Posted February 03, 2011
Hey there all, just recently stumbled across this website and after some dithering decided to take the plunge and buy BG and BGII. I installed both games and started them both up to see if they worked okay.
I was having the common issue with black blocks appearing around objects in BG (graphics card), but I read that this wasn't a problem with 2, and so I decided to check out BGTuTu (which was my plan from the start).
The game looks fine with TuTu running, and I'm enjoying it greatly. But I'm finding terrible problems with it slowing down massively whenever there's a lot going on. This was a problem with the unmodified BG as well, so I don't think this is a TuTu issue. I've turned off ambient sounds and played about with the graphics settings, and occasionally find a combination that seems to improve things but nothing with any significant benefit. So far the worst instances are where spells are cast - entangle turns the game into a sporadically moving slideshow for example.
I read that installing to progame files might be the problem, so I reinstalled both games and TuTu to a GOG directiry which is in my root drive, but again no real benefit.
I know my rig should be comfortably handle this (it can run Dragon Age for example) so I presume its a vista / bg thing, and was wondering if the community here can provide any advice / tips. Any help greatfully received!
[Also (and this is probably down to me being mollycoddled by newer games) but its quite difficult isn't it? I'm having to reload quite a bit to get around my team members dieing. Is there anything you can do to salvage them once hp goes below zero, or is that the end of that?]
I was having the common issue with black blocks appearing around objects in BG (graphics card), but I read that this wasn't a problem with 2, and so I decided to check out BGTuTu (which was my plan from the start).
The game looks fine with TuTu running, and I'm enjoying it greatly. But I'm finding terrible problems with it slowing down massively whenever there's a lot going on. This was a problem with the unmodified BG as well, so I don't think this is a TuTu issue. I've turned off ambient sounds and played about with the graphics settings, and occasionally find a combination that seems to improve things but nothing with any significant benefit. So far the worst instances are where spells are cast - entangle turns the game into a sporadically moving slideshow for example.
I read that installing to progame files might be the problem, so I reinstalled both games and TuTu to a GOG directiry which is in my root drive, but again no real benefit.
I know my rig should be comfortably handle this (it can run Dragon Age for example) so I presume its a vista / bg thing, and was wondering if the community here can provide any advice / tips. Any help greatfully received!
[Also (and this is probably down to me being mollycoddled by newer games) but its quite difficult isn't it? I'm having to reload quite a bit to get around my team members dieing. Is there anything you can do to salvage them once hp goes below zero, or is that the end of that?]
Post edited February 03, 2011 by GoodOldBrow