Crash after end of first segment

[CyberBotX]

I've been experiencing a crash right at the end of the first segment of the game, when I tell Rosa to jump off the ship. The crash is as follows:

An error has occurred. Please contact the game author for support, as this is likely to be an error in game logic or script and not a bug in AGS engine.
(ACI version 3.5.1.13)

in "room8.asc", line 16

Error: Character.Loop: invalid loop number for this view

It comes up when the screen goes black after I take my action. I've already attempted to run through the game a few times up to this point, I've tried verifying the files, I've tried a suggestion that was mentioned on the Wadjet Eye Games forum to run the game as Administrator (I didn't think that one would work anyways, though), I've tried to uninstall and then reinstall the game, I've tried going offline in Steam itself, I've even tried to disable the Steam in-game overlay entirely. Not a single one of these allowed the game to progress past the crash point.

Just before the first time it crashed, I did see the achievement popups for Geronimo and Bullet Dodger, but I suspect achievements might not be the problem if it happened when I was offline in Steam. If it helps, I also have a save file just before the crash.

I did see that someone else had posted about this crash on the Wadjet Eye Games forum 11 years ago. I necroposted there, but I kinda doubt it will get noticed because their forum seems to be effectively dead (almost every subforum has been inactive since 2020).

[James Spanos]

This is a scripting issue!

Do you have a savegame, that reproduces this bug? I'd love to squash it!
Your savegames can be found at Users/Your Username/Saved Games/Blackwell Deception

You can send them at thanaspanos at gmail.com or use a dropbox link!

[CyberBotX]

I've just sent you an email with 2 save files, one where Joey was shot once and the other where Joey was show twice. Hopefully you can reproduce the bug, and thanks in advance!

[CyberBotX]

Following up on the email I got back from James, it turns out that the issue is because I had the walk speed set to max and that changes the game speed too, I changed the walk speed back to the default and now the game does not crash at that point.

[+ Danielle + Busy but active]

Originally posted by CyberBotX:

Following up on the email I got back from James, it turns out that the issue is because I had the walk speed set to max and that changes the game speed too, I changed the walk speed back to the default and now the game does not crash at that point.

Thats good to know i set it three quarters of the way. Its funny how a resolution or the walk speed can break old games its also interesting to know why a problem persists. If i ever run into any bugs with these games i will be sure to share. So far i have had a smooth run with these games.