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10-17-2003, 10:09 PM
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Ma'at - Goddess of Truth & Justice
 Join Date: June 3, 2003
Location: New York
Age: 40
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When I play BG2, it runs pretty slow. The movement is kinda jerky, and during battle, it gets extremely slow. I literally spend so much time waiting for each area to load that I could just get up, get a snack, come back, and still have it not be loaded sometimes. If you need to know, I have BG2 on:
Windows ME 700 MHz 64 MB RAM 20 GB 48x max speed CD-rom And I have done a recommended install. In ToB, I did a full install and it runs a bit faster and loads much quicker, but it's still pretty slow. And I don't want to transfer to my Windows XP because I don't want to take up space and have it slow down the computer. Can anyone help me out to have it go faster? Has anyone else experienced this?
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10-17-2003, 10:36 PM
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Knight of the Rose
   Join Date: July 11, 2002
Location: Coral Springs, Fl USA
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You might try new RAM and a faster Processor. Umm what kind of RAM do you have anyway? Also any kind of special vid card?
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10-18-2003, 03:54 AM
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Harper
 Join Date: October 2, 2001
Location: Aberdeen, Scotland
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Try turning 3d acceleration off. Unlike most games, IE has no polygons so the 3d card cannot accelerate anything other than the special effects, and the special effect routines are sometimes much slower than the software versions. If it is off, try turning it on.
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10-18-2003, 05:27 AM
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Silver Dragon
  Join Date: December 28, 2002
Location: Wales
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The two simple ways to make the game faster in your case:
1) Full install 2) More RAM Personally, I'd do the full install first (free). If you still arent happy with the performance, get a techie mate to pop some more RAM into your system for you and be amazed at how fast your system has just become 
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10-18-2003, 05:30 AM
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Fzoul Chembryl
 Join Date: July 16, 2003
Location: Wa\'eni\'n
Age: 39
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Also, check your pc for spyware, it seriously decreases your performance...
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10-18-2003, 05:34 AM
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Zartan
 Join Date: May 20, 2003
Location: Near Aberdeen, Scotland
Age: 36
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if 3d graphics isnt on then dont put it on like andrewas said because that WILL make it slower
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10-18-2003, 11:47 AM
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 Join Date: June 16, 2003
Location: Home
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Five things:
1. Do a full install 2. In the Bgconfig, lower the 'general', 'graphics', and 'sound' to 'Minimum Machine'. If you lower it again, you may not hear anything while playing. 3. Turn off all of the 3d options 4. Use the 16 bit 2d color depth 5. Pick 640 X 480 game resolution option Hope it helps. Edit: Oh yeah, try to also turn off any program that runs behind your computer by pressing ctrl+alt+del and turning off all tasks except explorer and systray. [ 10-18-2003, 11:49 AM: Message edited by: BaRoN NiGhT ] |
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10-18-2003, 02:34 PM
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Dungeon Master
 Join Date: August 31, 2003
Location: Illinois
Age: 51
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64 megs of RAM isn't very much. your processor is fast enough. in my experiences RAM is the main factor on your speed. i am running BG2 on a Pent II 450 Mhz. with 256 RAM and it runs great. only other thing that it may be is your graphics settings as they said above.
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10-18-2003, 02:56 PM
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Galvatron
 Join Date: December 14, 2001
Location: Israel
Age: 38
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Try this. Go to "Start" -> "Run" and enter "dxdiag". Under the "Display" tab, disable DirectDraw acceleration. After a few years of playing BG2, I *still* can't understand what they were thinking when they wrote the graphics engine...
 ADD] ...and don't forget to enable it when playing other games.  [ 10-18-2003, 03:00 PM: Message edited by: Alson ]
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10-18-2003, 04:11 PM
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Manshoon
 Join Date: October 11, 2003
Location: Sweden
Age: 37
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I play on a
Windows 98 300 MHz 64 MB RAM 6 GB 48x max speed CD-rom and cheesiest of all: NO 3D CARD! Still I have general,sound AND grapichs in the higest settings and it floats perfect
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