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[Jarno Mikkola]

Do what you have discribed.
Do it single player ot multiplayer it doesn't matter.
Now,, Enter a building.

You need to reset the character order when you load a save game IN MULTIPLAYER GAME... n single player, the player sets the order with the drag and drop... So save the game, set the character order, and then enter the building(So no re-loading the game)... and the character will be in the order they should be inside the building... they will be positioned in the default two by three rows if there's open room for it...

Question... did you move the character pictures ? As you were supposed to... of course if your game lags so heavily that you cannot do that, then it's a problem ...

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 29 October 2011 - 06:28 AM.

[Jarno Mikkola]

Also. Do all the different storage items in the game work the same way, or is there one or more that don't cause this problem?

Well, the donkey mod actually gives you a "party member" that carries bags with it, it doesn't take a party member slot though... just like a real mule... and before you ask, the reason why the bags cause a lot of problems on party members is because the game has scripts that check if the party has items, and thus it also checks the stores associated with the bags they carry ... and he more items you have that have stores, the worse the problem gets.
Now, you could just drop the bags to a container in a house in the Berecost, and you would be relieved of the burden... just make sure you remember where you dropped the bags and that there's no alarms sounded when you later return to the stash (so it's not originally locked container).

Yes, I have tried the entrance thing...

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 30 October 2011 - 04:59 AM.

[Jarno Mikkola]

I have tried "a pack animal" mod in the past. Couldn't keep it alive. Kept running away from where I was at when a fight started, (that would seem like a good thing) but it always seemed to run into something else that would kill it. Ended up having to assign a character to do nothing but protect it.

I believe this one cannot be killed... I read it vanishes for a little bit, and it has an item that makes it un-kill-able.

Also, I already have a Wolf familiar. Will I still be able to have the pack Mule and will having them reduce the number of summond creatures I will be able to have/control?

If I remember right, you should still have the 5 normal slots for summons and 1 avatar(Deva/Planetar) available ...

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 30 October 2011 - 08:10 AM.

[Fouinto]

I searched on terms like "game slowdown" before I posted my thread and got nothing but low and behold those exact words are used in the W_packmule support topic.

Do I have to register/sign in to do searches?? Nothing that I search on returns any results. Really want to read up on the Gauntlets of The Drow. Put them on Branwen and she developed an 80% spell failure rate.

Search feature is broken on this forum.
You'd better use google and enter for example : "game slowdown site:www.shsforums.net" without the quote.
BTW, you can try to search "stuttering site:www.shsforums.net"...

Hope this helps.

Edited by Fouinto, 31 October 2011 - 09:22 AM.

[aardvark1]

I was getting the same issues and even after i dropped all the bags on my 1 game, the molasses lag never left. I had to delete the save as the game was totally unplayable. I think some of the issues(based on observation as well as trial and error) have to do with;

1) The sound file that comes with the donkey mod you buy at the friendly arms in seems to cause problems as well as being too loud!! It must have been recorded on too high a volume and makes my speakers sceeech. The donkey i used in this mod was limited to 100 items and never died. It fought until it took a certain amount of damage then would disapear for a short time.

2) While my girls are working on fixing BWP for me, i started a new game to test a few things out. I avoided any mod npc's and restricted my use of bags to 2 gem bags, 1 potion bag and 1 scroll case. I had no stuttering after the nashkel mines like i had on my 1st game and it stayed relatively stable through some of the other maps i did to build up lvls. Then for no reason at all, i started to stutter a bit, on the temple map. Nothing drastic, just a tiny bit of stutter. Then as an experiment i then tried to hire the npc called gavin? from the temple near Beregost and immediately my stutter went nuts. So it seems that at least this npc and maybe others i haven't tried cause stutter(i do believe one of the bullets in the install faq mentions something about that).

Kind of a bummer to have all these npc mods and not being able to use them . If all i wanted was the BG2 interface while playing Bg1 and a few small, stable mods, (on the chance that my girls can't fix my issues....1 issue my grand-daughter mentioned was my less than stellar vid card ((not ati's "finest moment" series of cards, the X series. Mine is an X1650 on this computer while on my new computer i run 2X 2mb ati 5850's in crossfire)). What would you folks suggest? Just a bare minimum install? I can't remember as i type this what the other 2 options were before the "standard" one i chose. Maybe one of the other options bgtutu i think it's called?

I hope this made sense as i just came home after an overnighter for some chemotherapy and it tends to really mess me up for a few days afterwards.

Edited by aardvark1, 02 November 2011 - 09:54 AM.

[i30817]

It's probably a script constantly checking the inventory.

If you were technically oriented, i'd direct you to Bigg's tool:

http://www.shsforums...ing-stuttering/

but it's fairly complex (i never even tried to use it when i had stutter on enemy spawn problems because of bgspawn (just quit using that).

BTW, i don't use the mule either.

Sorry about your health mister. If you'd like a stabler experience i'd cut down on the amount of non-rule-mods severely.

Edited by i30817, 02 November 2011 - 12:56 PM.

[Jarno Mikkola]

If you were technically oriented, i'd direct you to Bigg's tool:

http://www.shsforums...ing-stuttering/

Why ? Cause the same but better is the LStest I have uploaded to the MMFAQ the forum has pinned here ... as you don't have to be technically inclined too make it work !
Read the 4.23.1... the base links there(4.23), but as the all inclusive is better for most cases... I uploaded it to the thread.

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 02 November 2011 - 03:08 PM.