All NPCs in Grymforge are missing/Invisible??? help

[sodypops]

Got to the Adamantine Forge in Baldur's gate, didn't use it yet, went back to do other stuff and explore other areas and was feeling weird about it feeling so empty but hadn't noticed yet.

Clicked on a gate to the elevator where dialogue with an NPC started warning me not to go up without a certain lantern, when dialogue ended noticed the NPC isnt actually there. Went back to town and ALL npcs are gone and missing? I save often so loaded past few saves, most of them have all NPCs missing - this feels game breaking. I left Grymforge to check other areas and NPCs are there but not in Grymforge.

Earlier save versions where NPCs were there arent there anymore. I had to go to a save from around when I first arrived. Thats 4+ hours of progress if not more gone :/ I really dont want to go that far back and redo anything, especially if its going to happen again. Can anyone help? Know a solution? maybe Im crazy and this is part of it but the dialogue with that one NPC that triggered out of no where makes me think theyre all invisible to me

[sodypops]

To note when I say left to check other areas I mean that I took the boat out back to that mushroom colony with the mindflayer and they were still there

[Gruumshi]

Yep same for me. I also can't get the forge back up and my hireling is also not visible anymore.... I am done with Grymforge for now so I don't mind the NPCs there, but that I can't see a character I need to controll sucks big time.

[ShadowFlame]

Got the same Problem except It happened after i was done with the first map.

[ShadowFlame]

so for me its about 20-25hours of progress gone because i did EVERYTHING on the first Map...

[Rafs]

It's not just NPC's in Grymforge, I see that certain character models are invisible in baldur's gate as well as Shadowheart's backstory once you get to know her a lot better. I thought this was only an issue that I was getting, but I guess I'm not the only one. It is kind of annoying to talk to or fight invisible models.

[Rafs]

Oh I figured out sort of what the issue is for me, it is a DirectX 11 issue it seems. Switch to Vulkan and it looks like those certain NPC models are now visible. Oh my hat, I sort of just ruined half the game for myself using DX11, oh well. It is only my first play-through, so looking forward to a hopefully better experience with the second time I play the game with different choices.

[Kelset]

It happened to me as well at the grymforge, but I was able to do the whole forge thing, and kill the elemental of fire to get the necklace that was the only NPC I saw along with the forge golem.

I managed to leave the area and proceed anyways, I saw some dialoge lines from invisible characters near Seer's body at the collapse and I moved on.

[Rafs]

Yep it does not stop you from progressing, it is just annoying especially during cutscenes and conversation. Select Vulkan on the launcher for the time being. Hopefully this works for everyone experiencing the same issue.

[Ordinary Dark]

did a logn rest by chance?