Crash when entering de'Arnise Hold outside area.

[Daniel]

Hi, I am having a game crash I cant seem to get past.  I get into the outside map of the keep, I fight the first Spiret troll, then it crashes.

I have A full install of SoA and Throne of Bhaal.

This is the order of the things I installed:

1. Throne of Bhaal official patch

2.  The Baldurdash patch

3. Spell-50

4. Item Upgrade

5. Ascension

6. Tactics

7. Underrepresented items

8. Unfinished Buisness

9. Ease of Use.

Ok now for the options that I did NOT install, I repeat THINGS I DID NOT INSTALL:

Tactics
-No Kits

Unfinished Buisness
-Gorje Illithium
-No Portrets
-No Kits

Ease of use
-Faster Cutseans
-Turn off cloak of mirrioring graphic
-Keep Drizzt loot
-No Drow Avatars
-Say anything in romances and they still continue
-Happy NPC's
-No traps or locks
-Rest anywhere


Those are the options that I DID NOT INSTALL.

My group consists of me, a Ranger/Cleric and a FIghter/Mage/Thief, just the two of us.

How can I fix this crash issue?  Is it related to UB?  What happens if I install UB?  Will I have to start a new game?

[Daniel]

Ok, the crash happens when I walk a little North of the pathway leading to the drawbridge the path with the stakes in the group with heads on them (I think).

[SimDing0™]

I seem to remember Tactics causing the De'Arnise Keep to crash. You might try uninstalling that and seeing if it helps, although you may need a save before you've visited the area to test it.

[who_is_daniel]

Thank you very very much for the reply!  There is nothing worse then spending 10-50 hours on a game and not being able to finish it!  I did find an answere at  like 2am... I just did not walk onto the pathway... I went straight too talk the Nalia and then in the back way... worked fine.

Is there anything I need too be carfull of bug wise that you know of?

Thank you again for your responce

[SixOfSpades]

It is indeed the Improved de'Arnisse Keep that causes the bug, or at least that's what I found to be the case in my Tactics Review. Apparently, the problem lies in the other two Spirit Trolls (the one north of the drawbridge and the one near the north of the map) do not spawn correctly, and the AI that Weimer wrote for them tries to issue commands to a creature that hasn't spawned yet, thus locking up the system. Temporary fixes include unistalling the Improved Keep until you get inside, or alternatively trying it again and again--you'll have to try it roughly 5 times before it loads correctly, enabling you to clear the entire map.