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Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 5:07 pm
by Rincewind
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
Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2003 6:16 pm
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
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 11:19 am
by Stilgar
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
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 11:25 am
by fable
Yep. That's because XP builds upon the Win2000 technology. You shouldn't have that problem with Win98/ME.
Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 2:38 pm
by Rincewind
aha, thatd be it. I'm running Windows XP. Grr, infernal microsucks making all my games not work. Cheers guys
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 5:54 am
by Stilgar
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.
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 7:50 am
by fable
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.
