Stefan Hueg

I forked the repository, applied the Alcohol fix from NicknineTheEagle to v0.9.0 and built a release here: https://github.com/codengine/SafeDiscShim/releases/tag/v0.9.0_alcohol_fix Have a look if that solves your issue.

> ScummVM did use a similar method in past, but it caused regressions (see https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/1441 ), which was why is was changed to current method. Would be best to double...

I played for roughly half an hour today without issues. Will continue to play with subs and voice enabled and report back.

I tested the game now for four hours and the freeze still happens at the same location in the castle as mentioned in the old bug ticket. I'm a bit...

Thanks @bluegr, do you want to chase this further to make it room/speech specific or shall I give it a try? I noticed another lockup during my playthrough yesterday, which...

@bluegr I tried your fix and I can see that it fires during that scene, but Simon is still frozen in place at the end of the monologue in front...

> FWIW, [Trac#5856](https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/5856) documents another known freeze, if that needs to be tested (a workaround was implemented in commit eb851041edcef20d85f74c95d53e8c280fe8a0ef, but reverted in commit 500a54a5595a3ea7385f4aac173fadd637658dfb because of a regression that's...

> > > FWIW, [Trac#5856](https://bugs.scummvm.org/ticket/5856) documents another known freeze, if that needs to be tested (a workaround was implemented in commit [eb85104](https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/commit/eb851041edcef20d85f74c95d53e8c280fe8a0ef), but reverted in commit [500a54a](https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm/commit/500a54a5595a3ea7385f4aac173fadd637658dfb) because of a...

@bluegr That sounds great! Sure I'll play it through again with speech + subs enabled. Hopefully I can trigger the guard bug somehow. I wouldn't have thought that the wait...

@bluegr I finally have my vacation and can take care about another playthrough now. Just that you know that I haven't forgotten about it :)