Posted March 24, 2016
So, I started playing the GOG Complete Edition of the NWN2 original campaign fairly recently, and made it as far as Neverwinter without having a single crash or any performance related issues whatsoever. Since I've reached Neverwinter, I've begun to have freezes during fights that force me to close the game through the task manager, which shows the game as "not responding."
The first time or two that it happened I could have written it off as a minor, infrequent annoyance, but it has been happening more frequently, and the game is now more or less unplayable for me as I'm currently stuck on the first group of enemies in the Back Alley map, while helping the thieves move the wagon through the alley. That is, the game is freezing literally every time during this particular fight now, and since it's (I believe) necessary for progressing the main plot, I'm pretty much out of luck unless I can figure out a way to circumvent the crashes. It's possible I could just keep trying in hopes of eventually getting lucky, as the crashes seem to be semi-random in terms of when they specifically occur, but I'll be damned if I'm going to play the rest of the game like that.
As I said, as far as I can tell the crashes don't occur when I'm doing anything specific-- just while fighting generally. Sometimes it's happened while selecting a different character, sometimes while scrolling the screen, sometimes while clicking an enemy, etc. I have wondered if it could be something specific to the maps or enemies in Neverwinter, since I didn't have any such crashes prior to the city, or if it's the sort of problem that doesn't manifest until several hours into the game. I was just hoping somebody here had heard of similar problems and had some ideas how to prevent them.
I'm on Windows 7 64-bit and playing the game through Galaxy. GPU is a GTX 960 using the latest drivers, processor is an i5 4460. I can provide more info if anyone thinks it would help. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
The first time or two that it happened I could have written it off as a minor, infrequent annoyance, but it has been happening more frequently, and the game is now more or less unplayable for me as I'm currently stuck on the first group of enemies in the Back Alley map, while helping the thieves move the wagon through the alley. That is, the game is freezing literally every time during this particular fight now, and since it's (I believe) necessary for progressing the main plot, I'm pretty much out of luck unless I can figure out a way to circumvent the crashes. It's possible I could just keep trying in hopes of eventually getting lucky, as the crashes seem to be semi-random in terms of when they specifically occur, but I'll be damned if I'm going to play the rest of the game like that.
As I said, as far as I can tell the crashes don't occur when I'm doing anything specific-- just while fighting generally. Sometimes it's happened while selecting a different character, sometimes while scrolling the screen, sometimes while clicking an enemy, etc. I have wondered if it could be something specific to the maps or enemies in Neverwinter, since I didn't have any such crashes prior to the city, or if it's the sort of problem that doesn't manifest until several hours into the game. I was just hoping somebody here had heard of similar problems and had some ideas how to prevent them.
I'm on Windows 7 64-bit and playing the game through Galaxy. GPU is a GTX 960 using the latest drivers, processor is an i5 4460. I can provide more info if anyone thinks it would help. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
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