Interface Disappears; unable to unpause and continue - help? :P

FriedrichPsitalon

So I've had this problem twice now with my iPad 3 very early in the Black Pits:

The interface will disappear (usually when I unpause combat, but sometimes even when combat is paused) and no combination of taps, holds, shakes, or voodoo magic will make it reappear again...which means I can't unpause, which means the game is pretty much permanently frozen.

(And as an aside, I never got any gold after the first fight - I saw a message about LOSING 1400, but never anything else. So I took on the gibberlings on the strength of my party's magic. Fine, whatever, but doesn't the ringleader mention giving you some cash?)

Little help would be appreciated. More with the first issue, but the second wouldn't hurt.

Illydth

If we can get confirmation from another source on this, I'll post it to the iPad Known Issues post.

I assume this is "random" not on any given fight or sequence. Does it happen less often if you reboot the iPad and more likely the longer you play?

I've not been in the Black Pits yet, so I can't confirm.

FriedrichPsitalon

The first time it happened was immediately after I won the first fight and was teleported to the merchant area. I had to reboot the iPad to get the game to clear so that I could reload. Fired up the autosave, when I did, off to fight the gibberlings, one enemy left in the fight and I issued a few commands, interface disappeared again, and I don't know of any way to make it come back.

Illydth

Is it just the game interface that disappears (i.e. the buttons and tappable objects) or does the screen like "go black". i.e. Can you still see your characters and such? Can you still tap and select objects in the game? Can you issue move orders (which should just require a tap somewhere on the screen to move the already highlighted character)?

If you tap a location where the interface would be does something activate (i.e. the interface is invisible/not drawn but still there), or does nothing happen (i.e. the interface is literally turned off)?

FriedrichPsitalon

I can issue orders (the characters acknowledge them) but since the action is paused, they obviously don't react. I can interact with anything on the playing field.

Areas where the interface SHOULD be produce no result. It really is very much as though there is a "hide interface" button that I can't toggle. (In fact, were this a PC game, that would be what I would immediately check the manual for - that is precisely how it is acting.)

Illydth

This isn't what you're talking about right?

EDIT: Wrong Link!

http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/10010/bug-the-black-pit-black-screen/p1

FriedrichPsitalon

Err... I see a post mentioning the woeful state of support and various issues for various laptops. Am I missing something? I haven't submitted a ticket yet because I was hoping the solution was just some arcane gesture I was missing.

GygaxianProse

Ive had similar bugs. Interface blacking out, whole screen blacking out. Seems to be upon coming back in-game from the "desktop". BGEE on iPad doesn't seem to like to be "parked" while you do something else. (Gen 3 also )

FriedrichPsitalon

I started a game up in the NON-Black Pits section, for what it's worth, and have not experienced this problem at all leading up to the meeting at the Friendly Arms - I've also deliberately encountered every critter in that first map zone to try and trigger it. Nothing. Seems, so far, to be Black Pits specific.

Rafner

Are you sure you haven't just hidden your interface? You can do this by pressing the small button on the very top of either the bar with the portraits, or the very top of the bar with map, inventory, pause button, etc. To make your interface appear again, just press the same button that you pressed to hide it.

Illydth

Damn it, I posted the wrong link:

http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/10010/bug-the-black-pit-black-screen/p1

Illydth

GygaxianProse said:

Ive had similar bugs. Interface blacking out, whole screen blacking out. Seems to be upon coming back in-game from the "desktop". BGEE on iPad doesn't seem to like to be "parked" while you do something else. (Gen 3 also )

Yea, the blacking out screen upon load is something reported already. The link I just posted also seems to note a blacking of the screen associated with black pits specifically.

I don't think either of those is what he's mentioning where the INTERFACE goes away but the game is still there/playable.

Friedrich: Do check @Rafner's information, while I haven't checked this myself, if there's a way to hide the interface you may have accidently triggered it? Do you happen to be playing with a bluetooth keyboard attached and could it be that you've hit a key combo potentially?

Shazam

Rafner said:

Are you sure you haven't just hidden your interface? You can do this by pressing the small button on the very top of either the bar with the portraits, or the very top of the bar with map, inventory, pause button, etc. To make your interface appear again, just press the same button that you pressed to hide it.

This solved my problem. Thanks! The border of my iPad case was in the way of me pressing the tiny button. I must have inadvertently pressed it at some point.

MrUniverse

I'm having this exact same bug. Interface is gone, no sidebar, or button to hide/ unhide. Also notable, my party is ported over from main, and some are leveled from a previous run through the pits.

Finally, with this bug, I can confirm no money fir the first round victory.