many items" bug is not related to "normal" items but those with script attached, like holodisks in vanilla, magic-8 ball, hintbook, etc.
Personally I never encounter any problem for wiping out the slaver guild and taking dozens of 10mm pistols with me in both UP and RP.

 

[Drobovik]

I'm suspecting you have saved during combat and reloaded while taking care of the guild? This might be where your issues are coming from.

 

[killap]

The too man items bug is indeed only related to scripts attached to items. The issue you have is something else.

I suggest posting the save game for others to look at. Darek's the man when it comes to this but I don't think he's around right now.

I'm also leaning towards what Drobovik said. We need more info in regards to what you did before the crashing started happening.

 

[ZSDonny]

Here's my saves with the problem.

The latest save is on slot 5 ircc, they're labeled with numbers in-game though.

And yes, I did save a lot of time during the shoot out.

 

[Darek]

If I were around I would probably say to replay it from save slot 061. That save is not corrupt and you only have 4 slavers left to kill.

As for the problem, I don't think it's combat related but to do with releasing the slaves. Most times it seem to work fine but I managed to reproduce it once when I saved (and then loaded it) while they where leaving.

Not sure if all the obj_dude scripts you get from saving and loading a lot plays into it, but I only got it to corrupt my save once out of six tries, so can't say anything really. Will just have to wait for more error reports I guess.

 

[ZSDonny]

Thanks, I'll try that out.