Solved: Shivering Isles Freezes/Locks Up At The Garden of Bone and Flesh

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I just bought Shivering Isles from the PS3 network last night and was very disappointed when the game constantly locked up during the quest, with Ice Veins, to kill the Shambles in the Garden of Bone and Flesh. If this is annoying you, I did find a workaround through trial and error to finish the qu...

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