Throne of Bhaal Beta Patch

BioWare has made a new *beta* patch available for Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal owners that addresses an issue with save and load times. Here's a rip from their site:

    This BETA patch is being provided to fix a particular issue with the Throne of Bhaal 26498 patch. If you are having a problem with save and load times noticeably increasing, the new Throne of Bhaal 26499 BETA patch has been found to resolve the problem.