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The Longest Journey/Dreamfall seriesCrash on entering Police Station(53 posts)(53 posts)
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Posted February 24, 2016
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LynXsh: Am I the only one who gets scrapped cops models after replacing the 01.xarc?
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a0chptes: OK. I tried replacing the 01.arc file and I still crash. And I have tried all of the other suggestions in this thread. I just downloaded this game a couple of weeks ago, so it should be working, but I cannot get past the police station. Please suggest something that may work for me. I am running Windows 7-64 bit. Thanks.
I don't have any issues with these settings (attached).
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Posted April 30, 2016
I have the same problem. Crash in the police station. I have windows 10. (have tried many "things" ) It will not work!! Can someone help?
Posted April 30, 2016
I also followed the suggestion of replacing 01.xarc with the file linked by a poster on the previous page and it worked perfectly. Win 10 x64.
Posted May 10, 2016
To add my experience:

for me, the game was crashing on every video cutscene. NO GAME SETTING solved anything (tried all of them, as per countless advices on the forums).

I found two solutions that worked:

1. Running a program called CPU burn-in in the background. You do this so as to set it to run for several hours and you also set it to low priority in task manager, so that it doesn't actually compete with the game for CPU. The game will have priority.

2. Going to BIOS settings and setting the machine to only use 1 CPU core. Also, disable hyperthreading (if you have it). I also disabled Intel speedstep IIRC. In other words, disable all but one core and features that dynamically change CPU frequency.

I settled for the BIOS setting, so as to not waste electricity with CPU burn-in. Note, however, that entering the police station always crashed nevertheless. The police station required CPU burn-in to also run. Then it never crashed.

So, for a complete solution, I guess you would use both. To conserve electricity, only use CPU burn-in for entering the police station.
Posted June 20, 2016
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darxide: I can't fix this issue on my end. I've already got Single Buffer forced to fix other issues and I can't set the game to Window 95 compatibility mode because my entire system locks up when I start the game and I have to pull the plug.

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Thanks GOG.com support, this fix worked for me:

Please go to the game's directory, default:
C:\GOG Games\The Longest Journey\32\01
and replace the 01.Xarc file with the one from here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106372714/01.Xarc
the link is not working for me, and all other "solutions" also not worked. Can anybody reupload the file ? (and nope even now, the main download is wrong)
Posted June 23, 2016
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darxide: I can't fix this issue on my end. I've already got Single Buffer forced to fix other issues and I can't set the game to Window 95 compatibility mode because my entire system locks up when I start the game and I have to pull the plug.

Edit:
Thanks GOG.com support, this fix worked for me:

Please go to the game's directory, default:
C:\GOG Games\The Longest Journey\32\01
and replace the 01.Xarc file with the one from here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106372714/01.Xarc
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MCenderdragon: the link is not working for me, and all other "solutions" also not worked. Can anybody reupload the file ? (and nope even now, the main download is wrong)
The link provided above does not work on the FireFox in my case but it works on Microsoft Edge.
Try a different web browser.
Posted June 24, 2016
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MCenderdragon: the link is not working for me, and all other "solutions" also not worked. Can anybody reupload the file ? (and nope even now, the main download is wrong)
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Cycu93: The link provided above does not work on the FireFox in my case but it works on Microsoft Edge.
Try a different web browser.
I tried another Browser it did not work, a friend of mine tried (with firefox) and it worked. Anyways I get the patch and The Longest Journey is working again. (after I limited the CPU)
Post edited June 24, 2016 by MCenderdragon
Posted July 30, 2016
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tanstaafl: OK, the game has been working fine but I suddenly get a crash when I attempt to enter the Police Station in chapter 3. ...
Anyone have any ideas?
For me the solution was really simple:

I started the game again, opened Task Manager, moved to the game's process (something obscure like game32.exe), set the process affinity to one CPU core only, then loaded the latest save game and the scene worked completely normally. No hassle with files or BIOS.

I suspect that this may not work for everyone though, but it's definetily the most simple thing to try first.
( I was running Win 7 at the time. Intel i7 2600k and Radeon 5870.)
Post edited July 30, 2016 by arsmagna
Posted October 09, 2016
None of these help me. It keeps crashing at the same point. Every. Single. Time. It's sad that such a cult classic never got the attention to get fixed. /disappointed
Posted November 06, 2016
Ran into the same problem today. Replacing the Xarx-file worked. Like someone said downloading the file doesn't work with Firefox, I had to use Microsoft Edge.
I also made the changes in preferences.ini and ran in Windows 95 mode. Not sure if that was necessary though
Posted November 21, 2016
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MCenderdragon: the link is not working for me, and all other "solutions" also not worked. Can anybody reupload the file ? (and nope even now, the main download is wrong)
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Cycu93: The link provided above does not work on the FireFox in my case but it works on Microsoft Edge.
Try a different web browser.
This solved it for me too, without changing anything else.
However, the link works fine in Firefox, you just have to right-click and select "save link as".
Posted April 06, 2017
can anyone re upload this file please?
Posted April 11, 2017
Running on Win10 64-bit
I've tried EVERYTHING and nothing worked for me. The one thing that "fixed" it for me was enabling the time skip feature in the game settings. When I was on the screen with the crashed shuttle, I clicked on the stairs to get inside the police station and I just held down the ESC button. It skipped the faulty cutscene too quickly for it to crash the game. I saved after that and it was all good!
Posted April 13, 2017
I am getting a message saying the file is not longer on the site for the Xarc file. I think it is plain old gone,nothing to do with which browser you are using. Any alterantive links?
Posted June 08, 2017
I uploaded xarc file to google drive: 01.xarc
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