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Last edited by Ulir on Sat, Nov 28 2015, 20:46 PM, edited 3 times in total.

So, two of my friends and I are experiencing trouble with areas that appear completely black. NPCS or monsters are visible, but transitions become impossible to use and loot will not be targetable. It is increasing in frequency, and can range from normal houses/indoor areas to parts of a map, for instance the kobold/goblin cave.

It is very frustrating to say the least, as you may be trapped in a room, if the door closes behind you.

mercedes and I are experiencing this frequently too, even DMside.

I have experienced this, as well. I thought it was just my crap computer and didn't think anything of it.

First time was when I logged in. The entry room was all black and I had to re-log to fix it.

Second time was in the Map Room in Cordor.

Third time, I was in the first level of the goblin caves in the Frontier (can't remember the name for the life of me) and it was just a huge section of the map - but not the whole thing.

All happened in the morning when there weren't many people on.

I've experienced this as well. Once in the Travel Agency, and once in the Cordor markethall.

I've hit this in the merchant hall in Cordor, the school house in Bendir Dale, and once in town hall. PCs and NPCs are visible but nothing else.

Happened to me an hour ago in the Temple of Malar. First time I've seen it.

I and two others got this at least once in the Nexus under Cordor, fixed it by relogging though.

Yeah I started getting this, twice in the last....24 hours or so, but both times were on A-mia, I have not had it happen on B yet.

I have been seeing the same, too. So far where I have seen mine have been where Jes has seen hers with the addition of a few.

Jes wrote:

First time was when I logged in. The entry room was all black and I had to re-log to fix it.

Second time was in the Map Room in Cordor.

Third time, I was in the first level of the goblin caves in the Frontier (can't remember the name for the life of me) and it was just a huge section of the map - but not the whole thing.

I have, like Nivo, also seen the black space in the Travel Agency and the Cordor market hall.

The last time I have seen it was inside the Shekat Caves. It's hard to pin point where I saw this. Bits and pieces of the area were entirely black and I saw them sporadically throughout both areas, but it was not bad enough that I needed to relog. I visited the areas twice and the black spaces seemed to be random, as the second time where they were at had changed.

After the next update rolls out we'll see what happens. (h15)

Nivo wrote:

I've experienced this as well. Once in the Travel Agency, and once in the Cordor markethall.

Second this, as well as the very first Beastman area, and the forgotten library in the Yuan Ti dungeon.

I just got black areas in the bloodmoon interior areas.

Mark me down for an Amia A Entry blackout.

Happened to me in Cordor East: Interiors but unvoided itself after half a minute.

I got it again in the entry room of the Burning Dead Crypt. I exited and entered again which seemed to clear it up.

Bitter Coast: Brigand Lair did it.

Pinky's Pawn in West Cordor. Relogged and it spawned me in the Welcome to Amia room.

Cordor Trade/Craft Hall thingy (not the Market Hall - the one with all of the job trainers), whatever it's called. I'll grab the exact name later.

Rania's house in Bendir Dale, though it didn't affect RP for me, so I left it, haha.

FYI - this bug typically does not repeat. So if you leave an area and re-enter it should load correctly.

msheeler wrote:

So if you leave an area and re-enter it should load correctly.

When you can leave. I've had to get a DM rescue. Time to legitimize the use of server-swap-logging relocation~

You could use the portal wand or a re-log would also fix the issue.

I know they aren't perfect solutions, but till it's tracked down and fixed it's what we have.

Relogging didn't fix it for me one of the times. Didn't try portaling since I ... didn't have any charges on the character I was on at the time.

Happened in the Cordor Merchant hall, the Lantern Room in Cordor, the Sewers in North Cordor and first room of the Beastmen.

Lately when I get this bug, if I wait ten or twenty seconds, the area loads. Before I'd wait as much as a minute and nothing.

There is another change in the pipeline for this, we'll see how that goes once it's implemented.

Cool, thanks Faded. We will, no doubt, keep the devs apprised as to how it turns out. :lol:

Monastery shop in Cordor had this happen today.

Stinkpot Warrens, not sure which because I couldn't check from portrait-hovering. This one was weird, because I had already been in the Area, and it was a room (in that same area) behind a door that was blacked out, and I couldn't proceed through the Area Transition into the next part of the same Area. Ported out, then returned to previous location made it normal.

Kohlingen Mythal Forge. Area was black, waited a minute, nothing changed. Logged out, then back in, was put in the start area. Returned to the Forge area and it was still black. Portalled out.

If you have not yet changed the memory usage allowance in nwnplayer.ini, please check that it's at least set to this or higher

Code:

[Game Options]
Max Memory Usage=1024
##other stuff

It will likely improve your overall experience regardless of this issue, so it's good to have.

Mine looks like this..

[Game Options]
Memory Level=1
Memory Access=2
TooltipDelay uSec=100000
Enable FloatyTextFeedback=1
Hide SecondStoryTiles=0
Single Player ItemLevelRestrictions=0
Single Player Enforce Legal Characters=0
Client CPU Affinity=0
ClientEntireChatWindowLogging=0
LogMyEmoteUsage=0
In-game Text Swear Filter=0
Visible Cloaks=1
Heartbeat Logging=0
Difficulty Level=1
Log Model Errors=0
Death Logging=0
MouseoverFeedback=1
TextBubbleMode=1
DisablePartyInvitePopup=0

No Max Memory Usage at all. Should I add it to the script?

Here's mine, and there are 5 lines in addition to Ulir's list, and one numerical difference. (highlighted) The order is also different.

[Game Options]
Memory Level=1
Memory Access=2
TooltipDelay uSec=100000
Enable FloatyTextFeedback=1
Hide SecondStoryTiles=0
Single Player ItemLevelRestrictions=0
Single Player Enforce Legal Characters=0
ClientEntireChatWindowLogging= 1 (no space between = and 1)
LogMyEmoteUsage=0
Client CPU Affinity=0
In-game Text Swear Filter=0
Visible Cloaks=1
MouseoverFeedback=1
TextBubbleMode=1
TargetingFeedbackMode=2
Difficulty Level=1
Heartbeat Logging=0
Log Model Errors=0
Death Logging=0
DisablePartyInvitePopup=0
Memory Checksum=
CODEWORD=rangersandhamsters
CODEWORD XP2=bionoel
Max Memory Usage=1024 (this was set at 64, before Faded's suggestion above)

I've been having success with getting an area to appear when it doesn't load up by using the 'w' key to step forward a couple steps and the area will appear.

I am going to close this since there is a newer topic that deals with this issue and to we've implemented several fixes for this bug already.

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