Posted April 04, 2014
I am traveling with a 2-year old netbook (Samsung N150+) that has Intel integrated graphics and I've been trying in vain to get BG2 to work since yesterday.
Unfortunately I am running into what is apparently a bit of a known issue with this game.
With the 3d acceleration turned on, all of the game's text is unreadable. It is either gone completely, or rendered unreadable by artifacts that cover it as the mouse moves in the text's general vicinity.
The usual fix to that is to disable 3d acceleration. And sure enough, that fixes the text issue completely!
But with 3d acceleration turned off, but game performance is somewhere around 2 FPS. Completely unplayable. The usual fix for this performance issue is to turn the 3d acceleration on.
*sigh*.
I purchased this game specifically for the netbook while traveling.
The tech details:
- Running windows 8 32-bit edition
- 2 gigs of ram
- 1.66 Ghz Intel Atom N450 processor
- Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150 running driver version 8.15.10.2697 (newer than what's on Intel's website - it is what is offered from the netbook's manufacturer, funny because it's normally the other way around).
- Installed the game outside of the program files folder (I put it in C:/GoG Games/Baldur's Gate 2)
- Not running any mods
- Have done several re-installs of both the game, and display adapter drivers
- Tried all permutations of comatibility settings I could think of
- Ran the configuration utility and tried every combo of graphics setting I could think of
- Edited baldur.ini and fiddled about with several settings there, including enabling 16-bit textures, disabling vertex padding, setting "backwards compatible 3d" on, turning on "low end machine" and "low end machine 2", turning on "faster blur", turning off "always dither", and changing "bitsperpixel" to 16. None of this helped.
- Tried the widescreen mod. It worked as promised but did not affect the game's performance or lack thereof.
I've only seen one or two other people on the web with this particular problem... and no solution was ever posted. Finding a solution is made even harder by the fact that most people are talking about the enhanced edition, which doesn't apply here.
Unfortunately I am running into what is apparently a bit of a known issue with this game.
With the 3d acceleration turned on, all of the game's text is unreadable. It is either gone completely, or rendered unreadable by artifacts that cover it as the mouse moves in the text's general vicinity.
The usual fix to that is to disable 3d acceleration. And sure enough, that fixes the text issue completely!
But with 3d acceleration turned off, but game performance is somewhere around 2 FPS. Completely unplayable. The usual fix for this performance issue is to turn the 3d acceleration on.
*sigh*.
I purchased this game specifically for the netbook while traveling.
The tech details:
- Running windows 8 32-bit edition
- 2 gigs of ram
- 1.66 Ghz Intel Atom N450 processor
- Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 3150 running driver version 8.15.10.2697 (newer than what's on Intel's website - it is what is offered from the netbook's manufacturer, funny because it's normally the other way around).
- Installed the game outside of the program files folder (I put it in C:/GoG Games/Baldur's Gate 2)
- Not running any mods
- Have done several re-installs of both the game, and display adapter drivers
- Tried all permutations of comatibility settings I could think of
- Ran the configuration utility and tried every combo of graphics setting I could think of
- Edited baldur.ini and fiddled about with several settings there, including enabling 16-bit textures, disabling vertex padding, setting "backwards compatible 3d" on, turning on "low end machine" and "low end machine 2", turning on "faster blur", turning off "always dither", and changing "bitsperpixel" to 16. None of this helped.
- Tried the widescreen mod. It worked as promised but did not affect the game's performance or lack thereof.
I've only seen one or two other people on the web with this particular problem... and no solution was ever posted. Finding a solution is made even harder by the fact that most people are talking about the enhanced edition, which doesn't apply here.
Post edited April 04, 2014 by carpetfilter