So, after hearing about this game from several people, I bought it on Steam to try it out. I knew about how buggy it was, so I installed the latest version of the unofficial patch (plus version). After some tweaking (it won't run unless I activate Steam in admin mode), the game is playable... to an extent. The HUD and certain textures are some of the lowest-rez things I've ever seen, but I can get past that. The main problem is that I can't seem to allocate my experience points. I haven't heard of anybody else having this problem. Can you guys help?

I played through the steam version without the unofficial patch, never had any problems or bugs that I can remember, try without it.

A low res HUD could be caused by having some settings set to performance/lowest in your GPU control center.

Some people at the steam forum suggest that the True Patch Gold fixes the blurry problem. Try that I guess, as for not being able to spend your XP points, I'd try reinstalling the game. Also, is the auto-spending on? You need 3 XP to buy level 1 and 2 skills, 6 for level 3 etc.

did you install the community patch?

When you're levelling up you need to select the circle of the skill you want, then press accept. Are you doing that?

I've already downloaded the 8.1 unofficial patch, and this is my second install of this game. I'm trying the True patch now. I'll let you know how it works.

Well, I installed the True Patch, and now there aren't any textures anywhere, just pink checkerboards. And yes, I previously had selected the compatibility options that are supposed to fix that. I'm going to uninstall the whole thing again, delete all my local files, and sit on it for a while.

About those experience points, you don't actually assign them. You collect them and when you've got enough, you get skill points to assign. That confused me the first time I played.

theres a texture mod out there, i used that.