Game is crashing

[bakaranoryu]

Hey guys,

as you can see in the title, my game is crashing.

I did the following:
- Install the game
- Install the patch for the right version (1.0.0.1 -> 1.1.0.9)
- Install the English patch from the FigliDiGaucci-forums for the 1.1.0.9 version of the game

As you can see, it SHOULD run. And so it did yesterday! I was overjoyed. I played the game until I was in the grana-vallis mountains. From the save-point I went: North, killed the "bees", went up ONCE, went east, killed a few more "bees" and went south. There should be now this open area outside the mountain, where those "star shooter" thingys are (those you can only damage when they throw their star). And if you jump down again and head east, there is a way back in again, but that was just an empty room. So I went outside again and noticed, that directly to the left side of the entrance into that empty room, there is somewhat a small "hole" "carved" into the wall. I decided to jump into it and got stuck. I wasn't able to get out of it, so I decided to alt+F4-exit the game.
Now, I am starting it and normally it just skips the opening video and gets directly to the main menu. This time allthough, it still trys to skip the opening video, but instead of coming to the menu, a windows-error pops up and says "YS6 isn't working anymore" and the only option I have left is to close the game.

I already tried to re-install the game. But as soon as I apply the patch, without the English patch!, it just crashes. I can't figure out why....

I use Win7.

Any suggestions?

Thanks and best reguards

Ryu

[bakaranoryu]

Ok, so I kind of fixed it myself.

The patch has a huge problem, when it comes to playing without a sounddriver.
Now that sounds weird. "How can you have not a sound driver?". I have User-Account on my Laptop only for working. And somehow, there is no sounddriver. I can use sounds, but I have to activate the driver through my main User-Account.

Sounds activated -> Game runs perfectly with all patches.

still wondering, why they did this in a patch. Who cares if someone is playing the game with sounds or without it?^^.

[zeomare]

funny i had a similar problem with the unpatched version my years back my sound card was outdated so it kept slowing the game down and crashing once i disconnected the card the game had no sound but it ran perfectly with no frame rate issues and crashes what so ever (however no awesome JDK music either). I am glad you got it working on your own i hope you enjoy the game i am sorry we were not to much help to a fellow Ys fan

chris

[bakaranoryu]

no problem. I mean, who would have guessed, that it's the sounddriver?
I never would have guessed it, if I had the problem on a desktop computer with only one user-account.