I need tech help with Baldur's Gate: The Original Saga

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Alright for some reason this game keeps locking up. Sometimes it takes a minute and sometimes it does it within a few seconds of starting the game. And I mean getting into the real game not the menus and character creation screens. The pc I'm using is old but should be able to handle this game easily.

I'm running windows 98 with a PII 350 mhz and a voodoo 3 2000 video card. I have directx9 and the newest 3rd party drivers for my video card.

Anybody have a clue?

[ January 13, 2003, 05:34: Message edited by: Telamon31 ]

 

Depending on which BG1 and TotSC you're running, the 5(?) cd set or the 3 cd set.

All I can think of is, if you're running the 5 cd set, you need to download the directx 8.x patch off the interplay site. That may fix your problem, but I don't know if you neccessarily need the patch if you have the 3 cd set, I haven't been able to find that out yet. But I'm running a slightly slower system than you are at times, but I do have a problem, if I've opened too many other things while the game is going, and if I don't reboot, the game slows right down on me, I believe this is likely to be a directx problem, either that or, my cpu speed.

I don't know if that helps any.

Jechor.

 

Actually for both of you. You may have too many programs running in the background and taking up too much of your system's resources.
Do a cntrl+alt+del. There should be a window that pops up and you can see everything you have running. All you really need to have runing in the background is systray and explorer.
In windows ME I do Start>run>msconfig. I then click on the start up tab and uncheck everthing not except those two. I'm sure you can find out how to do that in your version of windows. That way, when you boot your system you only have the needed stuff running. I found it best to have 93% or higher of your system resources free. I have just a pentium, but with 96% free I can even run the games that require a faster processor and not turn off shadows and stuff like that.

 

I'm running the three disc set. I've tried shutting down all but exploer and systray and it still locks up. There is no slowdown it just suddenly won't respond.

 

Hmm, so you don't have any virus programs running if you've closed down everything, right?
Do a scan disk and defrag, then try the game again.

 

Maybe you should get rid of that directX 9.0 and see what happens, may be that that's causing your troubles.

 

Try DirectX 8.1

 

I know that this is a stupid question, but how do you check to see what version of directX you have?

 

Start -> Run... -> then type in "dxdiag" without the quotes. It tells the version # at the bottom.