The Win95 fix worked - for a while. It was still a little laggy in some places, but I soldiered on. Even after it took me 33 minutes to cross the Gorian's Ambush screen. Finally, I decide it's time to go to Nashkel and grab Minsc. Get to the map screen, click on an area - screen turns white and PC is locked up. Restart, reload, same thing. I'm now stuck on the Gorian's Ambush screen. Any attempt to leave causes a crash. I can kill 33 minutes by walking across it, but that's about it.
Can confirm that on a HP EliteBook 2730p; Win 7 64bit; Mobile Intel GMA X4500 HD.
Video still choppy, but most in-game lag gone.
(1) \Documents\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition\Baldur.ini set to: INSERT INTO options ROWS ( 'Graphics', 'OpenGL Version', '1', 'Window', 'Full Screen', '1',
(2) \Program Files (x86)\BeamDog\Games\00766\Baldur.exe set to: Properties > Compatibility - Run in compatibility mode for: Windows 95 - Disable visual themes - Disable desktop composition - Disable display scaling on high DPI settings
(3) no further tweaks to drivers applied
Not ideal, but at least I can get my party from A to B without dozing off.
This worked for me! Still not great, but at least it's now playable. Been reading these forums for a while, but literally just signed up to offer thanks for that post.
Here it's running, but I can see no circles in the characters and there's no fog of war. It's kind strange...
I had the same problem, install newest graphic card drivers and it will be everything ok .
I did it. I have installed the newest graphic drivers to run the game. But still the this problem exist...
Well, updating the drivers fixed it for me but I guess maybe you have an slightly older processor (mine is a B960, barely made it in the intel update with Open GL compatibility), maybe you can try downloading one of the non-official dirvers suggested on the first post of this thread:
Maybe you could try finding out which chipset you have and use the search tool in the forums to find how other users worked aroud it. If the game otherwise runs ok I doubt this is an unfixable issue.
У меня интегрированная карточка intel, и все жутко тормозит. 3D ускорение не отключить, утилиты нет, ini не помогает. Есть решения? читать столько текста на инглише не могу. Буду благодарен за помощь.
I have a Gateway notebook with Intel graphics, NV79C54u, and apparently Intel and Gateway don't get along. I can't download drivers direct from Intel because it gives me a song and dance about custom drivers and I should go through Gateway, but Gateway's site is baffling. With the kind help provided by another poster, I set my compatibility to Windows 95, and it didn't help anything. The lag is still unbelievable. I emailed Gateway support to see if I can get a direct answer about which drivers to install. Maybe that'll help. I'm so frustrated right now. Not at the developers, necessarily, just frustrated by the problem, and I'm sure they are too. In a way, it's probably best that I can't do much besides tweak characters since I have a few more weeks of grading to worry about, but, but, but I've missed Minsc and Boo for so long...
@jhart1018 can't you download from http://downloadcenter.intel.com/ ? Select Graphics, then Laptop Graphics Drivers and your processor and you should be able to download latest drivers.
Extremely laggy with regards to combat, movement etc. My laptop is an Acer Aspire 5732z with the Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family. Opening movie is similarly unwatchable due to exterme lag.
@CaptainConor - if you get yours working please message me as I also have the Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family and BGEE is running very slowly. Opening video is horrible.
У меня интегрированная карточка intel, и все жутко тормозит. 3D ускорение не отключить, утилиты нет, ini не помогает. Есть решения? читать столько текста на инглише не могу. Буду благодарен за помощь.
Look at my comments from my profile, I have posted a solution that will make the game to run smoother. But I bet there a lot of other bugs and crashes in the game.
Yesterday the game didn't not crash but was lagging as hell. Today after I tried everything (updated drivers, edited ini. files, changed compatibility mode, run as admin ) it immediately crashes! what's going on?????
Well this is just marvelous. Having attempted to amend baldur.ini and fiddle with the compatibility settings, the game now just won't start at all from the launcher. I've removed what I added to baldur.ini and reset all compatibility issues, no luck. At least before I only had the framerate to contend with. The only thing I can think is that I've done more damage to the .ini than I can see.
This is an absolute shambles from Overhaul. Considering how widely used these graphics cards are it's ridiculous that the game wasn't properly tested. Congratulations on taking a decade-old game, breaking it and then charging $20 a pop for the end result.
I'm re-downloading and re-installing to C: this time to see if anything changes. I have one (noob) question about the .ini file Do spaces between words matter or not?
I'm uninstalling and waiting for a patch before I waste more time on this snake oil. The presence of all the shiny new 3D stuff is not a defence if what you introduce to the mix breaks the game.
...Wow... can't believe how riled this has got me. I suppose I was just expecting more from my favourite videogame series of all time. I feel like someone's taken the kindly old grandfather who raised me to RPG manhood and subjected him to hours of brutal, sadistic torment.
Hi All, I have registered just to let you folks know how I solved the laggy problem.
Here is configuration of my laptop. OS: Windows 7 SP1, 64-bit Video: Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family
1) Make sure you downloaded and installed the newest drivers from your video card company's website, NOT from your laptop company's website like Dell or Sony. In my case that was http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support 2) Set compatibility mode to Windows 95 for BGEE\Data\00766\Baldur.exe
ONLY in this order and ONLY both steps solved the problem for me.
I hope this helps someone.
My hero!
Fixed the gameplay lagging for me, tho the cinematics still seem sluggish.. don't suppose anyone has found a fix for that too on my Mobile Intel 4 chipset?
