haleseen: Hello there. I'm having a slight issue with darkstone that I do not know how to solve. Currently, I'm able to play the game just fine (with the -sortbyz cmd parameter), but I can't use any spells or skills effectively (or, at all, rather), leaving me with just a hack and slash type game. I can select skills to put on the bar/slot just fine, but it'll almost immediately scroll up (to whatever number is above that), remove the skill that was on the slot and just keep on scrolling through the numbers infinitely. It only happens on the currently selected character.

Fluffyxai: I've been having this problem for years no matter what I do, installed through different sources, on different computers, different windows installs, it ALWAYS happens. makes the game unplayable. not just because of the relentlessly irritating noise that makes me want to claw my ears off but also because it removes a crucial game mechanic.

I can't believe that there is even anyone who can play the game normally given that it always happens on any PC/windows I've installed it to.
I wonder if people are doing something differently?

I have mine installed outside of the C drive, if that helps.
Otherwise, I don't have any new information to share.
But I can't believe there isn't a fix/patch.

ThatAin'tBaseball!: Thread necro, but I was also having this problem suddenly, while in the past I had never had this problem. I discovered that it had something to do with background programs running- In my case, I had "ScreenToGif" and "DisplayFusion" running in the little icon tray on my taskbar where you click the up-arrow button there to show them, as pictured. I right-click exited these programs and now no longer have this issue. Perhaps it has something specifically to do with any "background" program that is related to multiple monitor setups or running in the background of another program, such as screen-to-gif in my case. Try disabling such programs and see if it works then.