Has anyone had this problem before? It's pretty much plagued me for as long as I've had this game. My girlfriend never had it before, but ever since she met me she has. I've had this problem with 3 different computers now, mine, my girlfriends, and my new one. It doesn't make any sense to me, especially when I consider that whenever I've brought it up before, NOBODY seems to have any clue what I'm talking about, as apparently it's not even a rare problem. It seems to be unique to this household.

Anyway, whenever I open my character sheet, the game pretty much stops responding. Sorta, anyway. I can still see what everyone else is doing. If you talk, I'll see it. If you fight, I'll witness it. If you leave the room, come back, I'll see it all. I can even sorta move around, though I'm certain it doesn't register on anyone else's computer. I can't talk anymore, if I type anything it'll show up, but when I hit enter to send the message, it just doesn't go anywhere, it's lost. I can't exit the rooms, I can't fight, I can't access my inventory (when I do, the inventory window pops up but it's completely empty), I can't really do anything. It's very weird that I can see you all play, but I can't myself, simply because I open my character sheet.

It doesn't matter if I open my character sheet for an instant, or for 10 minutes, the problem occurs all the same.

My girlfriend claims that on her computer, the problem will fix itself after several minutes or so, though that's never happened to me. I've waited as long as 5-10 minutes for it to fix itself, and it hasn't.

I can always tell it's happening, because when I open my character sheet, it claims that I'm level 2 or 5 or whatever, but my XP registers as 0.

The only suggestions I've ever been given is that it's a software glitch, specific to my CD. So I tested it out the other day. I have NWN Platinum. I uninstalled NWN, and installed NWN Gold (it's an old copy of my girlfriend's). Same problem occured. Is it possible that once you have the glitch, it'll stick with your computer even if you delete the game and reinstall from a different CD?

Any suggestions on how to fix this?

That sounds exactly like a lag issue, but if I don't think your computer is retrieving that information from the server so that's the puzzling part.

Let me clarify- when crashes occur or the server is REALLY laggy you can't leave zones, people around you stop moving or move spurraticaly (spelling?), and your chat appears about ten seconds after you hit enter. All the stuff you said- identical to lag issues.

I know that's not a solution, but it might help you think of the source of the problem. Worst comes to worst, just write down all the stuff you need to know about your character sheet, or just don't look at it at all. And reset the character sheet key from "c" to nothing or some obscure key that you won't accidentally hit.

Best of luck.

One last thought- turn down your graphics to stick figures and see how it runs after opening the C. sheet

Eh, I don't think so. It's not that things move like it's laggy. I've seen servers when it's laggy, and it's just far too smooth for it. People move and talk fine. It's just me that it affects. Like, I can literally sit there and watch people have entire conversations before me and I can do nothing but read.

Also, the current computer I run on is amazing. I could run NWN three time if it were possible. And the connection is decent too.

Hmm. Press printscreen and link us the screenshot.