After replicating multiple times, I thought I'd look for some help.
First, the player must enter the Brecilian Forest region and begin "Nature of the Beast." In the western forest, there is an autosave at a three-way leading to the East forest and Great Oak. Moving past this trigger will allow the player to reach the East forest, but any save game made will never load again. (Endless load, 100% CPU usage.) Trying to enter the Great Oak area (to get the critical quest items) will cause a freeze when the first Wild Sylvan is supposed to attack. As the autosave itself is corrupted, it took several tries to replicate.
On a hunch, I looted all dead enemies in the area and killed all remaining enemies in other places. Hoping the burden on the processor was gone, I tried again. No luck, still froze. I lowered video settings to the lowest possible, still no luck.
Has anyone else had this bug? It nailed my last character, corrupting all my saves. Usually freezes don't corrupt save games, so it seems to be two problems in one:
-- Autosave/encounter trigger corrupts some value, then saves the game.
-- Wild Sylvan perception/combat (?) freezes game.
Thing is, Wild Sylvans don't cause me problems at any other point where I can fight them. And I never experienced this bug until updating to 1.04.
Some misc. info:
-- US English DAO + Awakening + All DLC
-- Patch 1.04
As a last resort, I will de-activate all my mods and try again. If that works, I'll note what mods cause this problem. If anyone else has this problem or knows what it is/how to fix it, I would appreciate finding out.
Thank you for your time.
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