Missing Ibex Causes Crash

[docu3]

I have recently reinstalled ZT1 the MM/DD expansion.  When I start a freeform game there is a blank tile in the animal adoption menu.  If the cursor scrolls over it the whole screen goes black, then the game crashes and it dumps me to the desktop.  The only error message is the typical MS "Send/Don't Send".  I think I've figured out that the missing animal is the Ibex.

I've uninstalled/reinstallded twice now.  I've also tried cleaning out the registry before reinstalling.  I've tried installing ZT1 without the expansion and I have the same problem.  There are no downloaded additions to the game at this point.  If I open a new project in APE, the Ibex does show up.

I'm running Win 2000 with DirectX 9 or so.

Any thoughts?

[ralph]

I assume you have the orginal game and expensions?

[docu3]

Yep.  Store bought US version.  Original game disc, plus MM/DD expansion (not CC).

[Tasmanian_tiger]

Never heard of this problem.  Doesn't mean no one has.

I know, with usermade animals, that if you do something wrong while making them, going over the icon also crashes the game.  I never had it with an original animal.

Maybe try copying your animals.ztd and animals2.ztd from your cd to where you installed ZT.  Overwriting the files that were installed, I mean.

[Bielski]

Do you have any user made animals installed? Cause I know there is one that causes the Llama to be unnamed.

[docu3]

I tried copying animals.ztd and animals2.ztd from the original ZT disc and replacing the installed files.  The blank tile is still there, but I can select it.  If I click the "info" button, the game crashes again.  It looks like it is the same as the user-created invisibility problem.  I can actually select the empty tile from the animal adoption screen and place an invisible animal into an exhibit.  The game shows some squares for the animals name, but the Ibex is the only thing missing from the adoption menu.

No, I have no user created things installed.  I don't even have any official updates installed.  Currently, I don't even have the expansions installed, just the US version of ZT1.

Is this weird or what?  Any other ideas?

[Penguino]

Hmm, maybe it's the DLL files, or something totally different. I would suggest reinstalling.

[White Fox]

Hm, i once had this problem with the Asian Bear.  It did exactly what u described.  I can't quite remember what i did though  :>< .  You should try reinstalling it, like Penguino said, or you could try mention this to blue fang.  They might have a solution for you.