First: I'm glad that game issues are starting to be addressed. Thank you!
Second: I've found some type of massive memory issue on Intel integrated hardware (doesn't do it on my primary system with NV GPU). Here is a link and picture of task manager.
Third: I'm getting the audio stuttering while spell casting. Using Realtek integrated.
Lastly: I also noticed an issue that causes severe slowdown, even on a high end system. What happened was I equipped Minsc with the berzerker 2HS to "experiment", walked into the bar where Volo is, and starting cleaning house. When several commoners left the building and bunched up outside while fleeing, the game starts hitching and lagging very hard. It does not do this when I'm playing normally.
(No fewer-monsters-are-spawning-in-the-game bug fix? No Multiplayer-freezing-because-the-advertised-but-not-included-new-movies fix included? No fix-for-characters-not-doing-what-you-told-to-them, AI-overrides-the-orders-included? These 3 bug was the most important for me. Hoping for the new patch then.)
The fewer monsters is likely due to the difficulty setting. I'd suggest a higher setting. We're working on the movies issue. The characters not doing what you told them is likely related to running with the AI on, so feel free to click the AI button (looks like a lantern on the lower right) If I am incorrect, please give us a little more info to go from. The best would be an breakdown on a few cases, listing expected behaviour and observed behaviour.
The characters not doing what you told them is likely related to running with the AI on, so feel free to click the AI button (looks like a lantern on the lower right
You can make a backup of your entire games folder. Just copy the whole thing somewhere else and if the patch breaks something for you, you can always overwrite with your backup.
Remember also to make a copy of your save games and ini files etc. They should be located in a Beamdog folder in your "My Documents" folder.
It's not downloading yet, it's still "getting download info", so I can't stop it. Well, I guess I'll wait a little more and if it doesn't change I'll close the window roughly and I'll try again tomorrow Anyway thanks for the help @Varyahen
any reason to update if i had no crashes/problems with starting the games before? im afraid of bugs after the update
Lots of scripting bugs have been fixed too. Just make a backup copy of all game files (766 is the name i think). Then just launch the upgrade. If you think it is worse, recover from the backup.
Since this patch I can finally start the game, it doesn't look great on my graphics card, but it's great to see it in action, stupid ATI and lack of support for opengl in legacy drivers....
Now to wait till my main card comes back from the repairs.
(No fewer-monsters-are-spawning-in-the-game bug fix? No Multiplayer-freezing-because-the-advertised-but-not-included-new-movies fix included? No fix-for-characters-not-doing-what-you-told-to-them, AI-overrides-the-orders-included? These 3 bug was the most important for me. Hoping for the new patch then.)
The fewer monsters is likely due to the difficulty setting. I'd suggest a higher setting. We're working on the movies issue. The characters not doing what you told them is likely related to running with the AI on, so feel free to click the AI button (looks like a lantern on the lower right) If I am incorrect, please give us a little more info to go from. The best would be an breakdown on a few cases, listing expected behaviour and observed behaviour.
Best, -Trent
Thanks for answering me. I sent you a mail regarding this, and to Nathan too yesterday. It has the number of #1925. The best topic about few monsters is here: http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/10462/fewer-enemies-in-bgee/p1 In the mail I sent to You there is a list with my reasonings for both of my main themes: old movies and few monsters in the random monster groups. If the mail is lost in the huge load I resend it to You again. Please read the above mentioned topic about the monsters. The bug is not about choosing another difficulty. Thanks again for your answer.
I just wanted to say thanks, finally I've been able to play the game with my own character. I'm sure this week's been rough for the developers and it's good to see they're getting the hang of the issues the game has. I hope they keep up with the good work and they make even better this version of the game.
Dear @TrentOster, I sent a mail to You with the Subject: "Mr. Trent: What is the problem with the monster spawning? - Please find my answer here." Thank You again.
Since this update my journal entries are missing. Hitting "J" only reveals the "Important Events" quest on the prologue and chapters 1..3 pages in the "Quests" and "Done Quests" sections.
I'm playing the game in german and switching to english fixes the issue. It would seem that the problem lies within the "Updates to English, French, German text".
EDIT: Entries are missing again. Switching between german and english does not help, nor does loading different savegames.
I did 1 update today, in the evening about an hour ago. Afterward, I had messed up text for many items in the game, and lots of missing string references.
After I closed the game out, I saw there was another patch for it too. Now that I have installed the other patch and the game won't launch anymore.
So in the last 2 patches, the first one messed up a lot of string references, and the most recent is preventing my game from launching at all. I hit play from the beamdog client and when the window opens, I can an error sound and an error window that comes up and the game won't launch.
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First: I'm glad that game issues are starting to be addressed. Thank you!
Second: I've found some type of massive memory issue on Intel integrated hardware (doesn't do it on my primary system with NV GPU). Here is a link and picture of task manager.
Third: I'm getting the audio stuttering while spell casting. Using Realtek integrated.
Lastly: I also noticed an issue that causes severe slowdown, even on a high end system. What happened was I equipped Minsc with the berzerker 2HS to "experiment", walked into the bar where Volo is, and starting cleaning house. When several commoners left the building and bunched up outside while fleeing, the game starts hitching and lagging very hard. It does not do this when I'm playing normally.
We're working on the movies issue.
The characters not doing what you told them is likely related to running with the AI on, so feel free to click the AI button (looks like a lantern on the lower right)
If I am incorrect, please give us a little more info to go from. The best would be an breakdown on a few cases, listing expected behaviour and observed behaviour.
Best,
-Trent
You can make a backup of your entire games folder.
Just copy the whole thing somewhere else and if the patch breaks something for you, you can always overwrite with your backup.
Remember also to make a copy of your save games and ini files etc.
They should be located in a Beamdog folder in your "My Documents" folder.
What if I close the window and shut down my pc while it's "getting download info"? may I mess with the game?
^ does that mean I can finish that quest? Lothander will spawn and Marek won't kill me? Because it was very annoying.
Anyway thanks for the help @Varyahen
Just make a backup copy of all game files (766 is the name i think).
Then just launch the upgrade. If you think it is worse, recover from the backup.
Now to wait till my main card comes back from the repairs.
http://i.imgur.com/RwDnD.jpg
I sent you a mail regarding this, and to Nathan too yesterday. It has the number of #1925.
The best topic about few monsters is here: http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/10462/fewer-enemies-in-bgee/p1
In the mail I sent to You there is a list with my reasonings for both of my main themes: old movies and few monsters in the random monster groups. If the mail is lost in the huge load I resend it to You again. Please read the above mentioned topic about the monsters. The bug is not about choosing another difficulty.
Thanks again for your answer.
I sent a mail to You with the Subject: "Mr. Trent: What is the problem with the monster spawning? - Please find my answer here."
Thank You again.
I'm playing the game in german and switching to english fixes the issue. It would seem that the problem lies within the "Updates to English, French, German text".
EDIT: Entries are missing again. Switching between german and english does not help, nor does loading different savegames.
After I closed the game out, I saw there was another patch for it too. Now that I have installed the other patch and the game won't launch anymore.
So in the last 2 patches, the first one messed up a lot of string references, and the most recent is preventing my game from launching at all. I hit play from the beamdog client and when the window opens, I can an error sound and an error window that comes up and the game won't launch.
We experiencing this problem are posting here: http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/10353/stuttering-audio-on-movies#latest
BTW: any update on this issue?