Game Crashes when stalker gives an artifact to beard Thread - S.M.R.T.E.R. Pripyat mod for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

I am sorry i can not provide a log but it crashes when beard talks to the stalker giving him an artifact so it is probably a sound file problem though also the stalker will not leave at all and this is also a problem. if i can i will post the crash but i cant right now for some reasons

You mean the Stalker who ambushes you at the ship and 'asks' you to give you the artifact? I'll look into it and try to reproduce that crash.
Quick workaround for now: Just don't give hime the artifact (or give it to him and kill him before he reaches Beard), there is no use (in terms of storyline) in giving him the artifact anyway.

Well mostly i think its related to when Beard asks for 3 artifacts and gives you a higher price for them if you can find them for him because when approached a conversation starts between beard and the stalker telling beard he found a good artifact and when beard starts talking it crashes

I'm lost... what mission/artifact are we talking about here? Please provide a log and savegame.

Here is the last line of the log where the error started.

! Missing ogg-comment, file: l:\s.t.a.l.k.e.r. - call of pripyat\gamedata\sounds\weapons\really_no_sound.ogg
compiling shader model_distort
compiling shader particle_alphaonly
! Unknown command: dump_infos
intro_start game_loaded
* MEMORY USAGE: 445287 K
* End of synchronization A[1] R[1]
intro_delete ::update_game_loaded
stack trace:

0023:0593B7ED lua.JIT.1.1.4.dll, lua_yield()
and i had a link for the for the mission but i cannot find it so i will just paste the description of the mission
Kudos to STALKER wiki for the info

"Along with selling the players artifacts, Beard can also give the
player missions to find artifacts he needs, the player will be given a
period of time to find the artifact; if the artifact is not found in
time, another stalker in the Zone will find it and the player will have
the option to buy it off the other stalker or trade a "high-end shooter"
for it before they make it to Skadovsk and give it to Beard.
Alternatively, if the player is an avid anomaly-diver, they can
gather artifacts and return to Beard to ask which artifacts he needs -
he'll pay a hefty fee if the player has it immediately available, and
the player won't have to worry about competition from other Experts. He
will stop asking for artifacts if two of his "artifact squads" are
killed, which is a large downside to killing loners if they find the
artifact you're looking for. He will also warn you about incoming Emission when you are in Zaton.
It should be noted that Beard's artifact hunting missions are only for rare artifacts such as Firefly, Snowflake, Eye, Flame, Bubble, Goldfish and Gravi."
and also another weird thing is that the stalker is frozen in place unless i go up to him and beard where it does not crash when the stalker talks but when beard talks it crashes.

Ok, I see. I have an idea what might cause this, please try this fix attempt Megaupload.com and let me know how it went. (Shouldn't require a new game, just overwrite your existing gamedata folder with the one from this link)

IT worked sort of.... the dialog can be finished but the STALKER just stands there and after like 7 seconds after the conversation it crashes i will get the Crash log to you as soon as i can

If the dialog has already started in your savegame (or you already did artefact missions for beard), it cannot work. You need to load an earlier save.
Also, what Artifacts does Beard request exactly?

I cannot revert to an earilier save unless i want to loose all of the Stash weapons I have gotten (I do not want to do the G36E again) the artifacts he requests are usaully Firefly, Snowflake, Eye, Flame, Bubble, Goldfish though you renamed bubble to balloon right? Well one thing that i just need is the Svarog Detector which is the only thing i need beard for so do you know a console command for it?

So you cannot test wether or not the fix works, cannot provide a log and cannot tell which artifact triggers your crash... Since you're the only one ever reported that kind of problem, I guess I'm gonna stop wasting my time here. xD
And no, I did not rename anything and there are no gameplay changing console commands either.

hmm ok thanks luckily i mostly finished all quest for Beard except theone for the Svarog Detector......well oh well at least i finally got that damn P99.

I have a very similar issue as well

It crashes when I come back to finish the Blood Sucker Lair. The stalker hands Beard "something he found" and beard starts to say "wow, thats something else". Game immediately crashes straight after the "something else".

I tried your fix and id didn't change anything. Any other potential fixes? My save is just before it happened so i can do repeatable tests if you need it.

Just to add, i think the stalker talking to Beard is called "Vobla". I'm not sure if the bug is related to the bloodsucker lair quest or me giving the wheel from the dredge to the stalker (i think vobla).

The Exception Reason:
xrEngine.exe caused ACCESS_VIOLATION in module "G:\Stalker\Call of Pripyat\bin\lua.JIT.1.1.4.dll" at 0023:05C3B7ED, lua_yield()+3485 byte(s)

Edited by: brettyw

Provide a proper log, I can't help you without it... read here on how to report bugs if you don't know how:
Moddb.com

Someone wrote: Expression : !m_error_code
Function : raii_guard::~raii_guard
File : D:\prog_repository\sources\trunk\xrServerEntities\script_storage.cpp
Line : 748
Description : ...r. - call of pripyat\gamedata\scripts\xr_meet.script:630: attempt to index local 'meet' (a nil value)

Thats my Crashlog.The Game Crashes when standing near the stalker that gives the Artefact from the Ship to Beard

106.Bluebird wrote: The Game Crashes when standing near the stalker that gives the Artefact from the Ship to Beard

I'll look into it. For now, killing that stalker before he reaches Beard (or simply not giving him the artefact) will prevent the game from crashing (you don't gain anything from letting him take the artefact from you anyway)

Yeah but i gave it to him accidently... If i knew he would cause a crash he would have felt my Knife ://