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Penumbra Overture crashs when activating the artifact in the office room. When activating it, the "light" effect shows until the screen is totally white, then it crashes. Console output:

Code:
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::length_error'

  what():  basic_string::resize

/home/.games/penumbra_overture/PenumbraOverture/penumbra: Zeile 9:  5699 Abgebrochen             ./penumbra.bin "$@"

Penumbra: Overture exited unexpectedly, please check

/home/scrawl/.frictionalgames/Penumbra/Overture/hpl.log

for any error messages

Also try running

ulimit -c unlimited

And re-running Penumbra and try and recreate the error

then submit the generated core file or stack trace

Last lines of the log file:

Code:
Loading collada for 'maps/level01_05_office.dae' took: 405 ms

WARNING: Parent 'group3' couldn't be found! Failed to attach 'artefact_pointLight1' to 'artefact'.Attaching directly to mesh.

ERROR: Entity file 'NAME_item.ent' was not found!

WARNING: Couldn't find start position 'link01'

Loading map 'level01_05_office.dae' took: 1848 ms

System info: Linux 2.6.30, XServer 1.6.3, NVidia 7600 GS video card with 190.153 Nvidia driver
Penumbra Overture version from the humble indie bundle[/code]

Any chance you are running the game with german subtitles?

Yes, I'm running with german subtitles, but what has it to do with the crash?

Using another language than English is unsupported, so it is on a if it works it works if it doesn't it doesn't basis. You can try this thread tip http://www.frictionalgames.com/forum/thr...l#pid25070 and see if that helps!

Thanks, it helped, though I had to start a new game.

I'd appreciate if this can be fixed in the engine.

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jens

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jens

scrawl