anyone familiar w/this bug?

[eom]

I put it in that other thread, but I'm kind of concerned about it.

apparently, accessing the resource/goods trading screen causes all spawns to cease, and everything currently on the map stops moving (including caravans).

we're about 12th level and it just started happening.

[darthelema0101]

edit from admin: removed color formating.

I have seen enough now with this game to realize that the install is vulnerable to corruption if certain things are running in the background during install. Unfortunately, I am unable to identify WHAT would cause the install to corrupt and am not willing to spend hours at a time to clear every service and startup item in the computer that I was using to play the game of culpability.

As I advised somewhere else (the GameBanshee forums (http://www.gamebanshee.com/forums/neverwinter-nights-2-80/)), remove the program, set the computer in near safe-mode and re-install then reset the computer to just the minimum necessary to get the update downloaded and installed before setting the computer to normal and playing the game.

I have seen corrupted installs with other software (working tech support both phone bank and e-mail and for both Windows and NON-Microsoft software) and know that certain programs are NOTORIOUS for being incompatible with installations. Those programs can be fatal to installs even if they are turned off after the computer has booted up because processes are started which cannot be accessed by the user - those processes must be prevented from loading at all. The most infamous of these is Norton's Anti-Virus; the program works great at virus protection and not so great at allowing installations to work.

I saw one installation that would not complete without corruption (in Win98) without taking the computer all the way into safe-mode and running the install from the hard-drive itself. I never identified the reason for the corruption in that instance.

If you have Norton's AV (probably including web security) installed, remove the program from your system following their website advice to TOTALLY remove it before continuing.
remove NWN2
set the computer to reboot with almost nothing running
run "msconfig"
go to the services tab and disable anything that that is not MANDATORY for your system to operate making sure to keep the windows installer enabled.
go to the startup tab and disable anything that is not required for the system to operate.
restart the computer and reinstall NWN2. (if the install doesn't work, go back to msconfig and enable the windows installer service and then restart the system again.)
after the reinstall completes, go back to msconfig and enable only those options that are required to access the internet (HTTP, DNS, network logons, but not "remote" anything) for the autoupdater to run.
after the autoupdater is finished, go back into msconfig and enable all options that you previously disabled and restart the 'puter

[eom]

and it's gone as quickly and mysteriously as it appeared.