NBA Live 08 NLSC 3.8 update crashes

[bomba90]

Game crashes at a beginning of a game after loading.
Crashes both on dynasty and exhibition.
Any ideas?

[Andrew]

I've tested the patch and I'm not experiencing any crashes with the version that has been released. I can't guarantee compatibility with all other patches, so you might need to try a fresh install.

If it's happening on a couple of teams in particular, I can double check but everything should be working fine.

[bomba90]

Obviously, I re-installed the game and installed the new patch. It crashed once since the installation in a game of Chicago at Detroit.
I'm doing a season with chicago and already played both home and away games.

[Andrew]

Looks like there's an issue with the Pistons' court update; that's a shame, it wasn't crashing during my previous tests. Please delete the following files from your sgsm folder:

detr_lightbloom.fsh
detr_lightmap.fsh
detrbbd_refl.ebo
detrbbd_trans.ebo
detrstd.ebo
detrstd.fsh
detrstd_highref.ebo
detrstd_lowref.ebo
detrstd_trans.ebo
detrstd_vram.fsh

[bomba90]

In a game Chicago at Utah the game crashed too, deleted the files of Utah, just like you told me regarding Detroit and the problem was fixed.

[Andrew]

There must be a few high too many hi-res files there, though it's strange they weren't causing crashes before now and for other teams. I'll double check those courts and release new fixes as necessary.

EDIT: Jazz court works fine for me but a few others don't, so I'll put out another fix and repacked version ASAP.

[bomba90]

Same thing that happened with Utah happened with Orlando, I've deleted the files and everything went well. During the game Orlando commited a substitution and the game crashed, don't know which player entered the game.

Andrew, I have to say that i'm happy with the crashes of the game because that's pretty much the only time that I can go back to study, the patch is pretty much a whole new game that keeps me out of my studies.

[Andrew]

I went through all the teams with updated courts yesterday and I believe I've now weeded out all the troublesome files in a repacked version of the rosters. I've also released this fix to clean out those files for those who've already installed them, so you might want to give that a try as a preemptive strike on further crashes.