Game Breaking Valdis Cutscene Bug

[ashepwb]

Has anyone been able to get past the bug where the cutscene for the final confrontation with Valdis fails to start? It is listed as one of the bugs that was supposed to be fixed with 2.2. The consequence to this bug is that you can't complete the game as valdis never shows up to fight. I had this problem on the original disk version as well as the steam version which I bought in the hopes to avoid this problem.

Although not a game breaking problem this is also tied to the cutscene for witnessing the Vai'kesh ritual to speak to the dead. Neither cutscenes will play. So it is a particular type of cutscene that just won't trigger.

My only mods are
FOV fix
Text size fix
Retroactive skill points mod.

I am on Windows 10 but I have tried compatibility for 98, XP s2/s3

[ashepwb]

I figured it out. Listing below for posterity.

I removed the FOV res fix files from my resource folder, along with the world.res that they have you make. I set the resolution to the lowest available and played through it as a tiny window on my desktop. You might not need to do that but listing everything I did anyway.

So if you have this bug and you are not on steam get the 2.2 patch. If you are on steam try removing the FOV fix as I showed above. (Removing the FOV fix did not require me to have to start using DS2 allsaves. )

(For searchability. Valdis won't appear. No Valdis cutscene, Valdis bug, Valdis Fix)

[vorik]

thanks!