I just downloaded Daggerfall, and so far, I love it. I've mostly been playing some experimental characters to get a feel for the game, but now I want to start a real character. I want it to be a spell caster, but the thing is, it seems my game has some weird glitch with the spell menu. Sometimes when I open it to load a spell, it won't let me close the menu at all. I mash on the exit button, try to open another menu, everything, but the spell menu won't close. The only thing that works is deleting all my spells, which obviously is not a viable option.

Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Does anyone know any way to fix it? Any help would be much appreciated.


P.S. Just a side question: is it possible to be an Imperial? I always click on the Imperial province at the character creation screen, but nothing happens. Is this a glitch or is it just not possible to be an Imperial? [<--already answered]

I can't help you with the bug, but no it is not possible to play as an Imperial.

Can anyone help?

One thing that might work is bringing the game out of fullscreen (assuming you're playing in fullscreen) by pressing Alt-Enter and checking to make sure the mouse is locked. If you can't move the mouse in-game after Daggerfall goes into a window, then you need to re-lock the mouse (Ctrl-F10) and try leaving the spellbook normally. I had a similar problem where I couldn't leave the inventory screen without leaving the game entirely, and this solved it.

I can move the mouse when I'm stuck in the spell book, and I can click on the buttons in the spell book (except exit), but the game won't let me exit the spell book at all, no matter what I do (unless I delete all my spells like I said or totally exit the game). And I always play in windowed mode.

I tried re-locking the mouse with ctrl-f10 last time this happened, but it didn't help. I'm going to try to re-install the game and see if that helps.

Did you try double clicking a spell? Whenever I double click a spell it exits the spell menu and readies that spell.

Thats the way it works for me as well.

As for Playing Emperial, what you can do is choose a human race and make an imperial custom class. Just name it as imperial, put 6 of the imperial related skills ( refer to Morrowind or Oblivion ) in the misc skills. Now for the major and minor skills tailor them for the type of imperial you want to play.

Yep, tried that. It doesn't close the spellbook.

I have a problem where spells would occasionally disappear from the spellbook without making any attempt to delete them. I don't know how to avoid it other than to keep checking for missing spells before each save, reloading if the glitch occurs.

Sometimes that happens to me when I don't have enough spell points to cast the spell. Could that be it?

No, this happens regardless of how many spell points I have.

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I seem to have found a half-fix. If I press the spellbook hotkey as soon as I click exit, it will exit the spellbook. Only thing is, if I have a spell loaded, it seems like it will sometimes use up twice the amount of mana, which is really annoying.

I also tried re-installing. Didn't help at all.

That's a very strange glitch that I have never encountered before... unfortunately I have no idea what could be causing it. :-/