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EV no longer works?

Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 1:01 am
by TheoNeanDonly
When I try to load Escape Velocity, either Basilisk crashes or it hangs indefinitely. The strange thing was that I changed nothing since it last worked, so I'm not sure how to fix it. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

The details to this point:
I had installed Basilisk according to the great instructions at http://www.emaculation.com/doku.php/basilisk_ii_setup, and switched to the 20-02-2015 version at http://www.emaculation.com/forum/viewto ... f=6&t=5282. I even successfully installed and Cythera and Escape Velocity. I successfully loaded Escape Velocity (EV) and quit without making a new game, then loaded Cythera and played until I tried to initiate a conversation at which point Basilisk crashed. I then successfully loaded Basilisk and EV a second time, made a new EV game and played a little, and then exited EV (not Basilisk). When I tried to load EV again a little while later, Basilisk just hung with the windows kind of grayed out. I killed Basilisk from the Windows system manager, reloaded it fine, but when trying to load EV it either crashes or hangs.

I confirmed that I can still load and play Cythera, but haven't been able to get to the EV load screen again. I've since tried (with no luck):
Reinstalling EV
Updating the OS to 7.5.5
Random suggestions from web searches:
* Changing colors from millions to 256
* Disabling and re-enabling jit in the prefs file

I'm feeling a bit out of ideas, other than redoing Basilisk totally from scratch. Thoughts?

Re: EV no longer works?

Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2017 5:07 am
by ClockWise
Have you tried using this slightly older version of Basilisk II:

http://emaculation.com/doku.php/basilisk_142_setup

I played many hours of Escape Velocity using it, back in the day.

Re: EV no longer works?

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 2:04 am
by TheoNeanDonly
Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't tried the 142 build.

I ended up redoing the 20-02-2015 Basilisk from scratch and it's been working for several days now, so that's good. For others that might run into this problem, I didn't install Cythera in this one; this is the only difference on my end, though I don't see why it would be significant.

Re: EV no longer works?

Posted: Sat Feb 25, 2017 1:06 pm
by ClockWise
Glad to hear that it works.

Remember that Escape Velocity 3 was released for Windows, and you can play the original game's scenario within it as a free download. I think.