Hello every body. I've been a member of the site for a while but this is my first time using the forums.

So, I decided to go back to my game today, and I am at the notorious Black Mountain Mines. I killed a bunch of enemies, found some cool loot but since I was having trouble with the later parts of the mine, I decided to leave, sell my stuff, repair my equipment, maybe buy better stuff and, if necessary, grind for a while and focus more on side quests.

The problem is, I can't do any of that because when I reach the mine's entrance and click on the passage to leave, the game kind of freezes. The music still goes on as normal but I stay on the same map, the characters don't move and when I move my mouse to try and look around it leaves that weird trail you often see when a software is glitching. I can still use the Esc key to leave the game so the menus at least work but I just can't leave the mines. And since the enemies ahead are too strong I can't even keep going to try and find an alternate exit.

I can't think of a solution that doesn't involve starting a new game and hoping it doesn't happen again so I am turning to you guys in the hope you know of a way to fix this.

I don't recall having heard that one before.

Have you been using quicksave and quickload?

If no one here gives you a good answer, try asking at:

www.terra-arcanum.com

If nobody there can answer your question, it probably can't be answered. If you search through their forum there's a good chance you'll find a solution.

1. If you didn't use the unofficial arcanum patch, you should probably do a new install with the UAP and start over. Arcanum in it's original form has some issues.

2. If you have virgil in your party, go here http://www.terra-arcanum.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=15917 and click DOWNLOAD from the first post.

Put that file in your arcanum folder.

Talk to virgil, choose the questions dialogue option, then you can see [DEBUG MENU].

One of the debug menu options is teleportation, another is direct teleport to tarant.

In the future, carry around a few escape scrolls at all times. I believe the general stores stock them. Not only would it solve this problem for you, it just is worth the money to save time walking out of long dungeons.

I do use the UAP as I heard about the issues plus I was interested in the restored features as well as windowed mode (note that I am playing in fullscreen when the glitch happens so that's not the problem). I'll try the Virgil thing then. Thanks for the tip. Looks like Virgil is gonna save my ass yet again. :P

Well that's interesting. I installed the .dat file for Virgil and it works like a charm, but I also realized that I do have an escape scroll in my inventory (I presume that the "Scroll of Exiting", right?) so I tried it and it activated fine, but then I was stuck on a black screen. The UI was still there but I couldn't do anything (other than bring up the menu just like before).
So I then tried the teleport option from the debug menu and... the exact same thing happened. I fear there must be something wrong with the overworld for some reason. Guess I'm good to start over :/.

Oh well, I wasn't happy with my character build anyway.