Recently got the urge to reinstall Baldur's gate series. So I installed both games and the expansions, and decided to install easytutu and some mods to spice things up. Everything went fine, installed everything in the right order, the game worked, everything ran fine for the first day or two. But to my utter bafflement, after loading my save in the middle Beregost after a couple days the display was suddenly stuttering and freezing. What I mean by that is, the game is running more or less fine, its just not displaying properly on the screen, and the screen will stutter and freeze from a second to like twenty seconds while the games still going on without it. Pausing immediately updates the screen to what's actually happening.
This seems to happen mainly in towns,I noticed it first in Beregost; it didn't happen in the wilderness on the way to Nashkel, Nashkel had the problem too, but the carnival and mines were fine. On small maps, inside buildings or such, it doesn't happen or isn't noticeable. The main cause of it seems to be moving members of my party. Especially moving six at the same time. If none are moving it'll just stutter a bit but trying to move more than one causes increasingly bad freezing. My computer is more than good enough to run the game and I've installed and ran it with mods several times with no issues on this computer, I hadn't installed or changed any new mods since the initial install, so that probably wasn't it.
First thing I did was try fiddling with the config, but nothing I tried had an effect. I also couldn't find anyone with a similar problem through google. Then I tried this MACT thing I happened across on these forums, thinking it might just be the game having trouble on Vista, despite it never having trouble before, but the fix it detailed on the thread didn't have an effect either. Then I tried uninstalling the widescreen mod, and ran the game in windowed mode, but that had no effect either.
I would do a complete reinstall but.. as it is, I spent like four hours installing the game, and all the mods and tweaks, and I have very little desire to repeat that anytime soon without some guarantee it would solve the issue. Even then I would almost rather just uninstall it and find something else to occupy my time with.
Any help with this issue would be greatly appreciated. My apologies if this is something obvious or a mod conflict/incompatibility I simply did not notice.
I noticed people often ask for the contents of your baldur.ini so here is mine:
[Program Options]
Installing=0
Install Type=3
GLSetup Driver=0
16Bit Textures=0
Resolution=800
BitsPerPixel=32
3D Acceleration=1
Maximum Frame Rate=40
Path Search Nodes=400000
Translucent Shadows=1
Force 50 Percent Transparent=0
Disable Brighten=1
Display Subtitles=1
Full Screen=0
SoftMirrorBlt=0
SoftBlt=0
SoftSrcKeyBlt=0
Disable Vertex Padding=0
Volume Movie=100
Volume Music=100
Volume Voices=100
Volume Ambients=100
Volume SFX=100
Font Name=
Double Byte Character Support=0
Drop Capitals=1
Display Frequency=60
Tooltips=20
Sprite Mirror=0
Gamma Correction=0
Brightness Correction=0
Backwards Compatible 3d=0
SoftSrcKeyBltFast=0
SoftBltFast=0
Strref On=0
First Run=0
Screen Position X=280
Screen Position Y=74
[Alias]
HD0:=C:\BGtutu\
CD1:=C:\Baldurs Gate II\data\
CD2:=C:\BGtutu\data\
CD3:=C:\Baldurs Gate II\data\
CD4:=C:\Baldurs Gate II\data\
CD5:=C:\Baldurs Gate II\data\
CD6:=C:\Baldurs Gate II\data\
[Game Options]
Memory Access=100
Memory Level=1
Difficulty Level=4
Automated Speed Adjustment=1
Enhanced Path Finding=1
Critical Hit Screen Shake=1
Low End Machine=0
Low End Machine 2=0
Footsteps=1
Attack Sounds=1
Low Mem Sounds 1=0
Low Mem Sounds 2=0
Pausing Map=1
Extra Feedback=0
Duplicate Floating Text=1
Disable Casting Glows=0
Disable VEFVidCells=0
Mid Level Brighten=1
High Level Brighten=1
Tiles Precache Percent=100
All Learn Spell Info=1
Automated Translucent Shadows=50
Automated Very Low Performance=30
Automated Low Performance=60
Automated Disable Brightest=40
Automated Limit Transparency=40
Automated Disable Casting Glows=40
Automated Disable VEFVidCells=30
Automated Mid Level Brighten=60
Automated High Level Brighten=80
Automated Foot Steps=70
Automated Attack Sounds=50
Automated 3D Animations=80
Automated Disable VVC Sounds=60
Automated Faster Blur=60
Disable Statics During Combat=0
Disable Footsteps During Combat=0
Disable Placed Sounds During Combat=0
Disable VVC Sounds=0
Faster Blur=0
Use 3d Animations=1
One Time Popup=1
Never Show Nuisance SOA=1
Mouse Scroll Speed=32
GUI Feedback Level=5
Locator Feedback Level=3
Bored Timeout=3000
Always Dither=1
Subtitles=1
Keyboard Scroll Speed=36
Command Sounds Frequency=2
Selection Sounds Frequency=3
Effect Text Level=62
Infravision=1
Weather=1
Tutorial State=1
Auto Pause State=1161
Auto Pause Center=1
Quick Item Mapping=1
Environmental Audio=1
Heal Party on Rest=0
Terrain Hugging=0
HP Over Head=0
Hotkeys On Tooltips=1
Area Effects Density=100
Filter Games=1
Current Loading Hint=66
[Local]
Language=English
Language25=English
Zip=
Country Code=
[Uninstall]
Uninst_dir=D:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{8DAE4336-2B71-11D4-9A6C-006067325E47}
Uninst_dir_25=D:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{B8C3B479-1716-11D5-968A-0050BA84F5F7}
[GameSpy]
Enabled=0
Location=
[Config]
General=1
Graphics=1
Sound=1
CacheSize=900
ConfigWidth=800
ConfigHeight=600
[MOVIES]
BISLOGO=1
BWDRAGON=1
WOTC=1
_INTRO=1
DEATHAND=1
_RARMINN=1
RESTCAMP=1
RESTINN=1
_EREGOST=1
_BGSUNS=1
_ASHKELL=1
RESTDUNG=1
And also glad you have more resourses to find stuff on your own. Now if you have questions to ask, don't be afraid to ask...
