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hi all....I began WW about a month ago, and i got a ways near the cemetary, and by then the crashes got to me abit, and with Neverwinter nights also on the front burner, i went to that. But I rub my hands to gether and am to try again...even with 400 modules of NWN, on my system, i must have other games to play, or else i will get bored!

i have three topics to write about

one...
the crashing?!....
it was NOT the problem with "codecs", as i would get quite a bit into the first part of the game, without problems. i would go into the town and then do things at the inn...the town hall...the armory, for instance. then when i would click on the gate, that hourglass would run...and run...and run some more: hangs up.
with my 1000megs of dedicated virtual memory and my 356 of RAM...i do not feel this is a "memory problem"! i FEAR it is that i have directX 8.1!!
I am NOT going to bust it and redo x7! too too many other games on my system that needs it.
I did find a very *very* obscure FAQ that says...if you need to, go back to 640 X 400 resolution with 16bit color!!
...then there is "software mode" i can try.

probably what i will need to do, is to just do ONE thing in the town, go out and save...then re-enter and do another thing...go back out and save *that* then go back in...etc...

any other observations, people, that you have on "crashing, locking up"?!!

two.....
I am going to redo my characters and i was interested in only doing one or two characters. but as i didled a bit with the screen, i realized that in order to get the full enjoymnet of the game as i *think* Bradley intended...is to use all of the character types, so that all of the skills are used...
especially...
fighter. wizard .priest. rogue. ranger.
I probably will go with that.

three....
i am tempted to find that FAQ site and post that faq in the forum!
it is written in GERMAN and only the google search engine's translator can get it in english and not too well at that. but i have not seen this faq anywhere else that i can recall: it looks to be an old old faq that is now gone from most other sites! it might have something in it that might help someone...look for it, in the forum, if i can find it again!!

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