Last night I tried for almost two hours to be able to play. After wrestling with the dang disc not wanting to read for quite some time, I finally got lucky. I then loaded an old save, before I got anywhere near the council chambers. Before I even entered the castle to rescue Zandalor. I then replayed that whole portion of the game from the old save, but sure enough, same thing...the game locked up my computer as I approached the stairs going down after the teleport place.
If my disc would read, I'd keep trying to trouble shoot the game, but spending 25 minutes (easily) pulling the disc in and out of the drive trying to get lucky, only to have my game freeze, is just entirely too frustrating. I deleted all the files in folder that was mentioned (the dynamic stuff), i went back to a fairly old save...I can't think of anything else to try. I admit I am playing on a fairly old machine (AMD 750 with a Voodoo 3500) and I considered what was written in the technical FAQ...but that says RANDOM lock ups...and these are decidedly NOT random. It never locks in anyplace but the Council chamber, and almost always by a border of some sort. I think it's time to load up NWN or Fallout.
I'd like to thank everyone for their help. You guys are great and have a super community here.
Thanks again and maybe I'll try again after I've cooled down some...or purchased a new computer. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
