wierdness

[Guest John]

This was truily weird. My pc Geoffery is a male, halfling CG generic archer. The group (Geoffery, Minsc, Jan, Sarah and Imoen) had finished fighting Irenicus at Spellhold. At some point during or just after the fight, Sarah's music (I presume) started playing but nothing happened. There was a stutter going on. My pc talked with her and got what seemed to me were normal responses, so I continued the game with hope that the stutter would go away once we reached the main floor of Spellhold.

 

Unfortunately, there was no change. Sarah's music continued as did the stutter. At this point, my pc again talked with Sarah and again asked if she was alright. The stutter remained, so I then had my pc talk with each of the other party members. No change re: the stutter. Then, I had Minsc talk with her. At this point, Sarah refers to her uncle and says she guesses we aren't going to help and promptly leaves.

 

Total surprise because AFAIK she never mentioned having to do something for him until this point in the game. She had talked about going to live with him after her father died, but that was it as far as I remember.

 

Help would be appreciated to remove the stutter, etc. or to know if the game with Sarah in the group can continue to the end.

 

Thanks,

 

John

[theacefes]

What version do you have?

[Guest John]

The WeiDU log lists it as:

~SARAHSOA/SETUP-SARAHSOA.TP2~ #0 #0 // Sarah NPC Romance Mod for BG2:SoA V1

 

but the .exe file I d/led and installed for the game is Sarah-v1.1.exe.

 

John

[theacefes]

Odd. I'm running a test with both her and Auren in the group, and we're just about at Spellhold and I haven't experienced any stutters yet but I'll keep looking for it. I had thought that bug was fixed before version 1 was even released. I'll keep looking.

[Guest John]

FWIW, if any of the other party members try to talk with Sarah, then she mentions her uncle and leaves. If the pc talks with her , her dialog options are the same as before the problem arose. The problem persists not just in Spellhold but also on Spellhold island and also on the Brynnlaw map. Sarah's music (I think it is, anyway) plays constantly except at the time when saving the game or moving to another area. When I click on the other group members, they do not speak up as they are supposed to do. I also double checked the journal but did not see anything in it about Sarah or her uncle.

 

I have ShadowKeeper, so if there is a global variable about which you need info, I can look for it. Unfortunately, real life limits how long I'll keep this particular game around because my intention was to complete it and then install some other mods to start a new game.

 

What I have experienced with Sarah so far was enjoyable, and I had looked forward to seeing what would happen thru the final confrontation with Irenicus. As a ranger, Sarah proved to be valuable for scouting and long bow support in fights. I had not given her any proficiencies in weapons such as two-handed swords or quarterstaff or spear to use the two-handed weapon style proficiency she had. Instead, she specialized in axes so that she could use Azuredge. Worked out pretty well.

 

John

[theacefes]

Well, I won't push you to keep playing Sarah or anything like that. If she's not working for you, then she's not working for you. But I do appreciate you telling me this. I am just about to Spellhold as I had said before, so we will see what is causing this.

[Guest John]

Don't get me wrong. I liked what I got to play and will add Sarah to games in the future; it's this game that has a problem, not Sarah the NPC.

 

I can wait a bit, but what I'll probably do if a workaround doesn't appear is to either do a fresh install of all the mods that interest me or roll back the BG2 Tweak Pack and Sarah and then add the other mods and re-install Sarah and the Tweak Pack. My experience is usually that a fresh install of all the mods works out better than re-installing mods.

 

John

[Guest SleepingDog]

FWIW, if any of the other party members try to talk with Sarah, then she mentions her uncle and leaves. If the pc talks with her , her dialog options are the same as before the problem arose. The problem persists not just in Spellhold but also on Spellhold island and also on the Brynnlaw map. Sarah's music (I think it is, anyway) plays constantly except at the time when saving the game or moving to another area. When I click on the other group members, they do not speak up as they are supposed to do. I also double checked the journal but did not see anything in it about Sarah or her uncle.

 

I have ShadowKeeper, so if there is a global variable about which you need info, I can look for it. Unfortunately, real life limits how long I'll keep this particular game around because my intention was to complete it and then install some other mods to start a new game.

 

What I have experienced with Sarah so far was enjoyable, and I had looked forward to seeing what would happen thru the final confrontation with Irenicus. As a ranger, Sarah proved to be valuable for scouting and long bow support in fights. I had not given her any proficiencies in weapons such as two-handed swords or quarterstaff or spear to use the two-handed weapon style proficiency she had. Instead, she specialized in axes so that she could use Azuredge. Worked out pretty well.

 

John

 

I have the same problem though we are in the Shadow Lord's temple. My PC talks to Sarah and then she talks about her uncle and leaves the party. This is the 1st time her uncle has been mentioned.

 

I also did a clean install and loaded

Auren Aseph v6

Dungeon Crawl v2

Tower of Deception v2

Unfinished Business v15 (bits of)

G3 BG2 Tweaks and Fix (v5, v4)

Improved Summons

Banter v7

Item upgrade

 

I also have Level 1 NPC and Geomantic Sorcerer loaded but I had this problem in September before these mods were released. Any help appreciated.

 

regards

[theacefes]

Can you confirm you have Sarah 1.1?

[Guest Guest]

Can you confirm you have Sarah 1.1?

 

My answer to that is yes but on further investigation I am puzzled. The application I used was downloaded on 29th September and was called "Sarah-v1.1" however the "Setup-SarahSoA" debug file has the following line:-

 

SUCCESSFULLY INSTALLED Sarah NPC Romance Mod for BG2:SoA V1

 

Is this just a message that has not been updated or do I actually not have v1.1 installed?

 

Just to re-iterate. I uninstalled BG2 and deleted all the files in the BGII - SoA directory so doing a clean install of BG2 and the mods mentioned above.

 

I could download Sarah v1.1 again and re-install. What do you think?

 

regards

 

Bill

[theacefes]

That does need to be updated.

 

Try redownloading and installing. It couldn't hurt.

[Guest SleepingDog]

That does need to be updated.

 

Try redownloading and installing. It couldn't hurt.

 

No luck - same problem.

 

I looked into the state of global variables and the ones prefixed Sarah had the following values:-

 

FriendshipActive 1

PreTalk 7

TalkFriend 1

TimerFriend 360449

TimerPre 332727

 

Is there a way to force the Uncle quest to start?

[Guest SleepingDog]

That does need to be updated.

 

Try redownloading and installing. It couldn't hurt.

 

No luck - same problem.

 

I looked into the state of global variables and the ones prefixed Sarah had the following values:-

 

FriendshipActive 1

PreTalk 7

TalkFriend 1

TimerFriend 360449

TimerPre 332727

 

Is there a way to force the Uncle quest to start?

 

 

I saved often and continued with the game and it's been a fair few hours since I had the "you haven't helped my uncle" speech. Seems to be working fine so far.

[theacefes]

This is odd because the Uncle quest should only happen if you are romancing her....

 

I'm putting together a list of bugs...this is weird.

[Guest SleepingDog]

This is odd because the Uncle quest should only happen if you are romancing her....

 

I'm putting together a list of bugs...this is weird.

 

Just for clarity. The uncle quest has not started yet but progress is being made in that I don't get Sarah just disappearing at what appeared to be random events. For the moment I am happy.