Almost every time I boot up this game it takes an incredibly long time to even start doing anything.
I click the icon. The game boots with the obsidian logo. I escape or click on the screen and it goes to the load screen.
Here is where the issues starts.
I load a game and the splash screen pops up and it just hangs with no cursor or anything.
I press my mouse it informs me the game has the error apphangb1 and would I like to wait.
I wait then I get the hand icon on screen and the splash screen text drops out of frame.
Again if I click the mouse I get the apphangb1 error and I wait.
Finally I am in game...
It can take up to 2 minutes or more for this process.
I have only 5 saves and auto saves disabled.
I am only in act 2.
My loads can be obscenely long or just normal.
Occasionally there is some remedy that occurs when I alt tab at a certain time and then for some reason the program gains proper access and I do not get apphangb1 or long load times. However I am unable to figure out what I do that forces the program to take control of the processes and load properly.
I have the GoG version.
SInce I can get both normal load times and incredibly long load times (with the same data) this is not a problem with my machine.
Is there a solution to this problem?