Possible bug in Screamer?

Hi. Is anyone else having problems with Screamer (apart from the fact that it's a bit crap)? On the track with the ships at the harbor and the moving cranes, every time I drive past the cranes the game crashes and prints a load of what appears to me to be garbage on the screen. It contains phrases such as "unrelocated crash address" and loads of numbers in vertical columns. I've spoken to VIE, and they recommended making a boot disk...yeah, thanks guys, like I never thought of that... -- ******************************************************************** * Paul L. Finnemore, Apprentice Veterinarian * * "Five tablets and a ten minute consultation. That's 50 please." * ********************************************************************

Yes, I had some problems with it crashing, but it appeared to be more random than you say. Perhaps it was at that track - I can't remember. I only borrowed it from a friend, so can't check it out. Steve.

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>Subject: Possible bug in Screamer? >Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 12:06:19 GMT >Hi. >Is anyone else having problems with Screamer (apart from the fact that >it's a bit crap)? >On the track with the ships at the harbor and the moving cranes, every >time I drive past the cranes the game crashes and prints a load of what >appears to me to be garbage on the screen. It contains phrases such as >"unrelocated crash address" and loads of numbers in vertical columns. >I've spoken to VIE, and they recommended making a boot disk...yeah, >thanks guys, like I never thought of that... >-- >******************************************************************** >* Paul L. Finnemore, Apprentice Veterinarian * >* "Five tablets and a ten minute consultation. That's 50 please." * >********************************************************************

Mine runs great, but what's up with the braking action????? Jive

I have had a similiar problem and I think if you run Univbe51.exe before you begin Screamer you will find that it will run fine. I am not a rocket scientist but it looks like some kind of conflict with certain video cards.

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>>Subject: Possible bug in Screamer? >>Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 12:06:19 GMT >>Hi. >>Is anyone else having problems with Screamer (apart from the fact that >>it's a bit crap)? >>On the track with the ships at the harbor and the moving cranes, every >>time I drive past the cranes the game crashes and prints a load of what >>appears to me to be garbage on the screen. It contains phrases such as >>"unrelocated crash address" and loads of numbers in vertical columns. >>I've spoken to VIE, and they recommended making a boot disk...yeah, >>thanks guys, like I never thought of that... >>-- >>******************************************************************** >>* Paul L. Finnemore, Apprentice Veterinarian * >>* "Five tablets and a ten minute consultation. That's 50 please." * >>******************************************************************** >Mine runs great, but what's up with the braking action????? >Jive

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>Hi. >Is anyone else having problems with Screamer (apart from the fact that >it's a bit crap)? >On the track with the ships at the harbor and the moving cranes, every >time I drive past the cranes the game crashes and prints a load of what >appears to me to be garbage on the screen. It contains phrases such as >"unrelocated crash address" and loads of numbers in vertical columns. >I've spoken to VIE, and they recommended making a boot disk...yeah, >thanks guys, like I never thought of that... >-- >******************************************************************** >* Paul L. Finnemore, Apprentice Veterinarian * >* "Five tablets and a ten minute consultation. That's 50 please." * >********************************************************************

No, I get that on Lake Valley as I pass the overhead cable car. -- Tony Clixby - Bebington - Wirral - UK

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> Hi. > Is anyone else having problems with Screamer (apart from the fact that > it's a bit crap)? > On the track with the ships at the harbor and the moving cranes, every > time I drive past the cranes the game crashes and prints a load of what > appears to me to be garbage on the screen. It contains phrases such as > "unrelocated crash address" and loads of numbers in vertical columns. > I've spoken to VIE, and they recommended making a boot disk...yeah, > thanks guys, like I never thought of that... > -- > ******************************************************************** > * Paul L. Finnemore, Apprentice Veterinarian * > * "Five tablets and a ten minute consultation. That's 50 please." * > ********************************************************************

Hmmm. I've played it on a Gateway 2000 8Mb 75Mhz Pentium, ATI card...etc and it is fine - no probs on that track/area. Is your comment about it being ***because of the crashing or the actual game itself? Personnaly I love it, even though I've only played it in VGA. The speed's fine, the gameplay's good, the cars handle properly, the soundtrack *rocks*.... Just remember programmers cannot test their code on every concievable system configuration - maybe you're just unlucky with your set-up. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | BSc Computer Science | life-forms!" - Data from | | University of Exeter, UK | Star Trek : Generations | ----------------------------------------------------------------------