Hi. I have been playing
and
for about a year now and having a great time. Never had much of a problem, and any real questions I had I could find answers to in the forum pages.
But now I have a real technical sticking point. I am going through the Act 4 Battlefield topside, Hardcore difficulty, and it keeps resetting. It seems to be something to do with my summoning dollies. I have invested 12 skill points in the Extra Level, Extra Radius, and Extra Skill Slot for the dolls so they could be dangerous. I am on Hardcore, and it seems like when the demon doll gets killed by an enemy Magic Hammer the game halts for moments and sometimes quits altogether. This is not the worst: The skeleton has reset to level 1 and the demon has reset to level 8.
I did make a save when I first entered Act4 (I learned from others who only had two quicksaves
), but I have done too much and got too many goodies to want to start over. Can somebody save my dollies? I had both of them up to level 9, with the skellie firing a 10000+ GP crossbow doing over 150 damage, and the demon had a lot more health and strength. I outfitted them with the best belts and jewellry with charms, and for the skel armor with speed, sight, and initiative bonuses (mostly hand-me-downs from the human). (
How I wish the demon and ranaar could use any armor and ranged weapons-they get killed easy in melee...I had plenty of great unused stuff sold off)
I might even be desperate enough to go so far as to try the hex-editing as described by the all-knowing Raze (kidding), and checked that the Hackman link works, but the instructions don't seem to cover editing summoning dolls, but it seems a bit too much like a first year med student attempting emergency brain surgery from a textbook.
BTW: I am using the 1.49 patch, 800x600 resolution on a pc set for 1024x768 @ 16 bit color. I am running Win XP Pro (Vista sux) on an Amd 2800+ on a Winfast 760GXT8MG Mobo that uses a Sis Mirage 760 Graphics Chip. I have the latest drivers for everything. The sound part is Analog Devices (not RealTek), but I don't think that's a problem (even though once in a GREAT while the sound just stops for no reason, whether I'm playing or not: all I have to do is go into standby and then start back up and everything works fine. Seems like Windows Ghost--thank you Mr. Bill!) I have not installed or uninstalled any programs lately, and I have good virus, firewall, and spyware protection updated daily and run full scans daily, and do the defrag and maintennance regularly.
I have tried deleteing the files from the Dynamic folder, as I read. I tried a few other fix-all's, but the change is already taken and the slowing and sometimes resetting in big battles continues.
