Crash bug fighting Khim (3.5.0)

[wobbly]

I'm pretty sure it's him doing it, At least it seems like I wander round the level all I like as long as I don't go near him. If he wakes however with-in 1 to 20 turns or so the game crashes. You'll be able to see him if you move down the corridor to the left on the save.

[Nick]

There's a known bug in the monster list where a special character in the monster's name hits the window boundary. To test, resize or just close the monster list window, and see if it still happens.

[wobbly]

Tried this just now with the monster list window closed, still crashed the moment Khim woke up.

Edit: Windows 7 (Nvidia). I'm not certain it's not something up on my end with the OS, as I've been getting intermittent BSOD, but this crash to the desktop is not something it would usually do.

[PowerWyrm]

Tried this just now with the monster list window closed, still crashed the moment Khim woke up.

Edit: Windows 7 (Nvidia). I'm not certain it's not something up on my end with the OS, as I've been getting intermittent BSOD, but this crash to the desktop is not something it would usually do.

The bug will happen even if the window is closed, because the code doesn't check whether the window is visible or not. Check again, but this time disable the monster list with the '=' menu.

[wobbly]

Thanks that did in fact work. Odd that it's not causing a crash when it displays his name in the window, as far as I can tell it wasn't crashing till he tried casting a spell.

[Nick]

Thanks that did in fact work. Odd that it's not causing a crash when it displays his name in the window, as far as I can tell it wasn't crashing till he tried casting a spell.

I think the display is different for sleeping and awake monsters - so it probably crashed when he woke up and the game tried to write his name into the awake section. Or else I'm wrong again

[Carnivean]

I thought it was meant to be a length bug, so dropping the (asleep) from the end of the name might be the trigger.

So the solution then is to one shot him in his sleep.

[Derakon]

If I recall correctly, the bug is due to accented names, specifically the game failing to correctly count the number of characters in the name when it has accents in it. Adding/removing non-accented characters from the end of the name shouldn't make a difference, I think.

[wobbly]

Thing is I'm wearing a helm of telepathy, so I can watch him awake & moving from out of sight just fine.

Awake & out of Los is ok.
Asleep & within Los is ok.
Sometimes the crash is immediate, sometimes it takes several rounds.
I don't ever see him cast, no matter how many turns before the crash
Closing the monster list from the = menu fixes the problem

[MattB]

I suspect it might be that as you, and he, move around, the string that says where he is changes until it collides exactly with the odd 'i' in his name, then boom.

I've said this before, but surely the easy fix is to change Mi'm (accented) to Mim (unaccented).