New Anvilite with ?'s, long read, sorry Options

[Hideous the W...]

Hi all, love the mod so far but I've only just begun. Here's what I've got

Protag - Necromancer lvl 12
Kensai lvl 11 with Joril's Dagger & Lilacor and 1 * in staves for crushing (+3 martial staff) and piercing (+2 staff spear)
Wizard Slayer>Thief lvl 9/11 +3 long sword & Sword of Balduran (+3 club)
Nalia lvl 12 I'm going to drop her for Imoen later on
Ranger>Cleric lvl 8/11 with FoA
Vagrant lvl 10 with Frostreaver and Mencar's hammer

I'm wondering where to head to next. I think my options are:

Trademeet - Troll mound, Ogre's Tower or Trademeet Tomb
Windspear Hills - I haven't touched anything yet except giving Dryads back
Watcher's Keep - but I have Kitthlix so I'm worried about the Spider Queen encounter I've read about
Unseeing Eye quest - I have no spell shield for Beholders and that's been my only defense in the past
Rakshasa - in the Temple sewers
Planar Sphere
Planar Prison
Temple Sewers party with Gaius
and probably some I've forgotten.

I just did the Slaver ship and found that to be very fun, however if one wanted to they could just wait for Assassins to keep spawning and restock their healing potions.
The only thing I'm bummed about is that I have an issue that was posted in this thread - http://forums.blackwyrmlair.net/index.php?showtopic=3190
I've tried all the lower settings and restarts and defrag but I still get the walk 3 steps and pause choppiness. I believe, but I will eventually go back and test it, that the choppiness only started once I entered the Copper Corronet. Up until that I was fine but now it persists.

I think I'm gonna go down to the bridge in the Unseeing Eye quest and see if I can handle those Beholders and then clear some of first level of Firkraggs' joint. But after that I dunno.

Thanks in advance.

[Baronius]

2) When buying a gembag the game starts lagging, and dropping that again makes the game normal - again

If I correctly interpret your words, it happens when (or directly after) buying it -- i.e. as soon as it's moved to your inventory. In this case, the lag might imply that the game checks all slots of a (gem) bag even if it's empty. Unlike in case of other bags, as those players (also) confirmed in the linked topic.

So it's possible that the Gem Bag has a different in-game structure than the other bags (provided your result is repeatable -- performance may also depend on the system status at the moment of your test). By the way, I suppose it doesn't happen with other types of similar containers (bag of holding, scroll case), does it?

[Shaitan]

2) When buying a gembag the game starts lagging, and dropping that again makes the game normal - again

If I correctly interpret your words, it happens when (or directly after) buying it -- i.e. as soon as it's moved to your inventory. In this case, the lag might imply that the game checks all slots of a (gem) bag even if it's empty. Unlike in case of other bags, as those players (also) confirmed in the linked topic.

So it's possible that the Gem Bag has a different in-game structure than the other bags (provided your result is repeatable -- performance may also depend on the system status at the moment of your test). By the way, I suppose it doesn't happen with other types of similar containers (bag of holding, scroll case), does it?

I haven't gotten a Bag of holding yet. I will test next time with the scrollcase.

Raven: Intel duo core 1,6 GHz 2MB cache, 256 MB Geforce, 1 GB DDR 2. It's a XP on a laptop.

The difference of having a gembag or not is significant, but it could be due to my PC or some scripts - I don't know.

My Weidu.log:

// Log of Currently Installed WeiDU Mods
// The top of the file is the 'oldest' mod
// ~TP2_File~ #language_number #component_number // [Subcomponent Name -> ]Component Name
~XAN/SETUP-XAN.TP2~ #0 #0 // Xan NPC MOD for Baldur's Gate II, v7
~XAN/SETUP-XAN.TP2~ #0 #3 // Install alternate class for Xan? -> Change Xan's class to Sorcerer
~XAN/SETUP-XAN.TP2~ #0 #5 // BG1-style flaming swords
~AURENASEPH/SETUP-AURENASEPH.TP2~ #0 #0 // Auren Aseph V6.1 for BG2:ToB
~TOD/SETUP-TOD.TP2~ #0 #0 // Tower Of Deception Mod (Requires Throne Of Bhaal)
~TOD/SETUP-TOD.TP2~ #0 #1 // Improved Astral Shard Guardian
~SETUP-BANTERPACK.TP2~ #0 #0 // Pocket Plane Banter Pack for BG2: Shadows of Amn
~IEPBANTERS/IEPBANTERS.TP2~ #0 #5 // Install Banter Accelerator? How much time would you like in between NPC banters in-game? -> 20 Minutes
~SETUP-BANTERPACK.TP2~ #0 #2 // Pocket Plane Banter Pack for BG2: Throne of Bhaal
~SETUP-EASE.TP2~ #0 #3 // True Grand Mastery (extra half-attack, etc.) (Baldurdash)
~SETUP-EASE.TP2~ #0 #6 // Wear Magical Armor AND Magic Rings (etc.)
~SETUP-EASE.TP2~ #0 #9 // Un-Nerfed THAC0 Table, Saving Throws, Grand-Mastery, and Arcane, Divine Spell Progression (Blucher)
~SETUP-EASE.TP2~ #0 #10 // XP Cap Remover
~SETUP-EASE.TP2~ #0 #15 // Bonus Merchants (Baldurdash)
~SETUP-EASE.TP2~ #0 #18 // Imoen ToB Dialogue Fix
~SETUP-EASE.TP2~ #0 #20 // Female Edwina
~SETUP-EASE.TP2~ #0 #21 // Romance: Bug Fixes (required for later components).
~SETUP-IMPROVEDANVIL.TP2~ #0 #0 // Improved Anvil for SOA & TOB

This post has been edited by Shaitan: Mar 28 2008, 06:10 AM

[Raven]

Raven: Intel duo core 1,6 GHz 2MB cache, 256 MB Geforce, 1 GB DDR 2. It's a XP on a laptop.

The difference of having a gembag or not is significant, but it could be due to my PC or some scripts - I don't know.

Hmm, my computer is very similar to yours, actually it's slightly older. Maybe I do not keep as many gems/scrolls/potions on my party? I think I tend to sell most of them right away.