shadowmirage: As the title states, Baldur's Gate crashes every fifteen minutes on my MacBook Pro OSX 10.8.5 with the following error message: "The program BGMain2.exe has encountered a serious problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience."

This has made the game frustratingly unplayable, especially when the crashes occur right after a difficult battle. Has anyone else encountered this problem and is there a solution to it?

Hardware info:

CPU: 2.5 GHz Intel Core i5
RAM: 4 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
GPU: Intel HD Graphics 4000

Thank you in advance, I'll provide more information if required.

wolf81: Happens to me all the time. Really annoying. Right now I'm in Durlag's Tower, at the level with the Wisdom tome and game crashes every single time when fighting the crazed mage.

I really think it's some sort of spell effect that causes these crashes, cause I too seem to get crashes most often during fights.

Playing on a 15" MacBook Pro from mid 2014, no mods installed, just a custom portrait used.

My crash log looks like this:

err:font:AddFaceToList Ignoring L"@Tsukushi A Round Gothic Regular" because name is too long
err:font:AddFaceToList Ignoring L"Avenir Next Condensed Ultra Light" because name is too long
err:font:AddFaceToList Ignoring L"Avenir Next Condensed Ultra Light" because name is too long
err:font:AddFaceToList Ignoring L"@Tsukushi B Round Gothic Regular" because name is too long
fixme:win:EnumDisplayDevicesW ((null),0,0x33aff4,0x00000000), stub!
fixme:ddraw:ddraw_surface7_Flip Ignoring flags 0x1.
wine: Unhandled page fault on read access to 0x00000020 at address 0x7c9543 (thread 0028), starting debugger...
fixme:event:wait_for_withdrawn_state window 0x10068/1000001 wait timed out
Unhandled exception: page fault on read access to 0x00000020 in 32-bit code (0x007c9543).
Register dump:
CS:001b SS:0023 DS:0023 ES:0023 FS:103f GS:000f
EIP:007c9543 ESP:020ef494 EBP:00002b84 EFLAGS:00010202( R- -- I - - - )
EAX:00000000 EBX:00000000 ECX:02f5dd20 EDX:02f608a4
ESI:0000547c EDI:02f608a4
Stack dump:
0x020ef494: 00002b84 02f608a4 0000547c 00000028
0x020ef4a4: 00000000 008b03e0 007d804e 00000000
0x020ef4b4: 02f608a4 0000547c 00c71fb4 00d549c8
0x020ef4c4: 00002b84 00000027 007d53ad 00000001
0x020ef4d4: 02f608a4 0000547c ffffffff 00008000
0x020ef4e4: 00008000 0c16df50 007d2e33 18181818
0207: sel=103f base=7ff50000 limit=00000fff 32-bit rw-
Backtrace:
=>0 0x007c9543 in bgmain2 (+0x3c9543) (0x00002b84)
0x007c9543: movl 0x20(%ebx),%eax
Modules:
Module Address Debug info Name (24 modules)
PE 400000- 8bb000 Export bgmain2
PE 419a0000-419a4000 Deferred ws2_32
PE 41ee0000-41ee4000 Deferred version
PE 44920000-4494e000 Deferred user32
PE 44a60000-44a64000 Deferred gdi32
PE 44be0000-44be4000 Deferred advapi32
PE 44c60000-44c72000 Deferred comdlg32
PE 44cd0000-44ddf000 Deferred shell32
PE 44ed0000-44ed4000 Deferred shlwapi
PE 44f50000-44f56000 Deferred winspool
PE 44f90000-44f94000 Deferred dplayx
PE 44fe0000-44fe4000 Deferred msacm32
PE 45810000-45830000 Deferred comctl32
PE 45960000-45968000 Deferred ole32
PE 45ab0000-45ab4000 Deferred rpcrt4
PE 45b40000-45b44000 Deferred dsound
PE 45ba0000-45ba4000 Deferred ddraw
PE 45e00000-45e04000 Deferred imm32
PE 45e30000-45e34000 Deferred winex11
PE 46090000-46094000 Deferred mmdevapi
PE 47810000-47817000 Deferred oleaut32
PE 7a810000-7a814000 Deferred opengl32
PE 7b810000-7b866000 Deferred kernel32
PE 7bc10000-7bc14000 Deferred ntdll
Threads:
process tid prio (all id:s are in hex)
00000008 (D) C:\GOG Games\Baldur's Gate\BGMain2.exe
00000029 15
00000028 2 <==
00000027 15
00000026 0
00000025 0
00000023 0
00000022 0
00000009 0
0000000e services.exe
0000001d 0
0000001c 0
00000014 0
00000010 0
0000000f 0
00000012 winedevice.exe
0000001b 0
00000018 0
00000017 0
00000013 0
00000019 plugplay.exe
0000001f 0
0000001e 0
0000001a 0
00000020 explorer.exe
00000021 0

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Crash always seems to happen after the mage casts his first Dimension Door, Chaotic Commands and Mirror Image. The spell that follows after Mirror Image might be the culprit. Or perhaps something is wrong with Mirror Image itself when casted by (blurred) enemy?

Owdar: In case anyone was thinking of trawling the previous threads for a solution, I have done so and couldn't see one.

I seem to remember there is an option to disable spell effects in the BG config programme which might help, but I can't figure out how to open it in the Mac version. Has anyone been able to do this?

:)

gcalancea: The issue still exists, just wanted to make this thread up to date