Help! Cntrls faded after last treant killed

[katstrut]

Help! Cntrls faded after last treant killed in Fell Wood

Hi guys, I am truly stuck in IWDII & have to abandon play. Does anyone have any suggestions for me?

I am in Fell Wood killing the treants, when I kill the last treant a path is supposed to be revealed which takes me to the next challenge. Unfortunately I get stuck.

I kill the last treant:

* My party gains XP
* Then the top line controls fade (cannot select characters)
* Characters 'breathe' so it looks like the game is still going along but they don't 'stretch' or 'complain' of lack of movement like they normally do, also if any characters were affected in any way, eg confused, it wears off after a minute or so.
* When I move the cursor around the screen, it remains in the hand state (similar to when a party member is confused and you can't select them)
* I cannot move to the corners of the map - it remains fixed.
* I can click on the bottom section of the control panel (ie inventory button etc) and I hear the normal click, the button depresses but nothing actually happens (tried them all).

Basically I am stuck and literally have to shut down the game from my desktop.

I installed the latest patch prior to this point.

Can anyone help??? I would be surely grateful.

[Julian]

Still got problems, long time no reply.

Never had the problem myself, does it happen all the time at the same point, tried setting the pc's in different places(computers are odd).

All the advice I can give you is to:

1. Take a backup of your savegame, C:\Program Files\Black Isle\Icewind Dale II\mpsave is default path.

2. reinstall the game and patches

3. Put your save back in to the same folder and start the game agian.

Hope this helps, you are getting to my favoritt part of the game now

Happy gaming

[katstrut]

Hi Julian,

Thanks for your suggestions. Yes I placed the characters in different positions and implemented various playing tactics to get past this point with no luck.

I will try your suggestion and reinstall the game and patch.

Will post back here if successful. Thanks!

[thor44]

Am playing through IWS2 again after a long while and I have run into the same problem. The game time seems to keep going as spells wear off etc. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling without the patch. Did not work. I tried it again with the patch. Did not work. The only idea that i had was to use the Cheats to transport my party to the next area. Can anyone offer me any other help?

[thor44]

Well, I got through it! I did three things at the same time so I am not sure if it is one or a combination of them that did it.
1. I set my Graphics Card to no hardware acceleration.
2. I set the resolution of IWD2 to the lowest 800x600 (and turned down all the other graphics options)
3. Before I entered the area where the Dark Treants attack I has my thief hide. When the treants attacked me I sen my hidden thief up toward the center of the area so that he would have a clear view of the area where the exit was supposed to appear. I then used the rest of my party to dispatch the dark treants and the new exit appeared just as it should!

Hope this helps someone else who has the same problem.

[countzero]

800x600 it is

Hi there...

I ran into the same problem minutes ago. After googling this thread (thanks guys ), I experimented with moving my characters this way and that, changing resolution et cetera. Just setting the graphics to 800x600 did it for me.

Regards,

count