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Rendelius
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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
Post Wed Feb 13, 2002 11:05 am
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Danicek
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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
Post Wed Feb 13, 2002 11:41 am
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EverythingXen
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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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Post Wed Feb 13, 2002 2:00 pm
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Snome
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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.
Post Thu Mar 21, 2002 5:45 pm
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EverythingXen
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Have you killed 3D acceleration?
Post Fri Mar 22, 2002 3:36 pm
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Danicek
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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.
Post Fri Mar 22, 2002 4:21 pm
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Max Killen
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I'm thinking of upgrading to XP. Can you think of any other games that ran before but crashed when you installed XP
Post Sun Mar 24, 2002 7:55 pm
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Danicek
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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.
Post 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.
Post Sat Mar 30, 2002 3:10 am
 
EverythingXen
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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.
Post Mon Apr 01, 2002 6:51 am
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Snome
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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.
Post Tue Apr 09, 2002 9:31 am
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EverythingXen
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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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Post Tue Apr 09, 2002 2:24 pm
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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 ?
Post Wed Apr 10, 2002 6:29 pm
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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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Post Thu Apr 11, 2002 1:18 am
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Sparhawk
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WINXP is working fine for me
   

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
Post Mon Apr 15, 2002 12:01 am
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