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I just bought BG2 yesterday and I'm having some problems. The movies won't work! For instance, the intro movie will play a little bit and then all the sudden it will dump me back to the desktop. So what I did was click my way out of the movies and into the game. But whenever a movie plays in the game..like the death scene, then it crashes to the desktop again showing no error messages. I have Windows 2000 so I decided to try it on my Windows 98 machine. They are both the same machines, I built them myself. And they both have the same drivers. The same thing happened!

My systems specs are as follows:
Windows 98/2000
P3 800
256 megs RAM
Geforce 2 GTS 32 meg DDR(6.49 drivers)
AGP 4x
DVD Drive

Please help me get to the bottom of this problem. I havn't had this problem in any other games except Diablo 2 but the movies in Diablo 2 do not play a critical part in the overall enjoyment of the game.

Thanks in advance.

EDIT: I have Direct x 8 installed on the 98 machine and Direct x 8 on the 2000 machine.

[This message has been edited by xgalaxy (edited 12-14-2000).]

did you apply the patch?


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Yes, I got the patch from the website by clicking on the upgrade button. If that is no the latest patch then please tell me where to get it.

Many people have had problems with powerful computer power to back them up. I suggest disabling the movies for now, by marking the appropriate column in baldur.ini (see powerusers.txt in your main game folder for more details).

I would assume that it's your advanced videocard that's causing these troubles for you. I would assume that one of the special 3d functions in the game is not functioning as they should. Try messing around with the various configuration settings for the graphics and see if that helps.

If it's any consolation the movies in BG2 does not play an important part of the game. All the vital scenes are played out as scripted events. You'll miss the end sequence though. :-(

Try installing a sperate copy of DirectX from another disk (don't try DX8 that will screw everything up) that sometimes sorts out problems.

Youcould just press space when the movies come up thus bypassing them

Looks like the Direct X 8 cause another problem again. I don't know what those guys os Microsoft up to since Direct X 7.0 also still contain problems.

I suggest try to use lower version of Direct X.

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Hi

I've got the same problem. Tried video cards (TNT/2, GeForce2), many RAMs, got all card out except video, installed win95 and win98 and have the same problem, tried DirectX7 and 8, installed and uninstalled mainboard drivers and it didn't work. It might be the mainboard I think. I've got an Asus P3V133 mainboard with 500 MHz Celeron with the latest (and only) BIOS update.
Also got problem with Baldurs Gate I, but not with Diablo II.
I've just wrote a mail to Asus, maybe they know the answer.

Tolgyesi Peter

Correct, there are proplems with BG-games running on machine with xxV133 mainboards.
Look at infoplay , but as far as I remember it is *not* solved in any patch.
I read a post where someone claimed he solved the problem on his PC by changing FSB back to 100 MHz, but I don't know if this really works.

I'll try infoplay, thanx.
Celeron's inner clock (sorry, don't know what it's called in english) is 66 MHz, so changing it to 100 MHz won't solve the problem.