IWD EE Very, very slow

auburn2

I just got IWD EE and it runs very, very slow. About 4-5 seconds to say cast sleep (not in a battle either).

Both BG and BG2 ran fine.

The computer is a Gateway laptop with a Turian X2 RM-72 dual core 2.1MHz, It 3 MB RAM and 92 GB of free hard disk space. It uses an ATI graphics card and is running Windows Vista.

Any idear to speed it up?

Jalily

Open baldur.ini and try adding this:

'Graphics',	'Shaders',	'0',

auburn2

Thanks, that helped a little bit but not much

Gate70

3mb RAM, that doesn't sound right.

You could check you have the latest driver for your graphics card and Vista. Do you know what model card and the current driver.

auburn2

3GB not 3 MB, my bad. According to IWD the graphics driver is ATI RAdeon HD 3200, open GL build 2.1.7980

Gate70

The memory and hard disk space sound sufficient, not familiar with the graphics card but you could check if it has the latest driver.

I think that will be http://support.amd.com/en-us/download and probably Catalyst 13.9
32 bit operating system: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=legacy2&os=Windows Vista - 32
64 bit operating system: http://support.amd.com/en-us/download/desktop/legacy?product=legacy2&os=Windows Vista - 64

Thorek85

I have the same problem with IWD:EE, the game runs slow on my laptop , i try to use ('Graphics', 'Shaders', '0',) option but still slower. BG:EE and BG2:EE runs perfectly

My system:
dell Inspiron 14 N4030
OS: Windows 8.1 with 6 gb ram.
Video: intel HD graphics (first gen) with the driver up to date!

quinnox

Yea, it is very slow for me too. The character takes a long time just to move (walks very slowly). And also, the character sprites are very "blurry". I think it is my ancient laptop which has integrated intel graphics in it. Oh well, I will be getting a new computer soon.

WebShaman

I have this problem as well - and it is really irritating! BG and BGII both run well - but IWD just sits there. It makes mass combat impossible, and disarming traps is...well, not very good - the trap gets triggered before the disarm, for example!!!)

I have a rather new ASUS, with a 2.1 GHZ Dual-Core AMD Processor, ATI 7XXX series graphics card with 1 GB, 8 GB RAM, and running Win 7 64 bit.

It looks like things have not been optimized to me. I also notice a repeating "block" of pause time about every 6 seconds, or so, where nothing moves (screen just freezes for about 2-3 seconds). Very, very frustrating!

WebShaman

Well, the suggestions offered here did improve performance, but I still get the rhythmic "hiccups" of pausing. Really, REALLY irritating!

Daughter_of_Hell

Did anyone figure out what causes this problem? I've got it too. Basically I can't play the game, because they just walk like so damn slow and it is lame. My computer is good enough to run the game fine, this shouldn't be happening. What causes it?

Daughter_of_Hell

Anybody?

Rik_Kirtaniya

Well this seems to be a two year old thread, but it came to my notice when I was searching for a solution to remove the lag in IWD EE. I started with a new party (not the pre-made one), and the game started lagging from the very beginning. I had almost given up all hopes, but then I found that the game runs fine with the pre-made party.
Actually it seems that the lag was being caused (in my case) due to custom portraits. I used EE Keeper (the save game editor) and I changed back the portraits to those which already come with the game, and to my great surprise, the game was running SUPER-SMOOTH !!! Well custom portraits was the problem in my case. If anyone who's facing lags, has used custom portraits, you might well try using the generic portraits and see if the lag vanishes. Good luck!
(At last I can play the game in peace.)