Second of all, when I ever change the operating system option to windows on ScummVM, ITE crashes at start up (Even though it is the windows version) and I got this on the black screen
Can someone help me with this?Two Problems with ITE
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Two Problems with ITE
Hey all, I'm sort of a newbie here at the scummVM site and I need a little help with a problem for Inherit the Earth. The first problem is that when ever I get to the round room in the rats cave. When I exit either doorway the game crashes. I need a little help in figuring out how to fix that.
Second of all, when I ever change the operating system option to windows on ScummVM, ITE crashes at start up (Even though it is the windows version) and I got this on the black screen Can someone help me with this?
Second of all, when I ever change the operating system option to windows on ScummVM, ITE crashes at start up (Even though it is the windows version) and I got this on the black screen
Can someone help me with this?-
eriktorbjorn
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Re: Two Problems with ITE
I can reproduce that. Must be a regression since 0.10. I've committed a fix for it, but I'm afraid the only thing you can do is use the development version of ScummVM, wait for 0.11.1, or use 0.10 for this particular game.WesFox13 wrote:Hey all, I'm sort of a newbie here at the scummVM site and I need a little help with a problem for Inherit the Earth. The first problem is that when ever I get to the round room in the rats cave. When I exit either doorway the game crashes. I need a little help in figuring out how to fix that.
I'm not familiar with how the game detection works here, but I think the correct answer is, "Don't do that, then!". My guess is that when you change the platform setting to "Windows", you force it to look for only the versions of the game that ScummVM itself identifies as Windows versions.WesFox13 wrote: Second of all, when I ever change the operating system option to windows on ScummVM, ITE crashes at start up (Even though it is the windows version) and I got this on the black screen
The problem with the round room in the rats cave is indeed a regression, and as noone completed this game for the 0.11.0 version, we weren't aware of it 
It should be working now with eriktorbjorn's commit.
As for the second part: the Windows, Linux and DOS version of ITE all use the same data files, with the only difference being in the executables themselves. It's not possible to reliably distinguish the version among all those three anymore, plus there is no point in doing so, so the DOS version is used for all three. However, you can clearly see from the game description itself that it refers to ALL three versions. If you change the operating system manually, there is no appropriate game detection entry, so it tells you it can't find the game. Just leave it to the default DOS setting, there isn't going to be any difference (in this particular case) if you change it manually anyway.
It should be working now with eriktorbjorn's commit.As for the second part: the Windows, Linux and DOS version of ITE all use the same data files, with the only difference being in the executables themselves. It's not possible to reliably distinguish the version among all those three anymore, plus there is no point in doing so, so the DOS version is used for all three. However, you can clearly see from the game description itself that it refers to ALL three versions. If you change the operating system manually, there is no appropriate game detection entry, so it tells you it can't find the game. Just leave it to the default DOS setting, there isn't going to be any difference (in this particular case) if you change it manually anyway.