Tarant's framerate drop to 0 and constant loading

Greetings,

kinda new to the forum, my 1st post, excuse the noob pretty please. Kinda ran the Arcanum again after ages, i did try to play it before but it was just too buggy for my taste.

So i installed the thing and started the game again. It ran fine on my current comp and OS, no bugs, so i finished the content up to the Black Mountain Clan Mine. Then after some serious advice from my experienced collegues (...) i installed all the patches (1.0.7.4, 091225 and Hi Res).

The saves worked normally and i played on, to Isle of Despair part of the storyline, but then things went down completely. When i came to Tarant i couldnt move about, the char got frozen, constantly seeing the loading clock in the right upper corner. Framerate drops to 0. So all in all, i cannot move in Tarant and a few other cities (Blackroot etc).

Otherwise the game works perfectly when it comes to fighting, exploring the world and all the rest. In the mines, caves and all the other surrounding the game is perfect, but Tarant constant loading error is just making it unworthy to play.

So, the questions are obvious:
* What can i do to make the game work?
* Can i use the old saves or are they permanently wasted?
* Which combination of patches makes a stable game?

I only post cause i didnt find the answers after checking some threads. If there is anything i should clarify please let me know and ill explain the error further.

SE area of Tarant before the patch:


SE area of Tarant after the patch. Notice the doors, they are swinging like crazy ingame:


Thx alot for your answers, cheers!

 

Thx for the kind welcome!

I did reinstall a few times and tried different patches. I also followed the advice on one of the forums saying one should delete the maps and proto directories because they interfere with the fixes. Nothing worked.

Upon coming to Tarant the loading just destroys the game.

The ironic part is, the game worked perfectly in its vanilla version, not one bug, not one error, but with the "fix" installation the game just broke down.

Edit:
Any suggestion concerning the fixing of this error is more the welcome.

 

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Ah yes, didnt see the obvious. So the saves are either lost or i could play the vanilla version with them.

Since vanilla aint worth playing i suppose i got to restart the whole thing, wonderful.

Thx again for yarn help. Cheers!