Agmatine

O Almighty Doer of Stuff, You DO have almighty powers indeed, Your Grace (I know such language makes you feel good, so I'm buttering it heavily 😆). You answered my prayers with a heavenly advise that only the highest sages can fathom in the dark depths of obscurity in which us, miserable vermin, ignorant animalcules, insignificant specks of nothingness, struggle for their very survival in these black abysses that only Your light can penetrate. So I duly followed your advise, O wisest among the very wise, and as I expected from your infallible scrutiny into the deep recesses of the gelatinous blob that I sometimes call my brain, and, as sure as You are the Almighty DOS, the Blades are back from the temporary exile in which my carelessness had forgotten them, and I can now capture 4 souls if I wish to. I am infinitely grateful for having had the kindness of allowing me an audience in Your Exile Palace. I will not steal more of your time, precious and rare as mithral, and leave you a profusion of thanks, as thanks are the only currency I can use to pay you an insignificant particle of all that I owe you for having given me the keys to the Lands of Exile. And from this day onward, I will be your devoted servant, even your serf if you ask me to, for You are not only infinitely wise, but infinitely kind, generous and charitable in those difficult times where the Empire has sent that Crowned Plague (which is one of the names they have used to call that abominable calamity). May the Fungus Necklace that Empress Prozac sent you to protect you from the Crowned Plague and any of its evil effects. Your eternally devoted Agmatine P.S.: It works much better now! I immediately knew it would be different this time since as soon as I intalled it because the font in the top menu was different. There seems to be a slightly slower speed in the execution, but since the "Capture Soul" now works for more slots, I'm assuming I now have the best combination available. I'll update you if I still detect stability issues (especially in the spells department), but if you don't hear back from me, you may assume all is well, etc. Thanks!!!

I'm very glad to be able to play BoE on my 64-bit machine, thanks to the OTVDMW fix already mentioned. However, it is not as stable as some have claimed it to be. Unless there is something that wasn't mentioned elsewhere, here are some fo the few problems I found. 1) The game plays just fine albeit more slowly, until... it starts acting weird. The major issue that shows up eventually is casting spells. All of a sudden, the spell window does not open up properly, but sort of superimposes in transparency against the main window background, and no button works, except the 'cast' button which simply closes this aborting window. The only way to get out of this problem is to save the game, and quit using the Windows Task manager (since the 'quit game' does not work anymore either when the 'spells problem' shows up). When opening BoE again, the issue has resolved itself, but will eventually come back. 2) Even when the game works just fine (minus the speed which is always slower), I found a minor glitch but that shows there are some 'bugs' that the OTVDMW does not take in charge. The only such glitch that never seems to work properly despite my several attempts has to do with using the 'capture soul/simulacre' dual functionality. I can 'capture any creature I want (well, the ones one can with the classical game...), except that it ALWAYS capture it in a single slot, i.e. slot 1. Any attempt to capture a second creature 'soul' automatically succeeds by overwriting the previous one occupying slot 1. In other words, one can only capture one creature, and the 3 other slots don't seem to exist anymore (or don't seem to work at all). It's not a matter of "chance" , as I tried it several times in a row and it ALWAYS captures a creature soul in the same slot! Annying but at least I can play a few hours, until "spells" don't work and one cannot quit the game properly other than using the Windows Task Manager. I guess my questions are: 1) Did anyone experience any of these problems? 2) And if so, do you know what can one do to prevent them? Of course, it's the stability problem that is the most worrying...