[b23] Can't re-enter Iron Council

[darrenh2]

Playing as a dwarf fighter, finished Relkor, left to explore and whenever I try to return to the Iron Council, the game freezes.

Actually, it does load, I get into the Council but as soon as a I take a step, then the game freezes.

[Hedrachi]

Does it continue playing music when it freezes? I've been seeing this when I enter any city from the worldmap, it usually un-freezes after a minute or two though.

[darrenh2]

I'm mostly deaf so I usually keep the sound and music off.
I turned it up and tried waiting, and it worked....I guess i wasn't patient enough.

thank you

[evouga]

The fact that you have to wait a "minute or two" for the game to unfreeze, with no indication that anything's going on, is nevertheless inexcusable and still a bug.

[shooth]

This happens to me when I enter most cities in b23. It does not ALWAYS happen, and sometimes the "wait" is longer than others.

[Final Master]

Is the game by chance saving while this wait is occurring? If it is, you may want to adjust your save settings to not save when leaving or entering a new zone. If it is still happening, you may want to shut off all auto save settings.

Minimally though, I suggest always shutting off the ' Save in the Background ' setting as it actually slows just about everything down.

[Hedrachi]

Yeah, it acted like it was saving even though I had save on enter area disabled. The wait time was longer when I had a particle effect thing going on like Strength of Purpose or Arcane Power, and only a few seconds if I had no particle effect sustained powers going. Will see what it's like in b24 soon enough.

[Final Master]

Then you are probably running with too high partical density for your machine - perhaps try cutting it down to 50 or even 30 - don't worry, it just doesnt' look as 'potent' but you will still see everything.