This is a strange one where I hope someone can suggest some recourse that doesn't require reinstalling the game and/or patch. I will temporarily avoid posting my system and hardware specs mainly because I've played this game without this issue for over 10 years with the current rig and installation so the configuration should not be a factor. Suffice it to state, it's a legacy XP system with rather mundane performance components and resources by today's standards. I'll leave it to others to be the judge, however, if exposition of details would make much difference.
In any event, I just completed the first two chapters of HotU and still in the entry area of the Lost Souls.
Deekin was there and all commands were completely responsive and normal until my toon left the tavern. I really didn't take notice that Deekin wasn't appearing on the screen right away because he can drag behind at times, getting caught near obstacles, etc. He is still shown in my party and is the only henchman there. He responds to the radial commands like toggling stealth, spell casting, stand ground, etc. but just the floaty text appears, but no NPC graphic is rendered that can be targeted to pull up his convo menu. Saving and reloading has no effect on eliminating the invisibility and targeting.
In the past, I've had occasions (possibly due to a graphics gliche, I suppose) where some NPC would become invisible, but in those rare instances, just a save/reload would resynch the graphics fine again. Actually, I had something similar occur with traps not being rendered as detected until save/reload, but that's another story, though the causes could be related somehow. Dunno about that.
Oh, and I can access Deekin's inventory just fine using the radial and move items in and out without a problem.
So...
Is there any way that I can respawn the Deekin creature on screen again and talk to him? I reloaded a MUCH earlier save from the previous chapter where Deekin is being rendered fine. Somehow the creature graphics got out of synch and I am at a loss to restore it. Suggestions?
Thanks, in advance.
