So I got this game free a few sales ago just by buying stuff. I played a few hours of it with no problems and now it just freezes up all the damn time - in towns during dialogues, at the ends of battles, whenever! I looked it up and it seems like this was happening to tons of people when the game came out. As everyone else reported, there is no way out of these freezes besides a hard shut-down of the game in Task Manager. Back then, the devs were suggesting all kinds of convoluted workarounds that all boiled down to the end user making all sorts of adjustments on their system.

Well, sorry, but my rig plays literally every other game I want to play with no hassles and I'm not going to jump through that many hoops or go through weird or extreme measures just to play this one. It seems reasonably fun but, come on already. I would give you complete system specs but why bother, it seems like this was just never dealt with. I'm on Win 7, 64-bit, 16 GB RAM, NVIDIA card.

So anybody have an actual fix for this? I already messed around with compatibility mode in the .exe file.


[EDIT] Well I may have fixed the problem by adding these command line switches to the .exe shortcut: -d3d9 -force-gfx-direct
I found those over at Steam and not here, so maybe it will help someone else. Only played a couple of battles and gone in and out of town and some dialogues, so far so good.