Help me with black boxes on Vista please

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Hello all.
I used to see a lot of posts about vista problems but now it seems they are all gone when I got my copy of Vista...can someone help me with this graphic issue? What do I need to do to get rid of annoying black boxes in the game?
Thanks in advance.

 

The Bigg made a thread about graphics at SHS forums and what to do, but otherwise If you want help here you might want to tell us ie your graphic card 32/64 bit Vista and so on. A search on google could prove usefull too.
BTW rumours tells me that Windows 7 Beta is quiet good - also for BG games

 

Hi. Much thanks for the reply. If you would tell me what this SHS forum is I am more than willing to just look it up...
Mine is Windows Vista 32-bit version with nVidia 8600M GT, how much impact do these have?

 

The SHS post from "the bigg" is at IE games and NVidia Series 8 video cards

SP guru olimikrig just posted a great nHancer profile and tips on this, as well, right below this thread about 4 or so links: here. he was helping out with Vistax64, but I suspect it would work just as well on the x32 side of things.

 

Hello guys.
I have tried what I read on that forum and what Taluntin said, but that just makes the screen flicker and its very painful x_x!
Is this only my problem? Disable the 3D acceleration and it would become normal but the blackboxes will be there.

 

I guess this post is already dead, haha.
Damn the vista for ruining my BG2!!

 

Try ask Jarno at SHS forums

 

I'm guessing you using a GeForce 8+ series card? It's a little hard to give you much assistance when we don't know anything about your hardware specs (might be the problem isn't exactly related to vista you see).

If so disable all those fancy options in your nvidia/nhancer profile (or have them aplication controlled). No AA, no anistropic, no HDR disable it all.

then try and copy+paste this baldur.ini (if you haven't already)

Code:

[Program Options]
Debug Mode=1
Installing=0
Install Type=3
GLSetup Driver=-1
16Bit Textures=1
Resolution=[b]your resolution here. copy from original baldur.ini[/b]
BitsPerPixel=16
3D Acceleration=0
Maximum Frame Rate=30
Path Search Nodes=400000
Translucent Shadows=1
Force 50 Percent Transparent=0
Disable Brighten=1
Display Subtitles=1
Full Screen=0
SoftMirrorBlt=1
SoftBlt=1
SoftSrcKeyBlt=1
Disable Vertex Padding=0
Volume Movie=100
Volume Music=100
Volume Voices=100
Volume Ambients=100
Volume SFX=100
Font Name=
Double Byte Character Support=0
Drop Capitals=1
Display Frequency=60
Tooltips=60
Sprite Mirror=1
Gamma Correction=1
Brightness Correction=0
Backwards Compatible 3d=0
SoftSrcKeyBltFast=1
SoftBltFast=1
Strref On=0
First Run=0
[Alias]
HD0:=D:\Spil\BGII\
CD1:=D:\Spil\BGII\CD1\
CD2:=D:\Spil\BGII\CD2\;D:\Spil\BGII\CD2\
CD3:=D:\Spil\BGII\CD3\
CD4:=D:\Spil\BGII\CD4\
CD5:=D:\Spil\BGII\CD5\
[Game Options]
Memory Access=100
Memory Level=1
Difficulty Level=3
Automated Speed Adjustment=1
Enhanced Path Finding=1
Critical Hit Screen Shake=1
Low End Machine=0
Low End Machine 2=0
Footsteps=1
Attack Sounds=1
Low Mem Sounds 1=0
Low Mem Sounds 2=0
Pausing Map=0
Extra Feedback=0
Duplicate Floating Text=1
Disable Casting Glows=0
Disable VEFVidCells=0
Mid Level Brighten=1
High Level Brighten=1
Tiles Precache Percent=100
All Learn Spell Info=1
Automated Translucent Shadows=50
Automated Very Low Performance=30
Automated Low Performance=60
Automated Disable Brightest=40
Automated Limit Transparency=40
Automated Disable Casting Glows=40
Automated Disable VEFVidCells=30
Automated Mid Level Brighten=60
Automated High Level Brighten=80
Automated Foot Steps=70
Automated Attack Sounds=50
Automated 3D Animations=80
Automated Disable VVC Sounds=60
Automated Faster Blur=60
Disable Statics During Combat=0
Disable Footsteps During Combat=0
Disable Placed Sounds During Combat=0
Disable VVC Sounds=0
Faster Blur=0
Use 3d Animations=1
One Time Popup=1
Never Show Nuisance SOA=1
Current Loading Hint=19
Mouse Scroll Speed=36
GUI Feedback Level=5
Locator Feedback Level=3
Bored Timeout=3000
Always Dither=1
Subtitles=0
Keyboard Scroll Speed=36
Command Sounds Frequency=2
Selection Sounds Frequency=3
Effect Text Level=62
Infravision=0
Weather=1
Tutorial State=1
Auto Pause State=0
Auto Pause Center=1
Quick Item Mapping=1
Environmental Audio=1
Heal Party on Rest=0
Terrain Hugging=0
HP Over Head=0
Hotkeys On Tooltips=1
Area Effects Density=100
Filter Games=1
[Local]
Language=English
Language25=English
Zip=
Country Code=
[Uninstall]
Uninst_dir=C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield Installation Information\{8DAE4336-2B71-11D4-9A6C-006067325E47}
Uninst_dir_25=C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield Installation Information\{B8C3B479-1716-11D5-968A-0050BA84F5F7}
[GameSpy]
Enabled=1
Location=
[Config]
General=1
Graphics=1
Sound=1
CacheSize=1000
ConfigWidth=800
ConfigHeight=506
[MOVIES]
BISLOGO=1
BWDRAGON=1
WOTC=1
INTRO15F=1
RESTDUNG=1
[Lua Edit]
String0=CLUAConsole:ExploreArea()
String1=
String2=
String3=
String4=
String5=
String6=
String7=
String8=
String9=

to my knowledge the most important of these features are:
SoftMirrorBlt=1
SoftBlt=1
SoftSrcKeyBlt=1
BitsPerPixel=16

If the problem still persists, or if new ones arise play around with the settings in baldur.ini. Pretty much the best advice I can give. If you back up your original baldur.ini you can always restore that. SO just play around with the options, and see if you can get it to work.

 

(where it says

Code:

[Alias]
HD0:=D:\Spil\BGII\
CD1:=D:\Spil\BGII\CD1\
CD2:=D:\Spil\BGII\CD2\;D:\Spil\BGII\CD2\
CD3:=D:\Spil\BGII\CD3\
CD4:=D:\Spil\BGII\CD4\
CD5:=D:\Spil\BGII\CD5\

just edit in your location from your backed-up baldur.ini - it will be different. Mine runs something like cProgram Files(x86)\BGII\ )

 

Thanks for all the replies.
Unfortunately enough after copying the the ini.file there and editing it the game always makes my screen go towards the northwest corner of the map and I won't be able to scroll it anywhere making it more unplayable than ever (but yeah while it was automatically scrolling I indeed didn't see any black boxes on the floor around dropped items so in that matter this is working). I will maybe try messing with the ini file there but i really got no idea what's controlling the "automatic" screen scrolling...but much thanks for the posts.