I've completed the cave (didn't kill the ogre, convinced him to move on) and am trying to level up just outside the cave - and I'm seeing frequent hangs while doing it .

 

Seems like I have about a 50/50 chance of it hanging when I click on the 'Level up' button - I'm basically having to save after leveling each character...   

 

VERY painful.  I'm getting very tired of having to force-quit and restart / reload...  I've spent maybe 10 minutes trying to level up my party so far...  reloaded at least 6 times, and I've only managed to level up 2 characters.

 

I also saw it hang once just while trying to get to the character screen.

 

 

 

As an additional note, I tried going back to the village and levelling up there - also no dice - this is 5 times in a row it crashed while trying to level my priest - the time before that I succeeded in leveling the priest, but it hung when I leveled up the next char...

I don't know if it is relevant or useful, but after turning in the ogre quest, I got a little further, I was able to level up my priest and rogue before it hung while trying to level the wizard.

 

I ran the 'Sample' option while inspecting the process from the Activity Manager, which seems to give a trace of which threads are open, etc.   Not sure whether it is useful, but I've attached it here.

 

If there are additional debugging or tracing steps I can run on the mac, let me know.   I have xcode installed, but not a very recent version.

Sample of PillarsOfEternity.txt

One more note on this - I just tried another play-through from a new character, and had the same behaviour - after I cleared out the Ogre caves and tried to level up, it hung while leveling up my wizard.   unfortunately I hadn't been saving the game, and I was left with a corrupt save game - at least the game has hung twice when I tried loading the auto-save.