how to fix infinite loading screen

[Turtle God]

turned down settings and it still doesnt work

[Juggernaut]

Turn the game into windowed mode. Worked for me wonderfully.

[Bobby]

Install the game on a SSD, this works for me

[Raze_Larian]

Was the setting you turned down to enable Lockstep Mode in the advanced graphics options?

Try the 4GB Patch[www.ntcore.com] to increase the amount of virtual memory that the game (or any 32 bit application) can access in 64 bit versions of Windows.

Several people have reported that saving the game before using doors lowers the frequency of the hanging loading screen, and one said it always helped.


To try setting the game to run in a window, edit the file below in a text editor and change the one to a zero in Fullscreen="1".
C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Divinity 2\Profile\graphicoptions.xml

You may need to set Windows Explorer to show hidden files and folders:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/show-hidden-files-and-folders-in-windows-vista/
(covers Vista through Win 10)


Game Loads for ever

[Marduk]

Originally posted by Raze_Larian:

Was the setting you turned down to enable Lockstep Mode in the advanced graphics options?

Try the 4GB Patch[www.ultimatebb.com] to increase the amount of virtual memory that the game (or any 32 bit application) can access in 64 bit versions of Windows.

Several people have reported that saving the game before using doors lowers the frequency of the hanging loading screen, and one said it always helped.


To try setting the game to run in a window, edit the file below in a text editor and change the one to a zero in Fullscreen="1".
C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Divinity 2\Profile\graphicoptions.xml

You may need to set Windows Explorer to show hidden files and folders:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/show-hidden-files-and-folders-in-windows-vista/
(covers Vista through Win 10)


Game Loads for ever

I did that Lockstep thing and it still isn't working. is there another way to fix it without saving and closing the game every time i come across a door to another area?

[Raze_Larian]

Unfortunately, the only workarounds I know of are listed above or in the linked discussion.

[Marduk]

Originally posted by Raze_Larian:

Unfortunately, the only workarounds I know of are listed above or in the linked discussion.

I did that 4GB patch thing yesterday and its working perfectly now, thanks :D

[SomePerson1294832]

The link to the patch wont work for me.

[Raze_Larian]

Originally posted by x420xSenseSlave:

The link to the patch wont work for me.

Sorry, I fixed the link in my post.

http://www.ntcore.com/4gb_patch.php

[cM]

4GB patch did it for me. I somehow managed the base game despite the crashes, but it got unbearable (almost every 2nd loading) in expansion.
Saving reduced the crashes in base game, but in expansion you definitely need 4GB patch. Just finished it and I'm glad I fixed it instead of giving up like with Beyond Divinity.
BTW thanks Raze for supportiing all these older games, your post on multiple forums were a great help when playing Divine Divinity and Divinity 2 this year.

Maybe it would be a good idea to make these suggestions on fixing loading screen a sticky post here on Steam (if possible), seeing as a lot of people struggle with it.

[Mr.Freeman]

Update work´s! Perfect! :-)

[Eiggy]

I tried all of these methods, running the game windowed is the only one that worked for me.

[Leiberfond]

I have tried all of these things and am still getting the infinite load screen. I had lots of issues early in the game but eventually they stopped but now I am in the expansion and it is infinite load screen about 50% of the time when changing areas.
I've tried the 4G update, changing the setting in game, changing it to windowed mode, saving before zoning (it actually seems to happen more often when I do the save method).