Wallace and Gromit - frozen!
After I finished trapping the bees with the porridge gun, I went back to the dining room and now I'm frozen! The characters appear to be moving but there's no cursor and none of the keyboard buttongs respond.
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I can send the save game if you wish.
PS. Why does the loader program consume so much of the CPU when starting?
As for the first time, when the bug happened, after controlling Gromit I did more or less the following:
1) Play with the porridge gun a bit
2) Exit the dining room and enter the kitchen
3) Pick up the answering machine
4) Back in the corridor and pick up the items from Wallace's clothes
5) Go upstair and pick up the tennis racket
6) Go out in the garden and use the racket with the gnome
7) Back in the dining room. Use the lever. Use the gun.
8) Trap the bees in the order: tree -> pants -> trash bin
9) After the dialogue the game get autosaved and freeze.
As a side note, when picking up the items from Wallace's clothes, I took the map of the neighbourhood, which I didn't take when controlling Wallace before.
edit: Probably it doesn't matter, but I'm playing in Italian at the moment.
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I did leave the shooting screen and come back (had to exit to give the racket to the gnome), so maybe that's the issue? I did the bees in a different order (tree->trash->pants) than Kentaurus so I doubt that's the problem. I had also taken care of all the other bees first, but it sounds like Kentaurus didn't do that, so that's probably unrelated too.
No idea what order I shot the bees down in, but indeed after completing this part, the game returns to the dining room, with the Major asleep at the porridge blaster and Gromit standing behind him.
I'm expecting to be able to move Gromit, as I can see that the idle animations are still working, as is the sound and music, but none of the controller inputs do anything.
I can't even exit the game probably, so have to give the three fingered solute of Ctrl-Alt-Del.
Everytime I try to reload the game from the same point - I only have 1 savegame, the same happens again, and I have basically given up playing it - as I am unable to.
Any help would be appreciated.
Up to this point I was really enjoying the game aswell, it has to be said.
Just sad that it seemingly broke.
I tried changing renaming the prefs.prop file and that made everything REALLY interesting graphically, but no less unresponsive...
The scoop:
Windows XP SP3
Dell Dimension 8200
Nvidia GeForce FX 5700VE 256 MB
1.5GB RAM
DirectX 9.0c
etc.
I guess we'll wait and see if anyone comes up with a solution!
I would hate to have to run through the game again to get to the same point and hope that it works.
There were a couple of time up to now where I thought that the game had become stuck but it was only temporary. This point in the game,,, totally stuck.
Could somebody provide us with a savegame at that point so we don't have to run through the game again
For the record, the problem is either in the save game file itself, or else it's something to do with the hardware on my machine. I have a dual boot system and I went into Windows Vista (as opposed to XP where I had played and gotten stuck,) but the game is still stuck in the same place using the save file copied from the XP partition...
I noticed that the next chapter has already come out, but I am loathe to download the next installment before I've completed the first...
Is anyone at Telltale listening?! :rolleyes:
so we can't use other saves, nor can we bookmark
I've restarted the game and got to the same spot and it did the exact same thing.
I shot the bee's in a different order and it still happened.
You can bookmark on the 360
Hope this helps fix the problem.
Here is what I did different:
-First of all lower graphics to 1, change hints to never and disable subtitles.
-Do only the things you need to pass through the game. ( You can follow the walkthrough)
-DO NOT pick up the racket in the first chapter; you will take it from bedroom when you need it while the bee invasion.
-Do the gun part as late as you can, after you done with recorder and cheese things.
This one worked for me, I hope this solves your problems too.
I tried the game - and I got through this part fine (the parts in bold I did anyway - and the game was fine with this.)
I just focused on the porridge puzzle at the start of Act 3, I didn't go into the cellar or the town and I don't think I did alot in the Kitchen at all (best to do nothing in the Kitchen)
When my sister played the game, she went in the cellar, the kitchen and parts of the town and her game froze. So I suppose, the game can't deal with so many open puzzles being uncovered - so to anyone still having trouble with this I suggest focusing on the porridge puzzle first.