NPCs 'silent treatment' in SP

[TrubbaNot]

I was in A5 NM in Single Player, and after ending the siege & taking a TP back to town, the NPCs wouldn't talk to me. I tried going out of town and back in, and I couldn't enter my portal so I had to run out the gate, but that didn't fix it. The game was acting like a classic case of bnet lag. I was about to just start a new game, but I hadn't gone that last few steps to the first WP yet, and I really didn't feel like clearing the whole area again, so I randomly started doing everything I could think of. I switched the right-click skill (was on FO; iirc I changed it to tele) and was finally able to talk/ use my TP. Got the WP and stopped playing.

Any idea what would cause this? I play plain vanilla, 1.11b, no mods or hacks, from the original store-bought CD.

[Stantz]

Yeah, I get the same behavior from time to time.. I can always hit escape, and click the bottom menu item under "Save and Exit" (I think it's "Return to Game"). I do that a couple of times and sometimes I get to talk to a NPC.

At these times, you can't get to your stash or any items on the ground, right? That's where it gets a little frustrating..

[TrubbaNot]

Yep, couldn't access stash ... basically, clicking on anything did ... nothing. I played a different character, still in A1 normal, today, and had no problems. I'm going to test it with the character in A5 NM later and will try the Return to Game method you suggested if she has a problem.

I do wonder what could be causing this, though. Faulty CD-R? Old (maybe dirty?) disc? Something more dire with the computer? Or just a game glitch?

Thanks for replying. I was beginning to think I was the only one!

[Jackson]

I think it's just one of those things that's weird with the game. Save and Exit will fix it almost 100% of the time.