Baldur's Gate With Windows XP Clash - Solution

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I found this handy little link while searching for a solution to this problem. Thought I'd post it as I am led to believe it's a common problem that a lot of people might run in to. Tal, not sure if you want to sticky this. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;324767

Cheers .

 

Perhaps.
Although I found that link when I searched on Google for the problem; it brought up plenty of results. I actually found that on Biowares (or whatever) technical support forum, where it was stickied and highlighted as common. That's why I assumed it was common. Not sure though.

 

This IS a common problem with many games/apps running in XP. Unfortunately, the solution offered at the Microsoft support site(in the link above) does not work for around %50 of people for some complicateed technical reason and the only surefire way of fixing this is to get someone to send you the three files, preferably in a self-executing extractor that will unload them into the correct places on your HD.

I went through this a while back and tried everything the Microsoft tech support people could throw at me before I found a file at one of those computer tech support forums posted by some guru which contained the correct and fuctional files all in a convenient self-extracting exe. which I still have if anyone needs me to send it to them. Otherwise do a Google search for "XPHomefiles.exe". it should be about 92 KB and posted at a tech support type MB in a thread about this very issue.

 

How do I send you the file? I tried to email you through your profile but that does not seem to allow me to attach files.

 

Okay, sent.

 

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have this problem on a new pc and couldnt re-install any of my old games ... i was just gonna search the ms website for a solution, but this is exacly what i needed

thanks

[ June 06, 2005, 00:26: Message edited by: Bard ]

 

crap, everytime i do the first step, after i hit enter it says "not a destination file"

it does that with all the entries except the last one. with the last one it says the error message at the very start when I tried to install BG

 

i ran into this problem a few months back, but not with BG. It was with Quake3, but that's besides the point. If you don't feel like downloading specific files you could just have a spare AUTOEXEC.NT file sitting around with specific things typed into it.

@echo off
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\mscdexnt.exe
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\redir
lh %SystemRoot%\system32\dosx
SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 P330 T3

have that in your AUTOEXEC.NT and just keep a copy on the harddrive so whenever this error occurs again (with my experience it will occur many times) and whenever it happens copy it back to the system32 folder CWinNT\system32 I believe is the default... i'm not on my XP system right now so i can't doublecheck that location until i get the friggin' thing fixed, but if anyone is interested in this method, it's there now.
The whole problem with this is for some reason XP is deleting AUTOEXEC.NT periodically... so it won't run anything that can be automatically run, some installers, autorun files within CD's/DVD's, all kinds of things. But even without doing this fix, there is usually a way around things, but I think it's better to just go with the fix. Hopes this helps anyone who has a problem with the fix mentioned above, or who for some reason like this method better.

 

I'm pretty sure the problem mentioned in that Microsoft support link is one I had a while back and is caused by the file being moved or deleted (usually by spyware). I actually found that in XP there's a file named repair in the XP installation somewhere, can't recall exactly where, but I think it was in the main folder. Inside that there's a spare copy of the files needed so you just copy whatever you're missing into System32.

 

hello everyone, ive tried the answeres up at the top about the WinXP constant crashing / restarting but nothing seems to work for me! ive tried copying over the proper winxp files but i notice no change and BG still crashes on me, every 5ish mins or if i leave it alone then it freezes.

if anyone has any other ideas PLEASE help me!! it does this with BG2 aswell!!

 

I had problems with graphics, black squares in the inventory and on the game screen only started when I installed larger graphics card. (Ran fine with onboard graohics using XP home sev/pck 3.) Tried a few things to sort out the problem in the end I just downloaded the latest drivers for the graphics card, BGtotsc/soa/tob all run sweet. Game speed 40 but can take it to 60.

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As For freezing BG (sometimes) NWN series (all the time) Icewindale ?? Haven't bothered to reinstall at this time, Dragonshard freezes on install. Pretty sure processor is on the way out BG has it running at 100%