Lock up problems

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The game has just started locking up on me. I've been playing for almost a month now, and never had any problems until now.

I just uninstalled and reinstalled the full version on Saturday, and added more RAM on Sunday and no problems until about half an hour ago. It seems only happen when I do actions with Minsc. I'm in the De'Arnise stronghold, and trying to get him to forge the flail (only 2 heads at this point).

Anyone else had this problem? I'm getting tired of rebooting.

[update: I just did a refrag on the drive where BG2 is installed...no progress...and more specific to the problem...when I enter Minsc's inventory is when it locks up. This does not happen in any other party memeber's inventory]

Am I going to have to reinstall again?

[This message has been edited by Beorn (edited November 01, 2000).]

 

The only problem i have is when i'm traveling between screens i get a blue screen crash. It happens quite a bit in BG with me too. Anyone got any ideas how to help me too?

 

In reply to the blue screen problem...

The first thing I do when I start getting blue screens and illegal ups is do a scan disk and defrag on ALL hard drives. If that doesn't work, and the blue screens are frequent, I usually end up reformatting (not fun).

 

i get the blue screen when i quick save and also get a problem where it saves over and over again as if i have the got the q key peranently pressed i end up banging the reset button on the front of my pc,this is happening quite often my pc now thinks its a console its been reset so many times and as for bloody scandisk well dont get me started............

 

stupid idea-

maybe you could kick minsc out of your party and try to recruit him back? or just drop him altogether. perhaps you could kill him with your other characters?

so i said it was a stupid idea

 

I'm beginning to think it's a corrupt saved game file or something like that...

I can't drop him altogether...he's got two heads to the flail and the sword of chaos. Maybe I will try to kick him out and bring him back, I never thought of that...I'll keep you posted.

I try to scandisc and defrag at least every two weeks. It's a pain in the ass, but it seems to keep Windows at bay for the most part.

[This message has been edited by Beorn (edited November 01, 2000).]

 

I tried dropping Minsc and picking him up again...worth a try, but didn't work.

I also loaded up other saved games with a different main character, at a different point of the game, and everything was hunky-dory. Therefore, I am more convinced that I have corrupt saved game files...all orinating from the same one, so I might have to start over. I'm going to reinstall one more time just in case though.

I'd appreciate any more thoughts people have though.

[edit: Minsc is carrying the sword of chaos. Is this a CE item? I downloaded those zips posted on the board, would that have something to do with this?]

[This message has been edited by Beorn (edited November 02, 2000).]