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[Lord Hugo]

Well, I just recently downloaded BGT and installed it. However, I started playing and noticed some intense lag. Sometimes it's okay, but usually it is lagging. That doesn't seem possible as this PC has over 2 gigs of RAM. Then I seemed to notice that dialogue and music had been changed...for the worse. I also noticed graphical glitches. Does anyone have any suggestions for the lag? And, for a BG1 purist like me, should I just switch to Tutu as it seems the person who made the mod decided to tamper way too much with the original product.

[Jarno Mikkola]

Set the game up right:

1. Always patch the game(s) with the latest patch, start a new game and exit after the game has auto-saves itself(so you have to make a char or choose a pre-made one), before you do any moding, and you might as well make a safe backup from the important files: data and override folders, baldur.exe, BGMain.exe, dialog.tlk and CHITIN.key .
2. Put the ambient sounds off from the BGConfic.exe, as some of the areas might have no ambient sounds and so the game tries to start them many time continuously, and so looses processing power.
3. Don't mess with the game configurations so the speed adjustment percentages stay on "normal" ratings even if you have very high end machine, as the game has own it's internal fps counter, it sometimes tries to correct the fps on it's own by lowering graphs etc. Also the games frame rate should be set to about 30, as that's the default.
4. I wouldn't recommend to install any of the speaking item mods, as they run their scripts and fire their comments everywhere, and that's bad for the fps(frames/second count).
5. Inventory management(no stacks that have more than about 200 items, in a bag, arrows etc.), -might also help. And do not carry too many bags of holding and the like storage items.
6. Trying to avoid too many effects on a character(about 20 is fine, 200 is too many, and 20 000 is way way too many...)
7. De-fragmenting your hard drive might also help... as you don't have to go find the data in the pieces. (hmm, there is a joke in there, hih)
8. Before installing the mods, plan the exact order, so they are in correct order, and make sure if you uninstalled the game that you deleted the old mod files, the data and override folders(don't go and overwrite them) so you can start from a clean install, so there is no leftovers from old mods.
9. Helpful links for Tutu and BGT(the .pdf files) -based Megamods.
10. Take note that you should do all the points 1-9 before you install any mods!
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11. And when you have installed all the mods you are going to, it might be a good idea to biff your override folder, but do that knowing that you generally can't change the game much after. The easiest way to do this is to use the End_biff from here.
12. Repeat the step 7 again, if you think it might help.
13. When you quit the game, delete the old files from the Cache folder, if the game puts any files there.

10. point... you should be able to do those changes even after you install the BGT...

[Lord Hugo]

All right. I took off 3D acceleration and it worked. However, there is still the problem with the music...or rather, lack of it. No music plays during battles. The voices of Alaundo aren't singing, and won't even converse. What is going on?

[Leomar]

All right. I took off 3D acceleration and it worked. However, there is still the problem with the music...or rather, lack of it. No music plays during battles. The voices of Alaundo aren't singing, and won't even converse. What is going on?

After the installation of BGT you have a setup-bgtmusic.exe in your BG2 main directory. You need to install the BG1 music with it.

Greetings Leomar