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Rincewind · Post by **Rincewind** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 5:07 pm

argh. I just started playing BG2 again and I used that dungeon be gone thingy to skip Irenicus' dungeon.
However, now that I'm out, when I try to speak to people in Amn, half of them are busy! It gives me that little message thats like 'So-and-so appears to be busy and cannot talk' or something. It''s quite annoying because I can't talk to hardly anyone. Boo hoo.

Sorry if this is a bit vague, but its quite late. And blurgh. Thanks for any replies

Baked Goods · Post by **Baked Goods** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 6:16 pm

Generally this a bug with windows 2000- do you have 2000?, go to the bioware web site and download the latest applicable patch.

Good luck

Stilgar · Post by **Stilgar** » Sat Aug 02, 2003 11:19 am

Originally posted by Baked Goods
Generally this a bug with windows 2000 do you have 2000?, go to the bioware web site and download the latest applicable patch.

Good luck

It's also the case in windows XP, and the latest patch fixes it

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Aug 02, 2003 11:25 am

Yep. That's because XP builds upon the Win2000 technology. You shouldn't have that problem with Win98/ME.

Rincewind · Post by **Rincewind** » Sat Aug 02, 2003 2:38 pm

aha, thatd be it. I'm running Windows XP. Grr, infernal microsucks making all my games not work. Cheers guys

Stilgar · Post by **Stilgar** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 5:54 am

Originally posted by Rincewind
aha, thatd be it. I'm running Windows XP. Grr, infernal microsucks making all my games not work. Cheers guys

When you have problems with running older games under XP,
you could try running them in windows 95/98 mode.
rightclick the icon and you can change it under properties.

fable · Post by **fable** » Sun Aug 03, 2003 7:50 am

Originally posted by Stilgar
When you have problems with running older games under XP,
you could try running them in windows 95/98 mode.
rightclick the icon and you can change it under properties.

Problem is, many older games require direct access to genuine DOS, which is the platform on which Windows 98/ME still runs. Windows 2000/XP is ostensibly faster (though Microsoft absorbs any speed dividends with feature bloat, IMO), but there's no longer any real DOS. It only has a simulated DOS, a series of DOSlike commands generated within Windows, itself. That's why a lot of products that require DOS won't run in Win2000/XP.

And that's one reason I won't switch to it, either.