Thanks for the reply. It occurred on the first time entering Wonders of Thedas. So that shop has not worked for me yet this playthrough (last playthrough before this was several years ago). - The install is Steam Ultimate Edition - Don't think I've used the toolset (is that to develop mods?), just the Nexus Mod Manager - I also have the 4GB patch for increased memory and altered the one line in the launcher's config file to enable console commands, but I don't think those would affect this issue. My next step is to completely reinstall the game and try to load up the save again, but I thought I'd try a post to see if anyone had seen this issue before... google came up empty. I had previously tried the JB3 textures and Elelith textures, but was running into lots of Denerim crashes so I disabled those through the Mod Manager. Could those have caused problems which are still lingering?