Grim closes at two different points early in year one

[bodyofareader]

Hey everyone,

I managed to install and run the German version of Grim Fandango on Windows 7 yesterday.
It started just fine, no issues with the sound or freezing whatsoever.

But.

The game and residualvm simply quit whenever I try:

- to use the hole puncher at Eva's desk
- to climb the rope to the roof in the back alley


This occurs every single time at exactly the same spots.
There appears a warning in the second window of residualvm in the instant before the game closes, but it's gone so fast that I cannot manage to take a proper screenshot.


I never thought it possible, but this is way more frustrating than not being able to play the game at all


Anyone who knows what's up and how I can fix it?

[counting_pine]

The contents of the console window can be found in the residualvm.log. On my computer, that's in C:\Users\Username\AppData\Roaming\ResidualVM\Logs\residualvm.log.

(If you open in Notepad you may not see any linebreaks, so it would be better to use Wordpad or something.)

[giucam]

The kind of bugs and the fact that you're running the german version make it highly probable that you have corrupted game data. If you could run a nigthly build you could check whether the data is fine or not.

[bodyofareader]

Pretty sure the data is not completely flawless.

There were some issues installing the game. I used the German tutorial by ShyGuy on youtube, and every single error that occured in his tutorial occured in my installation process as well. I even bought another German version via amazon, in case my own copy was somehow ruined.



Edit:
Right, it's running now. I went through the comments beneath ShyGuy's tutorial and there he advised someone to cut "data003.lab" out of the game folder until I reach year 2.

Now Manny managed to climb up unto the roof, I'll try Eva's hole puncher later.


Thanks for the other advice guys