Sometime around 2007, nVidia's drivers screwed up transparencies and shadows for Baldur's Gate and other similar titles. Has this been remedied in this version of Baldur's Gate?

Give me another half hour or so and I should be able to say - sadly this is what messed up my BG2 experience some while ago. Here's to hoping the GoG wizards have been at work and fixed it for us :)

The newest NVIDIA beta drivers fix some long-standing bugs with compatibility of older games, so they might fix some issues (Gothic II is now playable, for example). Try them out, they're actually a great set of drivers all things considered.

I played Baldur's Gate II with the expansion with an Nvidia 8800 Ultra and Windows XP in summer 2008 and it worked flawlessy; playing Planescape: Torment on Windows 7 with bootcamp on a 2010 MacBook Pro i also noticed some problems with transparency and shadows.

I still am not sure about what is giving me graphical problems: i thought it was Windows 7, because there was no problem at all on Windows XP + Nvidia.

I'll sure buy BG:Original Saga in the next few days and will make some tries ;)

Nvida fix has fixed it for me!

What exactly doe s the "Nvidia Fix" program do?

It makes BG1 run using a DLL that rewrites the broken DirectX functions. The source code to that DLL is available here if you're paranoid.

So the only question now is, does it work for BG2? (Yes, I know that's technically not this forum.)

Edit: Nevermind, apparently it's not needed for BG2.

This is an additional step beyond what GoG provides?

There's another fix for graphical problems using the Application Compatibility Toolkit from Microsoft which can be found here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=24da89e9-b581-47b0-b45e-492dd6da2971

Sadly I don't have the exact instructions for this workaround anymore, but i remember that by using the toolkit you had to add some "DirectDraw" thing to the Baldur's Gate exe. Maybe if you search for it you find the exact instructions somewhere...

EDIT: FOUND IT! :D

Here's the guide: http://www.shsforums.net/topic/30840-ie-games-and-nvidia-series-8-video-cards/page__st__60__p__432892&#entry432892

I have an Nvidia card, and updated my drivers today. I don't have the "black box" issue anymroe and shadows seem to be showing up fine.

If it matters, I have a GTS 250 and I'm running Windows 7 in 64bit.

What driver version? Just to note. Gave this a try. Seems to work. Thanks =)

Those Nvidia fixes didn't help me but this worked like a charm. I didn't even think there was a way to disable DD acceleration in Win 7 64 (since the option doesn't even show up in dxdiag)!