Inventory Item Dragging Bug

[Safety Rabbit]

Anyone else have a bug where if you drag an inventory item to an equipment slot it hard-locks the game requiring termination via task manager? It has only been happening since the last patch. I'm not sure if it's only in the loot/stash screen, but that's where it always seems to happen. I would guess it's always a problem, but you would be most likely to use drag/drop in the loot/stash as double-click is used to transfer an item to the other inventory rather than equip.

Reproduction steps:
- Open your stash
- Drag an item from the player's inventory over the top of another item as though to swap
- Game freezes before you let go of the mouse, as soon as it passes over a slot which would be a valid slot for the dragged item. Only seems to trigger if replacing an item, not dragging to an empty slot

Workaround:
- Clear the slot first, then drag item into it or...
- Close the loot/stash window and double-click to equip via the standard inventory screen

I guess something to do with the comparison function given the way it triggers?

Honestly, I've been genuinely having a great time with Stalker 2. This has been the only show-stopper I've personally found in 90 hours so far. Anyone else run into the same thing?

EDIT: Seems to mostly happen with artefacts, sometimes with guns and never with suits (that I’ve seen so far at least)

[Jen]

never had that problem.

[Gnappsmurfen]

Have same problem. Any solution?

[Safety Rabbit]

Originally posted by Gnappsmurfen:

Have same problem. Any solution?

It seems to have been related to a memory leak bug which is particularly bad in Rostok. It's exacerbated by the amount of stuff in the stash, or so I have been told. This sounds about right as the bug (for me at least) was almost always triggered while using the stash but I did start to notice freezes directly after it.

So (possibly overstuffed) stash + Rostok = game freeze

I travelled to a town (other than Rostok) and sold as much out of my stash as I could. My inner loot-goblin was displeased. After that I just sort of stayed away from Rostok for all but the briefest visits and always quick-saved before and after using the stash there.

[z1]

I've been seeing that hoarding things in your personal inventory leads to the issues. I'd just keep things you're for sure going to use.