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I had a sword and board fighter which was very boring after 12 hours. Then, on recommendation of this forum, I played a mage which was definitely more interactive. I got about 24 hours into the game before it became quite boring, but that was more due to quest structure, than actual class gameplay.

I believe the epson thing is from my printer being installed.

In device manager under disk drives, my SSD is listed second, however I have a EPSON storage usb device listed as first, however the boot order is from the SSD first. Would that order under device manager matter or am I grasping?

I kept switching ports for the SATA for the hard drives, then I decided to just plug in one hard drive for a night and see what would happen. After 24 hours, I didn't have any problems, so I plugged in my second one and then after a couple starts, it installed drivers for the second hard drive and has worked fine since which has been great as you can imagine with all the stuff going on. However, yesterday I got a blue screen and accidently clicked through it without reading what it was. And since then, I've had a lock up today where I need to go back and restart in safe mode and then restart and then it's fine. Not sure what's going on. I think the blue screen might have been from keeping too many windows open for an extended period of time, a few work programs, and then playing a game, maybe running the system out of memory, but the lock ups. Not quite sure. Funny enough, on top of that, my second monitor won't come out of power save mode, but I believe that's due to a fault vga to hdmi input cord just going bad, so I ordered another one. I would like to solve this lock up issue if it persists. When I got to my event viewer, I'm just seeing the same stuff happen right before and during lock up that I noted above. I will add that looking at the list of optional updates I need to install for Windows (Win 7), there is one for a Kernel-Mode Driver Framework version 1.11 for Windows 7, so that gives a little hope along with the other 70 updates.

Thanks everyone for the help. I see the icon now. Will be interesting to see how well it works!

What would this include? Because from what I've seen, if they've killed an enemy, they don't necessarily move on to the next one and I haven't seen one use a skill on their own.Patch notes http://forums.obsidian.net/blog/7/entry-186-update-notes-200/ Thank you. I knew I wasn't having memory problems, but from the patch notes, it appears that you can toggle the companion AI on and off, but it doesn't say how. Does anyone know how you would do this? I can't seem to find it in the options.

What would this include? Because from what I've seen, if they've killed an enemy, they don't necessarily move on to the next one and I haven't seen one use a skill on their own.

Well, I put down DA:I because after 22 hours, it was just feeling like a chore to play, so maybe I'll go back to it with renewed interest some time. Picked up my save from The Witcher 3 and just got to Skellege and just find the quests and explorations top notch. Honestly, these guys did in 5 years what some developers still can't do after multiple game releases. Also started a new game in Pillars of Eternity since the new patch and was wondering for those that have started again, how does party management go? I thought I read somewhere that your party members would need less management for some reason, however I haven't seen any change from pre-2.0 or am I thinking of a different game?

I wanted to check would this build still be viable with 2.0? I'm trying to look for a good melee cipher build for 2.0 but can't seem to find any.

Yes and also wands with dual wielding as well.

Recently on Twitter, it was stated as "soon" but that can be a long time in Dev time, but I would think a smart move would be to release during the kickstarter to let people see what they can do.

I did as well. I would think they'd have more popularity and advertisement if they had done the kick starter after releasing the enhanced edition but here's to hoping they do release it before the end of the kickstarted to garner more support towards the second half!

I actually played through this DLC last week and talked a little about it. I will say I still haven't completed the campaign, but heard that you could start the DLC after you reach Skyhold around level, so since I was level 12, I decided to try out it. I will say that the battles are considerably harder than anything I've seen in the campaign so far. You definitely to choose more strategy even on normal difficulty. The story is okay, nothing to remember past the end credits. You have two companions that travel with you throughout the campaign which took me a handful of hours. There are expeditions to prolong the DLC, but the one thing I will say was nice about the DLC was the loot, however all the loot that I found was for level 18 and up, so I couldn't even use it which was kind of odd, but you do get a bunch of schematics which could be helpful to others. The gameplay is pretty straightforward being that it's mainly corridors which makes sense being in mines. They really do pack a lot of story or lore into this DLC which was kind of disheartening. I haven't played the previous DLC, Jaws of Hakkon or whatever, but I was hoping for a little bit more from this DLC. Fine enough to play through, and if you're hankering for more gameplay, might as well, but if not and just want to check it out, definitely wait for a sale.

Well. I think I'm gonna switch my main hard drive to the second port. Leave the second hard drive unplugged for the time being and test it for the time being. Maybe it's the port. I had my old main plugged into the second port. So crossing my fingers. Thanks so far.

Now I just had a lock up, where I needed to hard reset and go through safe mode again. And every error I gave above then came after the restart took place. There isn't any preceeding the crash. Could it be faulty ports on the motherboard. Should I try switching Sata ports with my hard drives?

