The Nemesis

It would be good to know which Graphic card you have( ATI, NVidia or integrated + producer + the cards series number ).

I'm using a Nvidia GeForce Go 6150

Thats everything... have you tried this. That is to say... to be edited.

Based on that thread I went into the config options and turned on the 3d acceleration. Seems like that did the trick. we'll see over the longer term if anything else pops up (I know once when I was leaving candlekeep the game crashed right as we went out the gate, but that only happened once and not before or after.)

thanks.

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It's a transparency issue... see the pictures that animate the spells and other moving effects take larger space than just the borders of the effects, the rest of the space is then colored as transparent... but yours is for some reason black... well it's shown as black, as the game's files have a set format where the transparent is one of them in the used pallet.
It would be good to know which Graphic card you have( ATI, NVidia or integrated + producer + the cards serial ). ???

I'm using a Nvidia GeForce Go 6150 (I'm running this on my laptop), no idea about the serial # though. I don't feel comfortable opening this up like I would a desktop.

I don't want to start a new thread for this, but I'm seeing a weird effect where I get black borders and boxes around certain things like spell effects and fountain water.

Like this:


The odd thing is that with something like the fountains, I don't see the black when the area is fogged over, but when my character is in visual range of the fountains, then the water that cascades out the top has a black border around it (it's not big boxes like the above picture's spell effects.

I've tried searching around for info and I see conflicting info about how fixable this is. Some places indicate it's a problem with the video card compatibility and drivers, and some sort of shrug it off like "you can't do anything about this"

Thanks.

I did a very minimal mod installation using BWP. All I put in was BGT, the relevant fixpacks and tweaks, and the UB mods for both games. Everything works it seems (I only spent a couple of minutes messing around in candlekeep in BG1 to check so far. It makes me suspect that the widescreen mod is the culprit behind my issues. The only way to know that for sure though would be to add more mods and see how things go.

Can I run the BiG World installer again to add more mods, or does everything need to go in as a one-shot change (eg do I need to uninstall everything and start from scratch again).

Sorry for all the questions. I've never had such a finicky time with mods and add-ons before in other games.

Have you tried launching from TobExLoader.exe?

I get the DOS prompt bit, then it does the same thing (black screen, 3 seconds of waiting, then back to desktop). I've tried to go from the desktop shortcut that is installed with BGII, directly from baudur.exe (which starts up with an options menu) and from TobExLoader. All end up the same way.

EDIT: Tomorrow I'm going to try a reinstall and skip the widescreen mod. I know when I tried to use it by itself I had problems with both BG1 and BG2, but I chalked it up initially to me doing something wrong in the installation process. If that doesn't work, I'll probably try just BGT by itself with no mods. Slowly work myself along just to see where the particular problem lies.