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GOG is probably the best, yeah. It's only  and GOG is good about making sure their stuff runs on modern hardware.
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Mzbundifund posted:GOG is probably the best, yeah. It's only I have heard of some technical issues, though, but I can't remember well enough to warn you/help you. I have the GOG version, but I haven't played it in some years. There's a GOG-specific thread if you have any difficulties.
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Mzbundifund posted:GOG is probably the best, yeah. It's only Cool thanks for the confirmation. I was trying to be patient to wait for Beamdog to hopefully do an IWD2 redux but I am impatient and do not remember any glaring bugs the first time around so gently caress it. JustJeff88 posted:I have heard of some technical issues, though, but I can't remember well enough to warn you/help you. I have the GOG version, but I haven't played it in some years. There's a GOG-specific thread if you have any difficulties. Thanks for the heads up! I'm in Win7 so I am hoping I will not have any issues. I can afford so if it is completely hosed I wont be that annoyed I dont think.
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Jan 6, 2015 03:14
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If it's any help, I can confirm that the GOG version of Baldur's Gate 1 & 2 work swimmingly on my Windows 7. Not sure about Icewind though.
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Jan 6, 2015 03:27
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Both GOG IWDs work fine. I never finished IWD2 but I did not encounter any bugs.
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I really wish I could get into IWD2 but it's so loving difficult unless you are resting ALL the time, at which point I find it really immersion-breaking. The xp scaling thing irks me too. Seems like such a great game and I just can't do it.
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Jan 6, 2015 05:35
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Gaggins posted:Both GOG IWDs work fine. I never finished IWD2 but I did not encounter any bugs. The IWD2 interface is a bit wonky with widescreen mod installed. Other than that, it's fine on Win 7 & 8.
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Jan 6, 2015 05:37
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FairGame posted:I really wish I could get into IWD2 but it's so loving difficult unless you are resting ALL the time, at which point I find it really immersion-breaking. The xp scaling thing irks me too. What kind of party are you playing?
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Jan 6, 2015 05:41
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Bort Bortles posted:What kind of party are you playing? It varies. Usually some combination of a bard, priest of tempus, priest of helm, wizard, sorcerer, and high dex fighter with light armor and the ability to fight with two weapons. It's not a party construction issue. I'm just too stingy with my spells.
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Jan 6, 2015 06:04
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The GoG version of IWD2 is mostly fixed by how they rehacked the rendering, but there's still some people who run into awful rendering bugs. Either case its highly recommended over the disc version and the direct x wizardry you need to run it without it ripping your eyeballs out.
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FairGame posted:I really wish I could get into IWD2 but it's so loving difficult unless you are resting ALL the time, at which point I find it really immersion-breaking. The xp scaling thing irks me too. This is a problem with 3rd edition D&D (and 2nd edition, really). If you design encounters around players needing to use their spells, then they need to rest between each one. If you don't, then players will just destroy the encounter if they do use them (and then die on the encounter they were supposed to use them on). There's too wide a gap between the combat potential of a party going all-out and a party being resource conservative.
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Jan 6, 2015 07:41
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Apart from the battle square and monastery trials I generally only needed to rest once a map in IWD2.
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Jan 6, 2015 08:26
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IWD2 doesn't work on Windows 8, full stop. If someone can contradict this I'd love to hear about it. Every other infinity engine game does however. If you aren't running Windows 8 GOG is your best place to buy IWD2.
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Jan 6, 2015 08:44
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Works for me, but it's been ages so I don't remember if I've done anything special to get it to run. Edit: after looking through my install folder, I imagine this had something to do with it. Octo1 fucked around with this message at 09:08 on Jan 6, 2015 |
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I'm on win8 and IWD2 runs fine, although I had to fiddle with the ini or properties or something.
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Ratios and Tendency posted:I'm on win8 and IWD2 runs fine, although I had to fiddle with the ini or properties or something. What parts did you fiddle with?
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Skwirl posted:What parts did you fiddle with? I don't remember but it must have been off the first few pages of google results. What happens when you try to start the game?
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Jan 6, 2015 09:33
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Try the compatibility modes. If that fails and if the DirectDraw patch doesn't work in Windows 8, you can achieve the same result using the Application Compatibility Toolkit, which in Windows 8 is part of the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK).
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Octo1 posted:Works for me, but it's been ages so I don't remember if I've done anything special to get it to run. I have 8.1 and GOG version of IWD2 works like crap. After putting files from this same link, game works much better. There's constant UI flickering but it's at least playable. We really need EE version.
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Ratios and Tendency posted:I don't remember but it must have been off the first few pages of google results. What happens when you try to start the game? I'm not using a windows 8 machine at the moment, but when I was (6 months ago maybe) all the googling I did mostly resulted in cackling laughter. Someone should at least post what worked for them on the GoG forums.
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Buck Turgidson posted:Try the compatibility modes. If that fails and if the DirectDraw patch doesn't work in Windows 8, you can achieve the same result using the Application Compatibility Toolkit, which in Windows 8 is part of the Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK). Or you can just turn on 3D acceleration in the game settings. 
