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Almost every time my friend and I load in, the player joining loses his stats (all at 5 except for gear).

We've tried multiple work arounds, and the one that seems to work the most is unequipping all items from all characters, saving, going to main menu, and then reloading the game.

Lately that's stopped working also. My friend's PC isn't relatively new, so load times take 5+ minutes for every area. Very frustrating in combination with the aforementioned bug.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks!

Has your friend tried disabling their firewall, or making an exception for D:OS? Firewalls have been known to cause long load times (in general they should shut down all non-essential programs before starting the game). Unless the system is near or below the minimum specifications, 5 minutes seems a little long. They can check that in a single player game, if they don't want to do so when online.


The problem with the stats is a known issue that is currently being looked into, but so far has been difficult to reliably reproduce. Usually people with this problem have found that just reloading the save, perhaps multiple times, will get it to work.

More information about both systems may be useful. Email supportdos@larian.com, and I'll add that and your description above to the bug report for this issue.

For Windows you can use the D:OS support tool to generate a report.zip file, which will contain system and game information, as well as your saved games. To reduce the file size, the host can delete all but one save from the zip, and the client all saves (if they also have a single player game going, for example).

For Mac, I don't know if Yosemite moved anything around, but to get system specs in Mavericks you can use 'system report' from the 'about this mac' apple menu item or the 'system information' app (utilities folder); in earlier versions use 'System Profiler'.
Saves are in a folder something like:
~/Documents/Larian Studios/Divinity Original Sin/PlayerProfiles/<ProfileName>/Savegames

When I play alone, or load up the game before he connects, it takes me about 8 seconds each load. When he joins it's suddenly 5+ minutes. I'm sure it's his computer because when he does single player it takes awhile also. Not too concerned about that though.

I don't believe he has a firewall or anti-virus, and I know I don't.

Anyways, I do feel like it's a connection thing. If I assign the problematic character to myself, his/her stats are fine. Then I assign him/her back and it's still all 5 for him. Is there anyways you can force a stat check (compare it to the hosts file) every time the page is opened?

Thanks anyways! If anyone knows any workarounds, would be greatly appreciated. We thought unequipping everything and saving fixed the issue, but last night after doing that he still had no stats. Pretty frustrating.