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[Atnas]

Hey! I recently began playing Planescape Torment again since I had abrubtly stopped playing it because of graphical glitches. Lately I got this urge to finish it, since it's one of the few games to get me involved on an emotional level!

The problem is that whenever I cast spells, the screen flickers, slows down and sometimes outright crashes if there's very demanding stuff going on. I've looked around a lot and seen that disabling hardware acceleration seem to have helped many- however, it appears I can't change any of that because I'm on Win 7 with a Nvidia GT8800. I tried download a fix uh... "biggs" had, but it didn't help either. I've got no clue what to do and it's extremely frustrating because I can't continue as it is, even though I really, REALLY want to!

Would appreciate help greatly

[_JC_]

Have you tried running the game in one of the older compatibility modes. XP for example, it might help.

[Atnas]

I have, but it doesn't seem to help! The only thing I've seen that seem to work is to turn off that hardware acceleration, but it can't be done. I saw someone who got it to work on Vista by turning on software... things in the video options, but that didn't work for me either!

There's nothing that can be done for a Windows 7?

[Jarno Mikkola]

'Atnas', on 04 August 2010 - 05:15 PM, said:

There's nothing that can be done for a Windows 7?

Have you "turned off" both the UAC and the PCA ?
You do it like this in Windows7; UAC: Control Panel -> User Accounts and Family Safety -> User Accounts -> Change Your User Account Control settings... set to the bottom most option and done.
PCA: Push the Start -> type to the console: gpedit.msc and start it, then User Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Application Compatibility, in where you double click the option "Turn off Program Compatibility Assistant", and inside its configuration mark the "Enabled" -> Apply -> OK. And after those you need to restart the computer. for them to take effect...
The PCA in a x64 system for example have been known to not allow the BGII - ToB's patch program(26498) to patch the BGMain.exe, which makes the game unusable... Macro Hard Worm Doors.

[Atnas]

The first one was already fixed, and I 'enabled' the second one and restarted. This was so I'd able to adjust the hardware acceleration, right? I couldn't change it even now though, it's all greyed out

[Jarno Mikkola]

'Atnas', on 04 August 2010 - 10:24 PM, said:

The first one was already fixed, and I 'enabled' the second one and restarted. This was so I'd able to adjust the hardware acceleration, right? I couldn't change it even now though, it's all greyed out

The second one is so you can install tools that can help you, and the install actions actually take effects as the windows safety protocols don't prevent overwritings etc.... the hardware acceleration on Nvidia GT8800 might be disabled by default... so you cannot change that, but you might need to install the nvidia fix again.

[Atnas]

Didn't work either, sadly! Man this is frustrating haha, I really want to finish the game! A friend suggested downloading some virtual... well, thing that would let me emulate (simulate?) an older OS like Windows 98 or something, but I'm not sure if I like the sound of that at all.

[Atnas]

Gah! Haven't been able to fix it yet, and so I've begun playing with it. Horrible!

[Ipsissimus]

Try running it in Compatibility mode, maybe?

[Atnas]

I have, but it wont launch at all and I have no idea why.

Another strange thing that has been happening is the models kind of... being slippery. Sometimes they slide back and forth on the spot aswell, this happens to both NPCs and PCs. They also tend to do the run animation in one direction, while they are actually running in another. It's all terribly annoying and I have no idea what causes it and even more importantly, how to solve it =/

[Atnas]

Ah fuck, now I'm in real trouble. I've reached the fortress of regrets, but I cannot progress since the caster heavy meetings (fall-from-grace) result in a crash to desktop. I can't stand coming so far and ending it here =/

[Atnas]

Halleluja and fuck yes!

http://www.shsforums...other-ie-games/

This solved it Granted, I can barely see the dialogue options at the bottom but it all flows smoothly and without a hitch! Thank god for these forums