Recently, for seemingly no reason, my game would crash every time I tried to enter to Copper Coronet. I tried reloading, changing areas, reinstalling patches. Finally, it cleared up when I cleaned everything out and reinstalled the whole lot (backing up my save, of course). It was a pain in the butt.
I'm trying to figure out what I did to bring this on, as I've tinkered with the game a bit. Along with the official patch, and the G3 patch, I also have installed the Ease of Use mod, but only the option that lets me have multiple strongholds. I always play some kind of mage, but this time I'm soloing a mage/thief and I wanted to see what the thief stronghold was like (along with getting the planar sphere). However, I found that this mod lets you have every stronghold, as I'm apparently also running the playhouse.
I also SK'd my game a bit. My goal was to create an assassin/wild mage so I created a gnome assassin to start, and then Sk'd the mage class in only giving myself the chaos shields and NRD. I figured it wouldn't be a real wild mage, as I don't have the variable level spellcasting, nor the 5% change of a wild surge anytime I cast a spell, but I figured I could fake it all with NRD. Eventually, I SK'd it again, and went from assassin/mage to thief/wild mage just because it wasn't the same without the full wild mage class. Of course, now I have to SK all the assassin stuff every level (to deduct points and add abilities), but I'm thinking of just totally SKing the assassin bits out (and playing a wild mage/thief) as it's not worth the bother.
Next, I was thinking of installing Unfinished Business, but I'm not sure if I should rock the boat any further. EDIT I'm also planning on installing the Quest Pack mod mentioned in the "Mod Me!" thread by dragon wench (unless I receive advice to the contrary).
Anyway, has this problem happened to anyone before, or can anyone isolate anything in what I've done with the game that could be causing this? Thanks.