Okay, I did this over with the bug thread, but it seems to be lost in the 23 pages of stuff...


Here is exactly what is happening:

Made it past the demon securing the entrance to the source temple thingie in the Phantom Forest. Save the game and left any progress to the next day.

I continue on and decide to take on that yoyo that steals voices. First stop! Head back to the homestead to buy a few items for the trip.

Returned and noted something extremely odd? The person in the "lead" position runs/walks normally. Everyone else makes an attempt to follow, but all they do is run in place making a tiny bit of progress until they come to a full stop.

I nursed all the dingalings to the boss guy I was going to fight. (We are all level 19. Should be epic!) And once the dialog changed to the fight, The dingbats take several minutes to get into formation. Again..running in place....

Finally get to the physical part, and I went for an area spell. The NPC did his nice dance/action moves... Took off the points and the spell went into cool down. Nothing happened?!? I then noticed about the same time when I got hit by the summoned guys-- Impact....wait...wait...wait...Then the blood splat and health points came off a few moments later.

I loaded an early save and the guys move around fine....Unless I teleport. Then all this repeats again....... I even teleported around to different points to see if I could pin point it. No luck...just laggggggggggg.

I did not start the new game yet. That's next. Considering I can reload to an earlier time and suddenly any teleporting out/in causes this issue? Something isn't kosher with this...

Anyone else have the NPC's just running in place and casting spells that do not have any effect?

The downloadable tool to peek at things only reported it couldn't ID my direct X version. (it's 11+ DxDiag did wonders) And considering the game has worked fine for the 70++ hours I've been playing it......

So ideas are welcome. Otherwise this is pointless to spend another 70+ hours getting this far into the game just to have this bug hit again.

S-