siddham 19 Posted February 22, 2016 Share Posted February 22, 2016 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 1 Link to comment
siddham 19 Posted February 23, 2016 Author Share Posted February 23, 2016 (edited) I haven't played in a while and had forgotten DMs don't get blacksmithing ! S Edited February 23, 2016 by siddham 1 Link to comment
Flix 5,116 Posted February 23, 2016 Share Posted February 23, 2016 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. 1 Link to comment
siddham 19 Posted February 26, 2016 Author Share Posted February 26, 2016 (edited) 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 1 Link to comment
Popular Post Androdion 884 Posted February 26, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted February 26, 2016 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. 2 Link to comment
siddham 19 Posted February 27, 2016 Author Share Posted February 27, 2016 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 Link to comment
Androdion 884 Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 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... Link to comment
Flix 5,116 Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 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. 1 Link to comment
Androdion 884 Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 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. Link to comment
Flix 5,116 Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 It only works if you hit quicksave just before exiting the game. I suppose with a crash it wouldn't work at all. Link to comment
Androdion 884 Posted February 27, 2016 Share Posted February 27, 2016 You got me there. Link to comment
siddham 19 Posted February 27, 2016 Author Share Posted February 27, 2016 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. Link to comment
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