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[Krayzee]

Hi all,

Have spent the day on this reading forums, guides, trying various tweaks, reinstalls and have failed thus far. Please help! Bought and downloaded Baldur's Gate from GamersGate that includes Tales of the Sword Coast. I've Windows 7 Home and installed it to a folder outside the Program Files folders. Ran the game, started a new character and it ran fine. I then ran BG1Tweaks from Gibberlings3 and selected which ones I wanted to install. Again ran the game to check it, again working fine. Good so far, time to tidy the screen resolution and make it look nicer. I installed the Widescreen mod at 1280x800 (my monitor is capable of up to 1680x1050 but I don't need it at that), ran the game and during the game I get lag. If I exit to the game menu (save, load etc) there's no lag, it's only in the game itself. I've put the Ambient sounds down to 0, I've defragged my HDD, closed all programs so just BG running, but none removed the lag. I have an AMD Phenom II Quad core but have set BGMain.exe's (I'm using BGMain.exe to run the game, not Baldur.exe) affinity to one core - no joy. I've also been through your forum SHS' excellent guide containing things to check in the game, again to no avail.

It's also worth noting that, as I only have BG1, I've not got Tutu, EasyTutu or Big World Project and didn't read up on them either.

What else can I try to fix the lag? My last option is to uninstall the Widescreen mod, and whilst I'd rather not have it looking that ugly, I'd pick that over the lag. I see plenty of people are playing it perfectly using the Widescreen mod, so I'd love to know what I can do to get mine running.

Thank you very much

Chris

Edited by Krayzee, 06 January 2012 - 10:05 AM.

[Jarno Mikkola]

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Open up the baldur.ini file with Notepad and copy paste the text content to a post here in this topic.

[Krayzee]

Thanks Jarno. The baldur.ini is:

[Alias]
HD0:=C:\Baldurs Gate\
CD1:=C:\Baldurs Gate\data\
CD2:=C:\Baldurs Gate\data\
CD3:=C:\Baldurs Gate\data\
CD4:=C:\Baldurs Gate\data\
CD5:=C:\Baldurs Gate\data\
CD6:=C:\Baldurs Gate\data\
[Program Options]
SoftSrcKeyBltFast=0
SoftBltFast=0
SoftSrcKeyBlt=0
SoftBlt=0
SoftMirrorBlt=0
Translucent Shadows=1
Maximum Frame Rate=30
Path Search Nodes=4000
Tooltips=45
Sprite Mirror=0
Gamma Correction=0
Brightness Correction=0
Volume Movie=80
Volume Music=30
Volume Voices=100
Volume Ambients=0
Volume SFX=80
Strref On=0
Full Screen=1
Screen Position X=248
Screen Position Y=85
[GameSpy]
Region=0
[Program Options]
Volume Music=40
[Game Options]
Memory Access=500
Footsteps=1
Weather=1
Memory Level=1
Mouse Scroll Speed=12
GUI Feedback Level=5
Locator Feedback Level=3
Bored Timeout=3000
Always Dither=1
Subtitles=1
Keyboard Scroll Speed=36
Command Sounds Frequency=2
Selection Sounds Frequency=3
Effect Text Level=62
Infravision=0
Tutorial State=1
Attack Sounds=1
Auto Pause State=0
Difficulty Level=3
Quick Item Mapping=1
Environmental Audio=0
[Config]
CacheSize=1024
DisplayConfigMsg=0
[Movies]
BG4LOGO=1
TSRLOGO=1
BILOGO=1
INFELOGO=1
INTRO=1
[MissionPack]
HardDrive=1

[Jarno Mikkola]

Well, the only unusual thing about that file is this:

Memory Access=500

But from my tests, it doesn't affect the game at all.
And this:

[Alias]
HD0:=C:\Baldurs Gate\
CD1:=C:\Baldurs Gate\data\
CD2:=C:\Baldurs Gate\data\
CD3:=C:\Baldurs Gate\data\
CD4:=C:\Baldurs Gate\data\
CD5:=C:\Baldurs Gate\data\
CD6:=C:\Baldurs Gate\data\

As with a full installed game, the CD's still point towards my H drive that was the CD drive in the ancient times... In BGII it's different.

I also have to say that the game does seem partially sluggish in big monitor when comparing to BGII... there's also a slit difference because the characters have different walking speeds between the two games, as apparently it's animation based.
Hmm, try this and see if it helps...

[Krayzee]

Thanks again Jarno - what else can I put next to the Memory Access line so I can try it? You never know... I'll have a go with the MACT shortly, though I see it's from an nvidia-related thread and I have an ATI Radeon HD 5850. Presumably that doesn't matter when using the MACT, it's more about the application.

[Krayzee]

Installed the MACT using the guide and it worked first time, perfect, thank you very much Jarno, very excited about my weekend

Chris