Fixed Nigel Blythe Bonaire CTD

Ardent storyline, version 4.1 29 August 2017

While playing Nigel Blythe side quest I appointed him a captain of a 6th class ship (brigantine "Siroco") in order to advance the story, but every time I exit map near Bonaire I get a CTD. All generated logs attached.

A date of 29th August has to have come from the final post 7th January fixes archive. Which installer did you run before that archive?

"compile.log" never seems to get as far as loading the storyline. It gets stuck repeatedly saying:

SETTING MUSIC: music_main_menu
PauseAllSounds
ResumeAllSounds

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I don't know what would cause that. The one thing I can suggest is that file "options" sometimes gets corrupted, leading to various types of weirdness, which means any time I encounter weirdness, the first thing I try is deleting "options". Sometimes it works. So, delete "options" - you'll find it in the top level of your game installation folder, not in "PROGRAM" or "RESOURCE". When you next run the game, it will create the file again, and if you changed anything such as controls, difficulty etc., you'll need to change it again.

Grey Roger said:

"compile.log" never seems to get as far as loading the storyline. It gets stuck repeatedly saying:

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Starting ENGINE.exe, opening and closing the Options menu several times, then closing the game again?

Deleting options file didn't change anything. I have used the Beta 4.1 installer from official release thread.

How about this compile? Please look at the end.

I just sailed to another Island before going to Bonaire and it generated like that. Any ideas?

At the end of "compile.log": That's definitely a problem. I ran into something similar while playing the "Jack Sparrow" storyline. The game thinks Nigel Blythe is still part of your party, so he can't be in a separate group.

Go into "PROGRAM\QUESTS". Rename "quests_side.c" to something else, e.g. "quests_side_orig.c". Then put this one in its place.

Load a savegame from before you went to Bonaire, then try going there again and see what happens. I haven't had a chance to test this so can't guarantee that it will work.

It worked, great thanks to you Grey Roger. And I've already given up hope.