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[Master Po]

I got the following bug when going through the portal in Chateau Irenicus. The video briefly showed the screen where you meet Yoshimo, then another screen comes on similar to the intro screen with the crystal shard. Game hangs at that point. Any ideas?

SOA fresh install
Installed RoT
Patched with 1.0a and Patch3


Installed the following fom Weimer Ease 0.32

Infinite Weapon, Potion and Ring/Amulet Stacking
Shut Up "You Must Gather Your Party Before Venturing Forth"
Wear Magical Armor AND Magic Rings (etc.)
XP Cap Remover
Allow Multi-Player Created NPCs to "Wait Here" When Kicked Out
Unlimited Bag of Holding (Blucher)
Low Reputation Store Discount (Sabre)
Rest Anywhere (Japheth)

I just discovered Patch 4 and put it in Override folder with other patches and the problem is the same.

I even tried MoveToArea(AR0603) instead of using the portal and it brought up the same screwed up cut scene.

Edited by Master Po, 08 September 2005 - 06:39 PM.

[Diana]

It could be that all the ROT patches had to be installed before any of the WEIDU mods.

I've installed Weimer's Ease of Use but I didn't use the following components:
Allow Multi-Player Created NPCs to "Wait Here" When Kicked Out
Low Reputation Store Discount (Sabre)
Rest Anywhere (Japheth)

And the mod has been working perfectly. My installation was:

1. New SOA install
2. Official Bioware SOA patch
3. Baldurdash patch for SOA only
4. ROT
5. Weimer Ease of Use (selected components)
6. Weimer Item Upgrade (SOA portion only)
7. Weimer Solaufein
8. Weimer Valen
9. PPG Banter Packs - SOA portion only
10. Blacksheep's Sir Neh'Taniel mod
11. Gibberlings 3 - G3Tweaks - selected components

[Gilgamesh]

Hmm...clearly something is preventing the cutscene from beginning. I´m not familiar with those other mods you installed but I´ll take a look into this (among other RoT things) during the weekend. If nothing helps, I can make a special patch which skips the cutscene for ye.

[Gilgamesh]

I just had an idea what might be wrong...

Two questions:

1. Who do you have in your party?
2. Do you see any characters in the screen where the game hangs?

[Master Po]

I just had an idea what might be wrong...

Two questions:

1. Who do you have in your party?
2. Do you see any characters in the screen where the game hangs?

Diana,

All RoT patches were installed prior to the Ease mods. I didn't install any bioware patches as I thought they were incompatible. Do I need the Bioware patch?

I have uninstalled the following from Ease of Use and am getting the same hang.

XP Cap Remover
Allow Multi-Player Created NPCs to "Wait Here" When Kicked Out
Low Reputation Store Discount (Sabre)
Rest Anywhere (Japheth)

Now the only remaining Ease mods are:

Infinite Weapon, Potion and Ring/Amulet Stacking
Shut Up "You Must Gather Your Party Before Venturing Forth"
Wear Magical Armor AND Magic Rings

Gilgamesh,

I am playing on multiplayer with two generated player characters plus Minsc, Jaheira, Imoen and Wolfgar.

The screen where the game hangs shows about the top two-thirds of the screen with the lower part black. In addition, the mouse pointer appears on the screen and it is movable. No characters are visible.

Thanks everyone for your help.

Edited by Master Po, 09 September 2005 - 11:56 AM.

[Gilgamesh]

Just as I thought. I never considered the possibility of a multiplayer game...

Anyway, I´ll explain as shorty as possible what is happening here. You see, when a mod cut-scene is made, Player1 must stand in the cut-scene for it to work. It looks pretty stupid though so I figured a way to go around that. In the first two cut-scenes the maximum number of characters in a party is 5 (First only Player1 and then P1, Imoen, Minsc, Jaheira and Wulfgar). So, based on that I wrote a line in the script which handles these cut scenes that makes Jarlaxle join your party during the cut-scene (as at least one place is still free). That way no extra characters are shown in the cut-scene. Anyway, what is happening here is that as you have a multi-player game and all the places are taken, Jarlaxle is trying to join you in the beginning of the cut-scene but is not able to and this causes the game to just hang there.

Solution:
Kick out one of your party memeber prior to entering the portal. Watch the cutscene and then return to get him/her back.

[Diana]

All RoT patches were installed prior to the Ease mods. I didn't install any bioware patches as I thought they were incompatible. Do I need the Bioware patch?

I see Gilgamesh has found the problem and solution. Since I never do multi-player I guess that is why I avoided this problem.

As for the bioware patch for SOA - I haven't had any problem playing RoT with it installed. I've also installed Lightspeed's One Pixel Production mod and have had no problems.

I've also tried the 'stone look' gui mode for Tutu and that works -- but I uninstalled that one as I didn't want to lose RoT's opening GUI screen.

[Master Po]

Gilgamesh,

Your solution worked, thanks.

I dropped Jaheira, but I needed room to get Drizzt later anyway, right?

I'll probably add some of the other mods which Diana is using before I get any further along.

The reason I like using multiplayer, even when starting with just one PC is so I have the option later in the game to add another PC. You can't do that with singleplayer.

Edited by Master Po, 10 September 2005 - 08:27 AM.

[Gilgamesh]

Yep, Drizzt is joining the fun at the end of the dungeon.