Hi All, I have registered just to let you folks know how I solved the laggy problem.
Here is configuration of my laptop. OS: Windows 7 SP1, 64-bit Video: Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family
1) Make sure you downloaded and installed the newest drivers from your video card company's website, NOT from your laptop company's website like Dell or Sony. In my case that was http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support 2) Set compatibility mode to Windows 95 for BGEE\Data\00766\Baldur.exe
ONLY in this order and ONLY both steps solved the problem for me.
I hope this helps someone.
@bg_secret_lover - After downloading the drivers I get an error message that they're NOT for my laptop...
Not able to paste a picture of the error message, but it reads:
"The driver being installed is not validated for this computer. Please obtain the appropriate driver from the computer manufacturer. Setup will exit."
WinXPSP2 with Processor: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz (2 CPUs)..can click on PLAY in Mainscreen and IMMEDIATELY appearing a Popup saying Bullshit-Microsoft-has-encountered-a-problem....
Win7-32Bit with Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.5GHz..can click on PLAY in Mainscreen and screen disappears...for good...NOTHING ever happens....
Hope the great Baldur Guys can fix it despite the [*"%"*%] Guys at Intel...May Sarevok devour them all if they dont fix that...
Thx Baldur's Gate Team for posting Updates about this issue, highly appreciated! Bansko
I couldn't update my drivers because apparently I have some custom setup, but I still managed to get BGEE to work with the Win95 compatibility. Hopefully it will work for you too!
@danefitch In addition to enabling the compatibility mode I also used "Disable visual themes", make sure to try that as well if the Win95 isn't enough.
Updated my Intel drivers and now on cliking play I only get a white rectangle. At least I can hear the music. Now I cannot even enter the game. From bad to worse. Smashing.
Unplayable. Back to playing my heavily modded 14-year-old BG game.
@moira - Made both changes, 95 and disable visual themes, black screen now. I'll have to uninstall my current video drivers and reinstall the updated Intel version I think.
@danefitch I saw this about white screen, maybe it could help with black screen as well? ALT+Enter tends to crash my BGEE but apparently it fixes glitches for many. Go figure... Anyway, best of luck!
Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition has stopped working appears right after clicking done to get out of the text for the intro story. I have made the necessary changes listed (fixed baldur.ini, updated driver, run in every compatibility mode available) and I can't seem to get through this screen. Intro video doesn't play, but I click on the blurry screen and it goes through it just fine. Any ideas on fixing this?
Running: Windows 8 Pro 64-Bit Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 2.00 GHz (laptop is 3 years old) Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family updated to the 9.3.0.1026
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Patiently waiting for a fix...
http://9xxssf.info/files/ -- 945 etc chipset
http://teknogods.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=8283 -- GMA4500MHD
Maybe you could try finding out which chipset you have and use the search tool in the forums to find how other users worked aroud it. If the game otherwise runs ok I doubt this is an unfixable issue.
But I bet there a lot of other bugs and crashes in the game.
http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/comment/151938/#Comment_151938
This is an absolute shambles from Overhaul. Considering how widely used these graphics cards are it's ridiculous that the game wasn't properly tested. Congratulations on taking a decade-old game, breaking it and then charging $20 a pop for the end result.
I have one (noob) question about the .ini file
Do spaces between words matter or not?
Intel Core 2 Duo processor T6400
Intel GMA 4500MHD
Laggy.. unfortunately unplayable. Baldur's Gate Trilogy works fine though? Is their a solution in an update given from Bioware on their releases?
...Wow... can't believe how riled this has got me. I suppose I was just expecting more from my favourite videogame series of all time. I feel like someone's taken the kindly old grandfather who raised me to RPG manhood and subjected him to hours of brutal, sadistic torment.
And they made me watch!
Fixed the gameplay lagging for me, tho the cinematics still seem sluggish.. don't suppose anyone has found a fix for that too on my Mobile Intel 4 chipset?
Not able to paste a picture of the error message, but it reads:
"The driver being installed is not validated for this computer. Please obtain the appropriate driver from the computer manufacturer. Setup will exit."
I'd appreciate any help with this. Thanks.
Win7-32Bit with Processor: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8700 @ 2.53GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.5GHz..can click on PLAY in Mainscreen and screen disappears...for good...NOTHING ever happens....
Hope the great Baldur Guys can fix it despite the [*"%"*%] Guys at Intel...May Sarevok devour them all if they dont fix that...
Thx Baldur's Gate Team for posting Updates about this issue, highly appreciated! Bansko
I couldn't update my drivers because apparently I have some custom setup, but I still managed to get BGEE to work with the Win95 compatibility. Hopefully it will work for you too!
In addition to enabling the compatibility mode I also used "Disable visual themes", make sure to try that as well if the Win95 isn't enough.
Updated my Intel drivers and now on cliking play I only get a white rectangle. At least I can hear the music. Now I cannot even enter the game. From bad to worse. Smashing.
Unplayable. Back to playing my heavily modded 14-year-old BG game.
I saw this about white screen, maybe it could help with black screen as well? ALT+Enter tends to crash my BGEE but apparently it fixes glitches for many. Go figure... Anyway, best of luck!
Running:
Windows 8 Pro 64-Bit
Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 2.00 GHz (laptop is 3 years old)
Mobile Intel 4 Series Express Chipset Family updated to the 9.3.0.1026
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Intel has 2 versions of drivers:
1) exe with validation
2) zip archive w/o validation
Try second ones.