[Known] Multiplayer Pause-Lock Bug
Horchata
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I'm trying to play though BG:EE with a friend and about 50% of the time when he pauses and unpauses, my screen remains greyed out and my characters are still stuck like I'm paused. My friend successfully unpauses and fights or moves, and I see all of his actions in the dialogue box but my characters are unresponsive and he tells me they just stand there. During this time I can't see any animations but sound files continue to play such as spells being cast. The only ways I have found to break the pause is to either close the game and restart, or for my friend to initiate dialogue. Anyone else have this issue and possibly know a fix?
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I don't know how many people have reported on the bug but when it becomes apparent again I would implore you to test it a few times with the following conditions.
1. have yourself in his game but not in control of any characters and see if the same issue occurs
2. alter the options settings regarding pausing. (my friend just informed me it happened on rest and other issues such as when i initiated a dialogue so i'm unsure if that would do anything)
so perhaps somewhere in the baldur.ini file is the answer?
I've raised internally as ticket #22169
The best way to bring to our attention is outlined at http://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/49845/how-to-report-bugs so please feel free to help out in future.
Thanks
Bottom Line Up Front:
I was the host of an online game with one other player joining via wifi. After my PC’s death, quicksaving caused the other online player’s game to pause, and was unable to unpause. The pausing issue also seemed to occur when entering a new zone. As the game organizer, I was unable to unpause her game unless I entered into dialogue with some other NPC. Is there a fix to this?
Extended Edition:
My wife and I chose Baldur’s Gate: Enhanced Edition to spend our nights. I know, I know, perhaps this demonstrates a lack of imagination. Or does it! HA!
We each downloaded our copy of the game from Steam. She has a Mac and I have a Windows 10 laptop. No issues whatsoever getting a game started up online. We both rolled new characters and dove in to play the story together. I hosted the game. We were having a great time, until my Player Character (PC) died. No big deal, and I learned to quicksave after that. However, quicksaving the game caused my wife’s instance of the game to pause. She received the message “Holuvar paused the game”, Holuvar being my PC. She was unable to move, interact, etc. I was unable to correct the problem from my end by pressing spacebar, etc. It so happened that talking to a NPC, such as a commoner, would unpause her game. It was a minor inconvenience, but kept occurring. I also occurred at times when entering new areas of the map, a building, etc. We slogged on, until we came to areas with no NPC’s to “unfreeze” her. I would then take control of her PC, then give control back, and that seemed to work, sometimes. Repeating the process is tedious however, and we are looking for some help. Is there a fix for this, or some simple command that would prevent this from happening? Thank you for your consideration and assistance.
keep the ancient multipayer module who works with no/few bugs
http://support.baldursgate.com/issues/22170