Choose Blacksmithing or Enhanced Perception for a Dragon Mage?

[siddham 19]

I'm trying to decide if I should take Blacksmithing

Also Enhanced Perception

Would be grateful for any advice or links to threads or guides etc

Thanks

ps - playing a Dragon Mage

[siddham 19]

I haven't played in a while and had forgotten DMs don't get blacksmithing !

S

Edited February 23, 2016 by siddham

[Flix 5,116]

Yeah it's stupid that General Skills are cut off to so many classes, most people ignore them anyway, they could have at least made them available to all classes. The ones that are really appealing, Enhanced Perception, Bargaining, Blacksmith, end up being the ones your character can't take.

 

If you play Enhanced Spells Mod, I unlocked all General Skills for all classes, as well as improving the effects of Enhanced Perception and Bargaining skills.

[siddham 19]

If you play Enhanced Spells Mod, I unlocked all General Skills for all classes, as well as improving the effects of Enhanced Perception and Bargaining skills.

 

Interesting mod Modimus Prime.

I Might give it a try once I've completed vanilla, which I have yet to do; in spite of several attempts

mostly due I think to performance issues

The game is poorly optimised and needs far more than the recommended requirements to run well

But I keep coming back to it

There is something about the world and the stats and the loot system etc that grabs me

and the folks at Dark Matters have always been friendly & helpful

Edited February 26, 2016 by siddham

[Androdion 884]

For some added stability be sure to turn off Physx, it breaks the game. Also if you're running a 64-bit system have s2gs.exe and sacred2.exe run in Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode. And do install CM-Patch v.1.50 too, I've noticed the stability of the game increasing dramatically when it comes to random CTD. I still have the occasional "sacred2 client stopped working" crash but they are few and far between nowadays. If you happen to have an old GPU I'd recommend turning AA off too, it's really intensive on some older GPUs.

 

Hope that helps.

[siddham 19]

For some added stability be sure to turn off Physx, it breaks the game. Also if you're running a 64-bit system have s2gs.exe and sacred2.exe run in Windows XP SP3 compatibility mode. And do install CM-Patch v.1.50 too, I've noticed the stability of the game increasing dramatically when it comes to random CTD. I still have the occasional "sacred2 client stopped working" crash but they are few and far between nowadays. If you happen to have an old GPU I'd recommend turning AA off too, it's really intensive on some older GPUs.

 

Hope that helps.

 

That does help; thank you

What is s2gs.exe?

 

I have Windows 7 64 bit and the CM-Patch v.1.50 and the game runs fine as is thus far on my i3 (3.7GHz) and GTX750ti

I have Physx off

I had a Core2Duo (2.4 GHz) in my old system and it didn't have the cycles to run Sacred2 adequately

Pretty sure it was the CPU which was the bottleneck on my old system

I've only played a couple of hours; testing and setting things up and refreshing my memory re the menus etc

I went into Sloeford with one character where my old machine used to stutter pretty bad and all was smooth

So looking good thus far

[Androdion 884]

It's just another exe from the game's engine. I browsed a lot through the Steam boards in search for stability fixes since my retail FA 2.40 didn't crash as often as the Gold edition I acquired on Steam. Some fixes help others don't, but running the game's exe files in compatibility mode when in a 64-bit system does improve things a bit. The CM-patch though is your best alternative for increased stability, though even with it I'm still experiencing random crashes in the usual places (the Jungle for instance tends to crash a lot when I mow down too many Garema).

 

Point is, the game will eventually CTD here and there. There's no turning around that fact. Just activate monoliths as often as you can. Sometimes I roam a bit too much without doing it and then bam...

[Flix 5,116]

You can also press the quicksave button from time to time and then when you reload you will spawn back wherever you were standing when you pressed it. This is helpful if you need to quit and you're somewhere far away from a monolith. You won't have to retrace your steps.

[Androdion 884]

That should work in theory, but alas it doesn't. At least when I play my game doesn't act that way. Sometimes it's even worst, as I'll hit quick save and when the game crashes my progress is reset to the last activated monolith. It's weird I know but I have to bear with it.

[Flix 5,116]

It only works if you hit quicksave just before exiting the game. I suppose with a crash it wouldn't work at all.

[Androdion 884]

You got me there.

[siddham 19]

It's just another exe from the game's engine. I browsed a lot through the Steam boards in search for stability fixes since my retail FA 2.40 didn't crash as often as the Gold edition I acquired on Steam. Some fixes help others don't, but running the game's exe files in compatibility mode when in a 64-bit system does improve things a bit. The CM-patch though is your best alternative for increased stability, though even with it I'm still experiencing random crashes in the usual places (the Jungle for instance tends to crash a lot when I mow down too many Garema).

 

Point is, the game will eventually CTD here and there. There's no turning around that fact. Just activate monoliths as often as you can. Sometimes I roam a bit too much without doing it and then bam...

My experience is that the digital versions from Steam or Gog are more stable than the retail version from discs with downloaded patches; even on my old machine there was a noticeable improvement - although not quite enough.

I have the gog version installed and so far it is running smooth and well. If I run into crashes etc I will try changing the compatibility; so thanks

That's a good hint about the quicksave; thanks.