BG2 seems to appears to run fine at every possible graphical setting.... Until I try resting. When ever I click the rest button I see the first frame of the rest movie and then it crashes and askes me of I want to send the error report to microsoft.

Any ideas whats causing this or how to work around it? I think a quick fix maybe to disable all ingame movies if that's possible somehow.

Thanks!

Open the baldur.ini file in the main BG2 Directory and under [Program Options] add the line

Disable Movies=1

If the game still crashes when movies are disabled, add the line Logging On=1 to baldur.ini under [Program Options], start and crash the game and post the contents of your baldur.err file.

Still crashes, heres the log:

---------------------Start Logging Session---------------------

CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3741, 2801 ) #:14614751 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3720, 2826 ) #:14680288 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3672, 2910 ) #:14614751 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3640, 2874 ) #:14680288 R:14

I managed to somehow get it to not crash for alittle while and then this happened:


---------------------Start Logging Session---------------------

CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3741, 2801 ) #:14614751 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3720, 2826 ) #:14680288 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3672, 2910 ) #:14614751 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3640, 2874 ) #:14680288 R:14


---------------------Start Logging Session---------------------

CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3672, 2910 ) #:14614751 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3640, 2874 ) #:14680288 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3672, 2910 ) #:14614751 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3640, 2874 ) #:14680288 R:14


---------------------Start Logging Session---------------------

CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3672, 2910 ) #:14614751 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3640, 2874 ) #:14680288 R:14


---------------------Start Logging Session---------------------

CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3672, 2910 ) #:14614751 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3640, 2874 ) #:14680288 R:14


---------------------Start Logging Session---------------------

CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3672, 2910 ) #:14614751 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3640, 2874 ) #:14680288 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3672, 2910 ) #:14614751 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3640, 2874 ) #:14680288 R:14


---------------------Start Logging Session---------------------

CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3672, 2910 ) #:14614751 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3640, 2874 ) #:14680288 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3672, 2910 ) #:14614751 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3640, 2874 ) #:14680288 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 4029, 2759 ) #:196611 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3898, 2676 ) #:131074 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3864, 2706 ) #:15073510 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3832, 2706 ) #:15139047 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3800, 2670 ) #:15204584 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 3898, 2676 ) #:15270121 R:14


---------------------Start Logging Session---------------------

CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 681, 2437 ) #:16908546 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 680, 2322 ) #:16974083 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 728, 2406 ) #:17039620 R:14
CVisibilityMap::AddCharacter : ( 808, 2310 ) #:17105157 R:14

That's baldur.log, not baldur.err.

Just edited it

In baldur.err(accidently posted baldur.log) I had this:

---------------------Start Logging Session---------------------



---------------------Start Logging Session---------------------



---------------------Start Logging Session---------------------



---------------------Start Logging Session---------------------



---------------------Start Logging Session---------------------



---------------------Start Logging Session---------------------



---------------------Start Logging Session---------------------



---------------------Start Logging Session---------------------



---------------------Start Logging Session---------------------

Well, if it crashes with movies turned off and there are no error messages you're in for a treat (i.e. it could be anything).

Got any mods installed?

Mods? No, nothing added to what the GOG install included. I installed it on 2 different computers and both of them seem to work find now. So something on my main computer is causing BG2 to not like the resting event.

It happens both in wilderness / at Inn?
From the very beginning of the game, or did it worked and suddenly stopped?

Sorry for these one-question-at-time posts, but without logged errors it'll be hard to pinpoint the cause.

And, sometimes the simplest fix: in case of Vista/Win7, are you running the game as the administrator?

I can't really progress on my main computer because it always crashes when you click rest regardless of if the movies are disabled. So yes, from the very beginning and I cant get any further since I kind of need to rest for HP and spells.

I am running this in windows XP.

For reference BG1 runs perfect, I had no problems until the final battle where it'd crash with an assertion error no matter what I did. I spent close to 3 hours hunting up and trying fixes before saying "SCREW IT!" and using the console cheats to kill sevan0sdfskldf-or-what-ever-his-name-was. First I spawned drizzt and run out of sight, game still crashed so I resorted to the ctrl+y insta-kill cheat.

side note
After playing BG2 on my backup computer for a couple hours: I am really impressed with it so far. I never played it before(just BG1) so I didn't know what to expect. It feels JUST like BG1 only more polished and fleshed out. The dialog so far has been excellent. The story has the same same dark-foreboding feel just like BG1