ok, it happened again. on my 4th character, in my 4th installation. i played 30 minute game or less and the game crashed. loading from my latest saved freezes my pc. tried loading previous saves, still the same.

maybe i forgot to press R(always run mode) since my character was moving quite slowly and guess what?, the game didn't freeze. i tried it on my lastest save and it work. i can move my character around. however, when if press R the game freezes. then i tried it all on my saves and the results are if the "always run mode" is activated the game freezes, but if the "always run mode" is deactivated so that my character is only walking the game won't lock up or freeze.

so with this in mind, i created a new character(5th). turning "always run mode" off, i moved my newly created character around joram's cellar and outside his house. no problem(s) encountered. then turning "always run mode" on, to see if the game freezes as all my 4th character saves had done, but it didn't. again no problems there. weird, thought i. so again i tried to load my saves from my 4th character to see if the game would still freeze and it did. if run mode is off, no freezing, but if it is on, then the game freezes.

freaking weird, thought i again. so once more i created a new character(6th) to test if my 5th character was just a fluke. following the same procedure, run mode off, then run mode on, the result was like that of my 5th character: no problems encountered. but i used the same procedure to my 4th character saves, the game freezes.

the only solution i found so far for DD is reinstalling it. but it has side effect. my pc would now recognize if DD is installed or not thus reinstalling it again is like adding another 2 gigs into my hard drive.