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[crusto]

Hello all,

Ive wanted to play these games for years so Ive recently bought the Baldurs Gate compliation. I have managed to install the first game and play it for a short while. But I am getting constant crashes. It's usually when I try to save my game. Everything freezes and the the program stops responding. Yesterday I got an assertion error message when I tried to save it. The graphics are also very glitchy with black squares randomly appearing on screen

My PC is only 12 weeks old and windows 7 home premium (32 bit) is the os. Im guessing its compatibility issues that are the problem here but I really dont know where to start to do anything about them. I dont want to miss out on what seems to be a brilliant game.

I was wandering if anyone here could help me out.

Cheers.

[Jarno Mikkola]

Well, it probably would be good if you would mention what kind of computer you have and what you have already done, trying to get all this sorted out.
As for the GPU problem(black boxes etc.), have you tried any and all of these? Yes it's for NVidia cards, but I have ATI card with those settings and they work really well.
For the CTDs, you might want to do a list of things according to this.

And welcome.

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 26 November 2009 - 12:57 PM.

[crusto]

Well, it probably would be good if you would mention what kind of computer you have and what you have already done, trying to get all this sorted out.
As for the GPU problem(black boxes etc.), have you tried any and all of these? Yes it's for NVidia cards, but I have ATI card with those settings and they work really well.
For the CTDs, you might want to do a list of things according to this.

And welcome.

I have an acer 5935g laptop with a 1gb nvidia gpu. And this is my first attempt to sort things out, but like I said, im not sure where to start. I dont get any graphical glitches on any other software though so I just put it down to compatibility issues. But believe me im no expert!! In all honesty I can put up with the glitches as they arent (as of yet) game breaking. The crashes are the issue, it doesnt ctd, I have to run task manager to shut it down.

Cheers for the reply.

[Miloch]

For the CTDs, you might want to do a list of things according to this.

That topic is a bit dated - nowhere does it mention putting Logging On=1 under Program Options in baldur.ini, reproducing the crash(es) and looking at baldur.err, which is really what needs to be done for crashes, freezes, etc.

It could just be you installed the game to Program Files and should be installing it anywhere else for Vista/Win7.

[crusto]

For the CTDs, you might want to do a list of things according to this.

That topic is a bit dated - nowhere does it mention putting Logging On=1 under Program Options in baldur.ini, reproducing the crash(es) and looking at baldur.err, which is really what needs to be done for crashes, freezes, etc.

It could just be you installed the game to Program Files and should be installing it anywhere else for Vista/Win7.

Could you elaborate a little please? Im not really that tech savvy when it comes to stuff like this . I would greatly appreciate a little push in the right direction. In the meanwhile Ive just bought dragon age origins. Very nice... but im still dying to play BG!!

[Miloch]

Could you elaborate a little please?

Well, first things first - which folder is your game installed in? In Windows Explorer (or whatever it is in Win7) it should tell you C:/Program Files/Black Isle/Baldur's Gate or something like that. It should not be installed in Program Files, but you can create a folder called C:/Games (or whatever you want to call it) and install it there or anywhere else.

[Jarno Mikkola]

Could you elaborate a little please? Im not really that tech savvy when it comes to stuff like this . I would greatly appreciate a little push in the right direction. In the meanwhile Ive just bought dragon age origins. Very nice... but im still dying to play BG!

Well, first things first - which folder is your game installed in? In Windows Explorer (or whatever it is in Win7) it should tell you C:/Program Files/Black Isle/Baldur's Gate or something like that. It should not be installed in Program Files, but you can create a folder called C:/Games (or whatever you want to call it) and install it there or anywhere else.

I'll el... more...
The Milochs advice is sound cause it's used to over come the W7's file editing problem that comes from the W7 being a made "by clever idiots"... being the technical term.

So once you have probably uninstalled and reinstalled a full install to C:/Games/Baldur's Gate -folder or where ever, as long as it's not Program Files sub-folder... you go to the said folder, open up the "baldur.ini" (without the qoutes) with Notepad.
Find [Program Options] header, push Enter to add a line and add "Logging On=1" (again without the quotes) to the line, save and exit the Notepad, run the game and load to the point where it crashes, after the game ends into the crash, go to the game folder, open the "baldur.err"(again without the qoutes) with Notepad, and post the results in a new post.

[crusto]

Could you elaborate a little please? Im not really that tech savvy when it comes to stuff like this . I would greatly appreciate a little push in the right direction. In the meanwhile Ive just bought dragon age origins. Very nice... but im still dying to play BG!

Well, first things first - which folder is your game installed in? In Windows Explorer (or whatever it is in Win7) it should tell you C:/Program Files/Black Isle/Baldur's Gate or something like that. It should not be installed in Program Files, but you can create a folder called C:/Games (or whatever you want to call it) and install it there or anywhere else.

I'll el... more...
The Milochs advice is sound cause it's used to over come the W7's file editing problem that comes from the W7 being a made "by clever idiots"... being the technical term.

So once you have probably uninstalled and reinstalled a full install to C:/Games/Baldur's Gate -folder or where ever, as long as it's not Program Files sub-folder... you go to the said folder, open up the "baldur.ini" (without the qoutes) with Notepad.
Find [Program Options] header, push Enter to add a line and add "Logging On=1" (again without the quotes) to the line, save and exit the Notepad, run the game and load to the point where it crashes, after the game ends into the crash, go to the game folder, open the "baldur.err"(again without the qoutes) with Notepad, and post the results in a new post.

Ok, will give it a go. Cheers very much, ill let you know what happens......

[crusto]

Could you elaborate a little please?

Well, first things first - which folder is your game installed in? In Windows Explorer (or whatever it is in Win7) it should tell you C:/Program Files/Black Isle/Baldur's Gate or something like that. It should not be installed in Program Files, but you can create a folder called C:/Games (or whatever you want to call it) and install it there or anywhere else.

So I can just create a games folder on my desktop and point the installer towards that? That seems pretty simple, too simple. Am I missing something?

[theacefes]

Create it in the C (your primary hard drive) if you want specifics. I happen to have mine in my secondary hard drive where I keep the majority of my games but you can put it anywhere that's not Program Files.

[crusto]

So far so good! Ive even managed to leave candlekeep. Everything seems to be ok now....Just wandering will I have to do the same with BG 2 when I install it? And also, what can I do about the glitchy graphics? It went really slooooowww when gorion was getting killed. I've checked, and my drivers are up to date, would turning off 3d acceleration help?

Thanks a bunch for all your help so far. Im really diggin this game, I dont know why, but I prefer playing this to Dragons age.

[theacefes]

I've checked, and my drivers are up to date, would turning off 3d acceleration help?

If you have to ask something like that, best thing to do is try and see if it helps, though I am running Win7 as well and it works fine for me with all graphic enhancements turned on.

In regards to your install, yeah you can do the same for BG2...if you have a Games/Black Isle folder, put it in there to keep everything together if you like.

[Miloch]

For video card and lag issues, try the threads Jarno linked to in the second post. I run the games on like 3 different machines, and they all run fine unless I have a bunch (like 100s) of mods installed.