I did run that scannow command and nothing came up as a problem. Other errors that popped up after the system restarted include: Distributed COM DCOM got error "1084" attempting to start the service ShellHWDetection with arguments "" in order to run the server: {DD522ACC-F821-461A-A407-50B198B896DC} A few Service Control Manager errors The DHCP Client service depends on the Ancillary Function Driver for Winsock service which failed to start because of the following error: A device attached to the system is not functioning. The DNS Client service depends on the NetIO Legacy TDI Support Driver service which failed to start because of the following error: A device attached to the system is not functioning. The TCP/IP NetBIOS Helper service depends on the Ancillary Function Driver for Winsock service which failed to start because of the following error: A device attached to the system is not functioning. The Network Store Interface Service service depends on the NSI proxy service driver. service which failed to start because of the following error: A device attached to the system is not functioning. The Workstation service depends on the Network Store Interface Service service which failed to start because of the following error: The dependency service or group failed to start. The IP Helper service depends on the Network Store Interface Service service which failed to start because of the following error: The dependency service or group failed to start. The SMB MiniRedirector Wrapper and Engine service depends on the Redirected Buffering Sub Sysytem service which failed to start because of the following error: A device attached to the system is not functioning. The SMB 1.x MiniRedirector service depends on the SMB MiniRedirector Wrapper and Engine service which failed to start because of the following error: The dependency service or group failed to start. The SMB 2.0 MiniRedirector service depends on the SMB MiniRedirector Wrapper and Engine service which failed to start because of the following error: The dependency service or group failed to start. The Network Location Awareness service depends on the Network Store Interface Service service which failed to start because of the following error: The dependency service or group failed to start. The following boot-start or system-start driver(s) failed to load: AFD aswRdr aswRvrt aswSnx aswSP aswVmm DfsC discache NetBIOS NetBT nsiproxy Psched rdbss spldr tdx Wanarpv6 WfpLwf These all took place after the restart. Whenever I come upon the blinking cursor problem, I need to hard restart into safe mode and then restart into normal mode, otherwise it won't go past the blinking cursor the next time. Errors that took place before that application error I pasted the first time were a CAPI2 error stating Failed auto update retrieval of third-party root certificate from: <http://www.download.windowsupdate.com/msdownload/update/v3/static/trustedr/en/47BEABC922EAE80E78783462A79F45C254FDE68B.crt> with error: The specified server cannot perform the requested operation. Anything from this? Thank you for your time so far.

Thank you both for the feedback Looking at when I believe something took place. This appears to have been when it shut down. Faulting application name: Report32.exe, version: 9.1.2.2352, time stamp: 0x5d9046ea Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7600.16559, time stamp: 0x4ba9b29c Exception code: 0xc0000029 Fault offset: 0x000904be Faulting process id: 0xb38 Faulting application start time: 0x01d0dea68dcc0b12 Faulting application path: C:\Program Files (x86)\ACI32\Applications\Report32.exe Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ntdll.dll Report Id: 0b0ed17e-4ad0-11e5-9843-0026189f3a51 and then when I turned on, being the next error shown, it states The system has rebooted without cleanly shutting down first. This error could be caused if the system stopped responding, crashed, or lost power unexpectedly. Any thoughts on that?

Thanks for the heads up on this, I'm under Aministrative Events and I'm kind of clueless about what to look for

I recently decided to buy some SSD drives and replace my old hard drive since it was getting older. I ended up buying 2 250 GB Samsung hard drives. After installing them and reinstalling Windows 7, I have an odd problem. If I leave my computer unattended overnight, I come back in the morning and there's a black screen with a blinking cursor like a prompt. I've never had this problem before. Due to this, I reformatted and reinstall Windows again, however have the same problem. Does anyone have any thoughts on what could be the problem? I've tried googling quite a bit, but can't seem to find anything. My system is a AMD Phenom X4 965 Nvidia 750ti 8 GB Ram Any thoughts or help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

I decided I couldn't play DAI and The Witcher 3 at the same time so I started over on DAI because it's been out longer and Witcher is still being patched up. I've played for about 22 hours and just last night and just put it down for a bit due to feeling I wasn't progressing anything except fetch quests and clearing maps. Due to these two issues, the story became muddled almost and I know I could just stick to main quest line but main do I feel like I'm forcing myself to play. I then played The Witcher for an hour to keep the story fresh and man was that a mistake because that game excels as compared on all fronts. I may just say screw it and give up this latest playthroigh of DAI and enjoy gaming again by playing The Witcher but I'm still thinking DAI will turn around somewhere and be fun too. Lol

Which I'm assuming makes all of your gear obsolete

I started with a sword and board warrior and put about 12 hours into it and wasn't really enjoying it, however I've since switched to a mage and am at level 14 after 20 hours in and having a bit more fun with the game. I just completed the new Descent DLC which was alright, good for gear, but I find it odd how you're able to do the dlc after level 10, or after skyhold, however all the gear you find within the dlc is geared towards level 18-20 characters. Sure, they're all pretty purples, but you can use them. That was an odd choice, however I'm back to the main story for now and finally am picking my specialization. I decided to hold off on the Witcher for now as they patch it up and expansions come out; and just trying to complete one long RPG on the console at a time lol

I will definitely back this, along with purchasing a PS4 copy of Original Sin, alongside my pc copy. After buying a few copies for friends, I really want Larian to keep going with this latest engine and creating some more great games!

They did a great job with the graphical upgrade with unity 5. I look forward to that and the host of other changes they made.

Speaking this way, which game has pleaded you in the recent past? In the MMO department.