I discovered something yesterday that I thought I would pass on. In case some one else has some of the same issues I did.
I was doing the The Murders in the Rue Lanilor quest. I made to the hidden dungeon and made my way to the room with Rotha. I stepped into the room and the fight started. Only thing was I got hit by something that pushed me back outside the room and the door closed and locked. Hence I could not get back in. Since you need an item from Rotha to advance the quest I had a big problem.
After running around and doing some other quests I finally decided the only way to get past that door again was using the cheat console in the Directors Cut version of the game. I had been playing using the original version.
Using the console I moved myself directly to Rotha and got the item I needed. I saved my game at that point and tried an experiment. I hit Esc to pause the game and then Alt Tabbed out and it worked with no crash like I got playing the normal mode. Just to be sure it worked every time I tried it a few more times and I even found the game didn't crash when exiting like the normal mode did.
The only thing I have not tested is the video cut scene at the end of ED to see if it works fine in the Directors Cut version. I am planning a couple more play throughs of ED using more Mage and Archer skills instead of going mostly Warrior like I did in this first play through. So, I will pass on what I find when I get that far in the game playing all the way through in Directors Cut mode.
But at this point the best advice I can pass on is play the game in Directors Cut mode and just avoid the original mode.
