Is Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn Windows 2000 compatible?!Please help!!

lkjhgpoi · Post by **lkjhgpoi** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 3:49 pm

Hello everybody,
I would like to know if Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn is Windows 2000 compatible.Thanks in advance,sorry for my english but I am not American!! BYE BYE

Astafas · Post by **Astafas** » Sun Jul 13, 2003 11:28 pm

Yes, it is. I run Win 2000 and have never experienced any problems.

Shin Jaon · Post by **Shin Jaon** » Tue Jul 15, 2003 11:10 pm

If it helps I use XP, Never had one problem.

lkjhgpoi · Post by **lkjhgpoi** » Wed Jul 16, 2003 2:56 am

Thank you.

Thank you very much for your help.

buburli · Post by **buburli** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 11:41 am

Hi erveryone!
I also experienced no problems using W2k, but I have to use an Admin account, which is not exactly what w2k ist meant to do a normal user!
Is there a way to play BG2 with a normal user account?

thx ind advance, buburli

Ron_Lugge · Post by **Ron_Lugge** » Sun Aug 31, 2003 3:46 pm

Originally posted by buburli
Hi erveryone!
I also experienced no problems using W2k, but I have to use an Admin account, which is not exactly what w2k ist meant to do a normal user!
Is there a way to play BG2 with a normal user account?

thx ind advance, buburli

You need to be an admin to install, IIRC, but a plain old user should be able to play it once its installed.

buburli · Post by **buburli** » Tue Sep 02, 2003 12:18 am

Thx for the hint, but:

You are right, that is it only possible to install as an administrator (or as member of administrators group).
If I install as admin or as user who got admin rights just for the install procedure, there is no way to play without admin rights!

btw, I use the german installation with the latest patch (I Think 2.0.3.7) applied.

Are you able to play as "user"???

UserUnfriendly · Post by **UserUnfriendly** » Tue Sep 02, 2003 2:16 am

nt uses user profiles to grant permission for certain rights to the system...you have to understand this is an nt server concept, and even if a system is not used as a server, nt will still adhere to the server/client model...

try using the "power user" account, I think that account is still part of the default installation, or use usermanager, if you know enough about computers, to give a user read, write and execute programs on the volume...

most likely, the account you are using has the rights to read data, and execute programs, you need write permission, since that is typically only on the default user directorys....oh yeah, you need create new directories, since bg2 saves require the right to create new directories....

buburli · Post by **buburli** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 1:57 pm

Thx for advice, but im used to nt profiles an i've also tried a power user. unfortunally it dowsn't work anyway!

I've also granted full access for all users to the bg2 directory, with no result.

the only way i see so far is to run the programm under admin rights,but this means i have to type in the admin password evry program start, so ....

are there anymore suggestions?

thx, buburli