When I try to go into the Arena Sub-level, the game will try to load it, but then I'm met with a black screen with nothing but the cursor and music playing (which also eventually stops).

I have tried everything to get this to work - I've verified the file integrity (twice), uninstalled and reinstalled (twice), updated my graphics card drivers, run this on a lower resolution, etc. Nothing has worked and I can't advance this game any further because of it. The game was working perfectly fine up until this point (some minor annoyances with performance, but overall, nothing game breaking for me).

Here's my output log: https://www.dropbox.com/s/t1afjid584ynhnn/output_log.txt?dl=0

Thank you!

I have exactly the same problem. My game freezes everytime i try too enter the Arena Sub-Level. I tried everything to get this to work without any succes so far. Now i am stuck in the game.

Same problem here. Hope it fixes soon.

Same problem. Since this is a game breaking bug, it should have high priority in my opinion.

 

I tried the lowest graphics settings, as well as starting with and without importing POE1 saves - the game still hangs up while loading the arena beneath the Engwithian Ruins (the cursor appears and then it freezes).

 

Here is another save game and my dxdiag to speed up the fixing:

 

http://www.filedropper.com/marab7b1a4a9-401b-45b0-b5cb-5cc28e094ab5autosave0

http://www.filedropper.com/dxdiag_11

 

Also, and this may be related, loading saves from the Engwithian Ruins also often freezes the game in the same way.

Hello all!

 

Thank you for posting, and appreciate the files added. This is currently bugged and being investigated by the devs.

 

Best,

 

-Caleb

People found a workaround with the console:

https://forums.obsidian.net/topic/97587-entering-engwithan-digsite-arena-sub-level-causes-freeze/

 

If you use the console to load the arena from OUTSIDE the Engwithian Ruins, then it works, So apparently, the problem is that the preloaded Engwithian Ruins files interfere with the loading of the arena.

even after patch 1.1, I still can't enter the sub-level. it still freezes. 

Any progress on this yet? I am experiencing the exact same issue...

This is happening to me also.