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Rendelius
Critical Error
Joined: 06 Jul 2001
Posts: 16
Location: Austria |
Anyone else experienceing them? In BG 2, after leaving the main town square after the starter dungeon, the game tends to crash within minutes:
Win XP,
GeForce3 TI 200
latest Win driver
Full Install with addon |
Wed Feb 13, 2002 11:05 am |
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Danicek
The Old One
Joined: 15 Dec 2001
Posts: 5922
Location: Czech Republic |
I have fresh install with addon (I play it first time on XP, before I played it on 9 . But I did not left first dungeon.
I will try it and post it. I hope it is just your problem  |
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Wed Feb 13, 2002 11:41 am |
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EverythingXen
Arch-villain
Joined: 01 Feb 2002
Posts: 4342
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I've heard of crashes in the Promenade, especially around nightfall. There are dozens. It could be some video setting, or corrupt file during install, or your soundcard, or the operating system...
That hardly narrows it down, but I've heard of each of those creating a crash similar to the one you're experiencing.
The biggest culprit is '3D acceleration'. Go into the setup and if it's checked on the first screen... turn it off. It's been referred to as the '3D Deceleration box' as it tends to do quite the opposite of what it's supposed to, and figures prominently into dozens of crashes (including the few I've had).
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Wed Feb 13, 2002 2:00 pm |
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Snome
Eager Tradesman
Joined: 21 Mar 2002
Posts: 44
Location: Holland |
While BG2 worked fine (except for being a bit slow at times) on my Win98 machine I've suffered crashes at least once per 30 minutes on my new WinXP machine, especially in the bridge district (haven't been on the promenade yet, so i don't know if that area crashes regularly as well).
Running the game in higher resolution (above 640x800) seems to make the problems worse. |
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Thu Mar 21, 2002 5:45 pm |
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EverythingXen
Arch-villain
Joined: 01 Feb 2002
Posts: 4342
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Have you killed 3D acceleration? |
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Fri Mar 22, 2002 3:36 pm |
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Danicek
The Old One
Joined: 15 Dec 2001
Posts: 5922
Location: Czech Republic |
quote:
On 2002-02-13 05:41, Danicek wrote:
I have fresh install with addon (I play it first time on XP, before I played it on 9. But I did not left first dungeon.
I will try it and post it. I hope it is just your problem
I had no problems, but I disabled 3D acceleration and it helped.
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Fri Mar 22, 2002 4:21 pm |
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Max Killen
Exalted Potentate
Joined: 04 Dec 2001
Posts: 1112
Location: Why not Minot? |
I'm thinking of upgrading to XP. Can you think of any other games that ran before but crashed when you installed XP
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Sun Mar 24, 2002 7:55 pm |
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Danicek
The Old One
Joined: 15 Dec 2001
Posts: 5922
Location: Czech Republic |
I tried maybe 30 - 35 games on winXP and no crashes. Also I do not know game that didnt crash on Win98 / Me and did on XP.
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Sun Mar 24, 2002 8:01 pm |
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I'm getting the most God awful lag in BG2. I have no idea why. I have a 1.9ghz, Gforce 4 ti4400, 512mb RAM. I shouldn't lag. I have the latest patches, drivers etc..
It's aggravating. |
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Sat Mar 30, 2002 3:10 am |
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EverythingXen
Arch-villain
Joined: 01 Feb 2002
Posts: 4342
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I'm betting that 3D is turned on in your BGConfiguration file. On the first screen, deselect the 3D option. It's a terrible, terrible thing that cause much lag. |
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Mon Apr 01, 2002 6:51 am |
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Snome
Eager Tradesman
Joined: 21 Mar 2002
Posts: 44
Location: Holland |
I've also experienced crashes with mm8, ultima 9 and (something completely different) Catan. The only game i've seen that runs without any problems so far is the sims. The BGII crashes are the worst, since it's the only game that doesn't just make the game itself crash, but also reboots (!) my system.
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Tue Apr 09, 2002 9:31 am |
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EverythingXen
Arch-villain
Joined: 01 Feb 2002
Posts: 4342
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Ahhhh... classic video driver conflict symptom. What kind of card do you use, and how old are the drivers for it?
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Tue Apr 09, 2002 2:24 pm |
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Snome
Eager Tradesman
Joined: 21 Mar 2002
Posts: 44
Location: Holland |
A GeForce 3 Ti 200, just like Rendelius. Both the card and the driver are less than a month old .
Any insight you can give me ? |
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Wed Apr 10, 2002 6:29 pm |
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EverythingXen
Arch-villain
Joined: 01 Feb 2002
Posts: 4342
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First off, like mentioned, go to the configuration option and make sure that the 3d acceleration is turned off on the main page.
Beyond that... you might have to downgrade your detonator drivers to an earlier version because the game is old.
It's been a long time since I've been there... but I think the technical forums at http://www.bioware.com are still in business. I'm sure hundreds of people are running into the same problems...
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"The old world dies and with it the old ways. We will rebuild it as it should be, MUST be... Immortal!"
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=Worshipper of the Written Word= |
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Thu Apr 11, 2002 1:18 am |
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Sparhawk
Eager Tradesman
Joined: 15 Mar 2002
Posts: 25
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I have been playing BGII with the exp set installed, and besides so otherwise excessive CD-swapping in my CD-RW drive, it has been working fine.
My Ranger (Archer) is now level 9 and no crashes, it does slow SOME when I scroll thru the map to fast, but nothing bad otherwise.
HP Pavilion 520N
1.3 GHZ Celeron
Verto 64MB SDRAM MX400 Video Card |
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Mon Apr 15, 2002 12:01 am |
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