Bought it here on gog. I run win 7 64 bit. General specs: amd phenom II 965, Amd 6870, corsair vengeance 8 gig ( if its of any concern).

When i try to run the game, it shows the IWD2 icon at the bottom of the screen and the cursor starts to do the " load animation". After a few seconds, the cursor stops to "rotate", the icon is still there but nothing happens. Theres just this " invisible" square in the middle of the screen where my cursor disappears whenever i hover into it. No game sounds are heard and no other signs of "life" either for that matter.

Tried to run in xp s3 mode, uncheck the admin/scaling boxes among other solutions that i can't seem to recall atm.

Anyone else who ran into this specific error when trying to run the game?

1. Where is it installed to?
2. Do you have antivirus active?
3. Do you have any mods installed?
4. Have you ran Config.exe inside the installation folder?

1. my gog folder on the non-os disk.
2. tried deactivating avg free.
3. just the vanilla.exe from gog.
4. what should i change inside of it?

For the sake of testing put in the same as in this image. If that doesn't help, you could try windowed mode (in the third tab), just to see if it's full screen that's the issue. Be sure to press 'Ok' to populate your ini file.

thank you for your efforts to help me, but it the suggestions didnt work out for me.

might add if it wasnt clear, that i get no visual signs of the game even starting. no loading screen, no title screen no nothing. just an invisible box where my mouse disappears when i move the cursor into it.

Would you copy/paste the entire contents of your icewind2.ini here, please?

; Icewind Dale II - Configuration File
; Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Interplay Entertainment Corp.
;

; Alias
; HD0 should point to the directory in which the game was installed
[Alias]
HD0:=d:\GOG Games\Icewind Dale II
CD1:=d:\GOG Games\Icewind Dale II\data\
CD2:=d:\GOG Games\Icewind Dale II\cd2\

[Program Options]
SoftSrcKeyBltFast=0
SoftBltFast=0
SoftSrcKeyBlt=0
SoftBlt=0
SoftMirrorBlt=0
Tooltips=30
Volume Movie=85
Full Screen=1
Screen Position X=22063544
Screen Position Y=10646253
Font Name=
Double Byte Character Support=0
3D Acceleration=0
16Bit Textures=1
Display Frequency=60
Resolution=800
Maximum Frame Rate=30
Path Search Nodes=400000
Translucent Shadows=1
Sprite Mirror=0
Gamma Correction=2
Brightness Correction=0
Backwards Compatible 3d=0
Volume Music=100
Volume Voices=100
Volume Ambients=100
Volume SFX=100
Display Movie Subtitles=1
Strref On=0
First Run=0
NT Smooth Sound=0
BitsPerPixel=32
GLSetup Driver=-1

[Game Options]
Mouse Scroll Speed=36
Keyboard Scroll Speed=36
Show Character HP=1
Maximum HP=1
Heal Party on Rest=1
GUI Feedback Level=4
Difficulty Level=3
Critical Hit Screen Shake=1
Show Quest XP=1
Duplicate Floating Text=1
Cheats=0
Darkvision=1
Environmental Audio=0
Attack Sounds=1
Footsteps=1
Always Dither=1
Weather=1
Static Animations=1
Translucent Blts=1
Tiles Precache Percent=100
Grant 2000=1
Chucknomitron=1
Nightmare Mode=0
All Screen Shake=1

[Movies]
BISLOGO=1
INFELOGO=1
WOTC=1
INTRO=1

[Multiplayer]

[Config]
General=1
Graphics=1
Audio=1
Lock=1
CacheSize=768
[GameSpy]
Enabled=0
Location=ZZ

Please alter your ini file exactly as follows (case sensitive -- please be diligent in this). If entries do not exist, add them, if they differ, change them, then save and re-try. NB: These are *alterations*, so your ini file will be much larger than this; this is *not* the complete ini file!

[Alias]
HD0:=D:\GOG Games\Icewind Dale II\
CD1:=D:\GOG Games\Icewind Dale II\DATA\
CD2:=D:\GOG Games\Icewind Dale II\CD2\

[Program Options]
Screen Position X=400
Screen Position Y=100
Display Movie Subtitles=0
Shaded Selection Box=0

[Game Options]
Locator Feedback Level=3
Bored Timeout=15000
Subtitles=0
Command Sounds Frequency=2
Selection Sounds Frequency=3
Effect Text Level=62
Tutorial State=1
Auto Pause State=529
Auto Pause Center=1
Quick Item Mapping=1
Terrain Hugging=0
Pause On Trap=1
Hotkeys On Tooltips=1
Suppress Extra Difficulty Damage=0
Hit Point Bar Sequence=0
Current Loading Hint=24

[Multiplayer]
Last Protocol Used=2
Player Name=Samlage
Session Password=
Session Name=My Game

Sadly, it remains the same..

Hmm, then I am stumped. Hopefully somebody else can offer something that I have overlooked.

Nevermind. Read in the support section of GoG and found out that you just had to force directdraw in an included (but hidden) file in the game folder. Thread solved.

Hm, the old bugbear of DDrawFix. I never gave that a thought... stupid me. :(

for us dummies what is force directdraw what folder and where? what is the name of folder? or a link to the forum you read about it on would be helpful. :) maybe a quick run down on how you when about doing so?