What is the best OS for bgee and bg2ee?
EmilAmundsen
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I've been having some trouble with my bgee, and am appraching the point when I can no longer justify the effort to make it work. Problem explaned here: http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/25189/bgee-v1-2-0-works-fine-then-suddenly-starts-freezing-up#latest
I'm contemplating taking a shortcut and devoting a drive to the task.
In leu, what is the best operating system for running bgee and bg2ee, please?
I'm contemplating taking a shortcut and devoting a drive to the task.
In leu, what is the best operating system for running bgee and bg2ee, please?
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As to the best operating system. Not to be flip, but one that works would probably be the best.
I say that because I have 2 win 7 OS's running both of these games and not seeing any issues at all. I've happened to Beta Test the game on a 2 Windows 7 Laptops (One Mid/Low end, one Mid/High end), a Mac OS X Laptop, and a Win 7 Desktop...all of which runs the game without any difficulty. The game runs very well on both Windows 7 and Mac OS X. BG:EE Also runs (well is a matter of definition) on the iPad, well enough for me to beat it twice with only minor issues I expect 1.2 will more than fix.
My desktop is a rig similar to yours (Quad Core, 12G memory, Dual NVidia Cards in SLI, etc.) and I can't imagine doing ANYTHING within the game that would cause THAT to stutter.
I am playing with a Wireless Logitech Laser Mouse (one of the notebook models) on my Laptop without a problem.
Before you dump one OS for another, I would try replacing the mouse or re-installing your OS to see if the problem persists.
From a "best OS" perspective I'd say from the currently supported OS's, Win 7 is probably the most tested OS with Win 8 / 8.1 coming in shortly behind that and Mac OS X (various versions) coming in significantly behind that.
By "best" I do indeed mean "one that works", so your suggestion is spot on.
My thinking is, with only bgee having an issue on my rig it would be preferable to install a paralell win7 or "best os" on a different drive. This because doing that takes 2 hours instead of 2 days, and the issue may yet prove to be hardware with os-reinstall doing nothing..
Another big candidate are the net.framework 4.5 files in concert with my ATI-boards, making a new install potentially useless untill the files are updated by provider.
Based on your suggestion I may try it with a fresh install of win7. Thanks
Again "consolidating" threads here.
Will Comment on this in the other thread.