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Airfoil posted:The IWD2 interface is a bit wonky with widescreen mod installed. Other than that, it's fine on Win 7 & 8. This helps: http://havredest.eklablog.fr/interfaces-pour-widescreen-a42876917 Smol posted:Or you can just turn on 3D acceleration in the game settings. IWD2 does not have any 3D acceleration, unfortunately. Only IWD. If there is an EE version, I'd expect it to be a while away. IWD2 is pretty different to the other games, with all it's quasi-3E and stuff (something that would be really awesome: EE version of IWD2, and then running BG1/2 and IWD under that ruleset).
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Jan 6, 2015 12:57
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kujeger posted:If there is an EE version, I'd expect it to be a while away. IWD2 is pretty different to the other games, with all it's quasi-3E and stuff (something that would be really awesome: EE version of IWD2, and then running BG1/2 and IWD under that ruleset).
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kujeger posted:WD2 does not have any 3D acceleration, unfortunately. Only IWD. Oh it didn't? My bad, it's been a while since I played it. But anyhow, I had some getting BG2 work on Windows 8 and turning on 3D acceleration was the easiest way to fix that.
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Factor_VIII posted:You'd literally need to manually recreate every NPC and creature under the 3E ruleset though. A ton of work for very little return. Though I suppose modders could eventually produce such a version. http://weidu.org/iwg2/ it was a ton of work, which is probably why it never got finished.
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Smol posted:Oh it didn't? My bad, it's been a while since I played it. But anyhow, I had some getting BG2 work on Windows 8 and turning on 3D acceleration was the easiest way to fix that. Yeah, IWD2 is generally the least friendly of the IE games for modern computers, ironically -- since it is also the newest of them. edit: IIRC, ropekid explained that the 3d acceleration was removed since it was troublesome to get to work with the computers of the time, and there wasn't enough time to fix it. edit2: For the adventurous, I can mention that IWD2 works great with Wine under Linux! kujeger fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Jan 6, 2015 |
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Dyna Soar posted:http://weidu.org/iwg2/
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kujeger posted:Yeah, IWD2 is generally the least friendly of the IE games for modern computers, ironically -- since it is also the newest of them. I think I've sold my discs or I'd check. zedprime fucked around with this message at 15:05 on Jan 6, 2015 |
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Factor_VIII posted:True. What I find interesting is that someone apparently recreated BG1 under NWN2, which indicates that modders are willing to put in a ton of work on this sort of project. Out of curiosity, has anyone played through that mod? How did it go? I didn't get through the whole thing, but its buggy as hell and has some major balance issues at low levels. Other than that it was a really faithful recreation, but I personally would rather just play BG.
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From the screenshots it looks almost like playing through BG1 in Cutscene-Render mode  (NWN1-NWN2 have not aged well graphically at all  )
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So I am mentally ill and as such I want to play Big World Project but I am having a hell of a time installing it. I tried to follow the instructions buried in the current LP but the whole "virtual drive" thing is way over my head. I also never got that nice graphical UI he seemed to have. I tried to follow the instructions on the mod installer and managed to track down and install all the required mods, answered a ton of questions , and started the install. It was chugging along fine for a few hours and other then clicking stuff now and then, it seemed to be working. I walked away to go to dinner and when I came back the installer was not running and I had a BG trilogy shortcut on my desktop. I ran it and played to the FRI but it seemed like a normal game. I know the installer is supposed to take like 24 hours so I assume it hosed up somehow. Does anyone know of a really really idiot proof install walkthrough?
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Dyna Soar posted:nwn2 is really ugly Our game may look like poo poo but gently caress me if we're not going to BUMP-MAP THE poo poo outta that ground
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NWN2 is truly a work of art. It's hard to imagine how they could produce such revolting 3D models.
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it's pretty much the last "modern" rpg I tried to play. it was so clunky, ugly and the plot was just, meh, and I gave up after like, 5 hours. I really hope pillars of eternity or numenera will be good.
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What's the point of the Harper Hold quest in BG2, where you have to accompany Jaheira back to the Harper building, end up fighting Reivar or whatever his name is - and that's about it. Seems a crappy interruption in the middle of the game.
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BadAstronaut posted:What's the point of the Harper Hold quest in BG2, where you have to accompany Jaheira back to the Harper building, end up fighting Reivar or whatever his name is - and that's about it. Seems a crappy interruption in the middle of the game. It's a series of quests, won't make much sense just by themselves. Starts with the first two, Renfeld and Xzar & Montaron. Then if you have Jaheira in your party, which I'm assuming you do, you ge the rest. The outcome of them depend on your reputation, but you can finish the questline with any reputation I think. You're just gonna have to fight more if it's low, you just won't get the reward at the end (harper pin + a poo poo load of exp iirc.) There's like, 7 or 8 quests with the Harpers.
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Ah OK, so it's not over. That makes more sense. It seemed such a strange 'go here and answer some questions and fight the end' aside. Yes, I havenever played through BG2 with both Minsc and jaheira and I'm going to try keep them all the way through now.
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