P.Val

Strange things happened to me as well. - I defeated Fort Deadlight early on, but spared Benweth's life. - Then I got the missive from Aeldys, but didn't pay her a visit. - Then I cleared up Magran's Teeth, and the first time I've personally seen Aeldys was when she barged in at the debriefing at the royal palace. - Then I went to Dunnage (because the Valians wanted me to have a chat with them), met with Furrante, he gave me two questlines: go to Crookspur and talk to their leader, and to hunt down the ghost ship. After I left Dunnage, I immediately got two missives: one from Furrante, telling me where to go for the ghost ship (strangely, it doesn't appear as a quest, the "Symbols of Death" is closed after I gave the info about the undead paladin), and one from Aeldys, who wrote she regrets I didn't pay her a visit the first time she invited me (so the devs had taken that into account!). - So I went to Deadlight to meet Aeldys, I even prepared her favorite candy, but she is nowhere to be found! In the Command room, there are desks with maps, she's not there. There is a side room with the fireplace with many discarded nutshells, so I assume it's her room, because candied nuts are her favorite. But she's not there either. I never ever set foot on Crookspur yet, so those quests should not have been progressed. Did I miss something, or is it a bug? (Edit: I've read Furrante's missive again, and I realized he organized a meeting first before going for the ghost ship... so I went back to Dunnage, and I found out why Aeldys wasn't at her base: she was tied up at that meeting. I still keep this information for any others who happen to get baffled by this same order of events)

Update: from the NVIDIA homepage this driver list I tried at first only goes mack to March 2021 which is too new and crashed the game: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/drivers/ However, there is another link to drivers, not accessible from the main page, which has earlier drivers: https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx I picked up one from 2018, when this game was launched, and it works. However, it would still be nice if the game worked with recent drivers too.

I've been playing this game without issues. I even played it earlier today. But now I updated my graphics drivers (I haven't updated them in many years, and another game had problems due to that) And since then, Deadfire crashes instantly on startup, not even showing the menu. It only shows a blank screen, and it seems to be windowed. Before that, the game launched immediately full screen. The driver I installed today was from Sep 20, 2021. I tired going back, but sadly, the earliest driver offered for download is from March 2021, and the game crashes with it as well. The driver I successfully played the gamer with, must be very old. Luckily, I have a dxdiag saved from a few days ago. The old dxdiag has Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950M Driver Version: 10.18.13.5384 Driver Date/Size: 11/17/2015 13:21:34 The current one is Driver Version: 27.21.14.6589 Driver Date/Size: 3/26/2021 11:05:48 I also attached the error log. I could not find my original driver in official sources anyway, so if that would be the only solution, I'd have to risk downloading a 2015 driver from who knows where, possibly malware-infested. Is there a chance to run the game with any recent-ish driver? error.log output_log.txt