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Anyone ever get this error when picking up an item that they left on the
ground a long time ago? The first time it was some Orcish armor I didn't
have room for but wanted to come back and retrieve later (back when I really
needed the money.) The second time, it was a Racer Plume, because I'd
killed a Cliff Racer right on the Mudcrab Merchant's island, and their
"bodies" are huge, and take precedence over all other items and characters
over a wide area. I disposed of the corpse to get it out of the way, but
didn't really want the Racer Plume, so I left it there. In each case, when
I went to pick up the item, the game gave me a "Bad Memory Pointer",
auto-saved my game to the Restore file, and then rebooted the computer. I
can't reload the Restored game, it comes up with all sorts of error
messages, and if I tell it to ignore them, it just crashes. I think it may
be caused by the fact that in both these cases, I dropped the item directly
from corpse to ground, without ever putting it in my inventory first. But
I've done that plenty of times without any problem. It may be that in
combination with the fact that it was a very long time later that I tried to
pick the items up again. Either way, these items seem to be permently on
the ground, as I can never pick them up without crashing the game.
(Funny thing about those Cliff Racers - as hard as they seem to be to target
when alive, they're almost impossible NOT to target after you've killed
them. As annoying in death as they are in life, I guess...)
Anyone ever get this error when picking up an item that they left on the
ground a long time ago? The first time it was some Orcish armor I didn't
have room for but wanted to come back and retrieve later (back when I really
needed the money.) The second time, it was a Racer Plume, because I'd
killed a Cliff Racer right on the Mudcrab Merchant's island, and their
"bodies" are huge, and take precedence over all other items and characters
over a wide area. I disposed of the corpse to get it out of the way, but
didn't really want the Racer Plume, so I left it there. In each case, when
I went to pick up the item, the game gave me a "Bad Memory Pointer",
auto-saved my game to the Restore file, and then rebooted the computer. I
can't reload the Restored game, it comes up with all sorts of error
messages, and if I tell it to ignore them, it just crashes. I think it may
be caused by the fact that in both these cases, I dropped the item directly
from corpse to ground, without ever putting it in my inventory first. But
I've done that plenty of times without any problem. It may be that in
combination with the fact that it was a very long time later that I tried to
pick the items up again. Either way, these items seem to be permently on
the ground, as I can never pick them up without crashing the game.
(Funny thing about those Cliff Racers - as hard as they seem to be to target
when alive, they're almost impossible NOT to target after you've killed
them. As annoying in death as they are in life, I guess...)