Equim: So the game has been running perfectly up until this point and I've been enjoying my time with it. However, I have now run into a bug that basically prevents me from continuing the game at this point.

During the King's Gambit quest in Skellige, after the ambush at the party and choosing to help Cerys investigate the whole thing, you eventually go to chase down Arnvald. After doing so, there is, lets call it a loading screen where the jarls are supposedly gathered. However, this never happens. The screen goes black except for the little loading circle.
Only way to close down the game is alt+f4 or through task manager. Loading the latest checkpoint save causes the same issue. So does repeating the chase and getting to the same point. As well as redoing the whole thing from the party and onward.

I don't know if there are any issues if you decide to help.. Hjalmar was it? I haven't tested that since this is the route I wanted to take. But I doubt it will have the same issue as I assume it would have a different line of events entirely.

Edit: After testing the other route during the quest, I've found that it also seems to happen here, after defeating the druid in the caves. Infinite loading follows.

Pierogies: Contributing:

I have the same issue. I have tried the following

> Changing all settings to minimum, no effect
> Loading a previous save, and instead of catching him, I got to the bottom of the mountain and fought the Seamen (lol), still same loading issue after the fight
> Meditating to remove the potions I had previously applied (Cat, a decoction, etc.), no effect
> Applied the 1.04 patch (I was 1.03 previously), no effect

Nothing has worked so far. I literally can't do anything else since all my recent saves are RIGHT during this part of the mission.

SOMEONE PLEASE HELP, OH GOD.