Illegal exception when playing Earl Bobby is Looking for His Balls

[paolo]

This might be a problem with the game - I don't know - but it has been reported as an illegal exception to be posted here. See after the message for the context

Illegal exception
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An exception 0xC0000005 occured in ACWIN.EXE at EIP = 0x00402423 ; program pointer is +5, ACI version 2.62.772, gtags (381,794)

AGS cannot continue, this exception was fatal. Please note down the numbers above, remember what you were doing at the time and notify CJ on the Tech forum.

This happened when I used the sugar shaker in my inventory on the molehill.

Now, this may or may not be related to a problem with the game itself: I went to save "Earl Bobby..." and selected a previously saved game to overwrite. The game hung and I had to close the window to exit the game. I restarted the game, loaded the saved game that I wanted to overwrite, used the sugar shaker on the molehill and then got this exception.

Is it possible that the saved game got corrupted and AGS couldn't deal with it?

Edit:

Hm, reading the message about an illegal exception in Al Emmo, it looks like I should be informing the game author... so why then does the illegal exception advise users to post in the technical forum?

Edit 2:

Similar error when using an earlier saved game. I have posted a message in the completed games forum.

Edit by strazer: Please don't double-post, use the "Modify" button to add info to your original post!

[Pumaman]

Unfortunately this game was created with quite an old version of AGS, so it could be a bug that has since been fixed, and it won't be easy for me to determine the cause.

[Le Woltaire]

But I really think it's not so important.

I couldn't reproduce this bug on my system.
One of my testers told me of a similar exception about two weeks ago.
But it only happened once and it had nothing to do with the mole hill.

I already tried to recompile the game to AGS v. 2.71 but I lost too much information in the script.

The game is definately playable and many persons already finished it without problems, so I think it's ok...Just save often and don't overwrite to many savegames, when you don't need to.

And a small hint: You don't need to use the sugar shaker on the molehill...

Sorry for this from my side...

[paolo]

Thanks for the feedback, Le Woltaire.

And a small hint: You don't need to use the sugar shaker on the molehill...

Heh heh, I thought not