Recently Korax has been crashing with monotonous regularity, on saved games or on a fresh game, always with the same message: W_CacheLumpNum: 18336>-numlumps The number is occasionally slightly different, though always 18xxx. Currently can't seem to play longer than 15-20 minutes before a crash. What can I do to alleviate this?

Addendum: This seems more prevalent when there are several reivers (? those fireball tossing critters who emerge from graves) on screen, particularly if I've just killed one. And the crash will *always* occur if I kill one and, after he falls to the ground, there appears to be a pile of scrap metal where he fell.

The problem could be somehow related to when the engine loads a sprite lump or something, we'll check it out.

With scrap metal you mean some kind of strange sprite that doesn't look right?

[quote="RambOrc":3dj39g97]With scrap metal you mean some kind of strange sprite that doesn't look right? Yes. It seems to be a jumbled pile of silver-grey metal on the ground, possibly made of fragments of the fighters gauntlets. Whenever this appears after I kill anything the game will crash with the numlump message. I'll get a sreenshot, if you like. BTW, the error I get is: W_CacheLumpNum: 18336>=numlumps (=, not -, as in my previous post. Sorry, can't read my own writing sometimes.)

Sorry it's taken me so long to reply, I keep getting distracted by other commitments. Sounds like I cocked up somewhere probably with either fire death sprites or damage skin sprites. Is this in KMod2.8 or the KMod3 beta? I'll try and have a look as quickly as possible. I sure hope there is an easy way of finding the 18336th lump otherwise I'm going to be counting for ages <!-- s:P --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt=":P" title="Razz" /><!-- s:P --> .

It seems it's beyond the number of lumps in the game (hence the text in the error message), maybe that's why it show sprite 0 (the fighter's gauntlets).

We have had this problem in the past, it's a WAD problem (either the original Hexen wad or one of the KMOD wads).

[quote="Moose":2b2hkyuu]Sorry it's taken me so long to reply, I keep getting distracted by other commitments. Sounds like I cocked up somewhere probably with either fire death sprites or damage skin sprites. Is this in KMod2.8 or the KMod3 beta? I'll try and have a look as quickly as possible. I sure hope there is an easy way of finding the 18336th lump otherwise I'm going to be counting for ages <!-- s:P --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt=":P" title="Razz" /><!-- s:P --> . Don't you hate "other commitments"? My employer expects me to be present five days a week ...every week! Thoroughly unreasonable, IMO. I'm using Kmod2.8; though I see from subsequent posts that this is apparently a known bug.

Well, to be honest, I didn't knew much about it, heh! <!-- s:P --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_razz.gif" alt=":P" title="Razz" /><!-- s:P -->