Clicking the "Baldur's Gate" button in the opening screen brings up the character generation screen, not the "Single Player..." etc. screen, and then freezes.

It runs on my Windows 7 machine, but freezes on my Win 10 machine. I tried setting it to Win 7 and Win XP compatibility, but neither works.

Can anyone else confirm?

Odd. I've run bot BG 1 and BG 2 (original and enhanced) in Windows 10 without a problem. If you're using Galaxy, you could try a Verify/Repair game. Otherwise, maybe try an uninstall/reinstall and see if that helps.

Flynn

Hi Flynn,

Thanks for responding.

Oddest thing is that I can run IWD Enhanced with no problem.

Tried uninstalling, downloading, re-installing for the 2nd or 3rd time. It now works....somewhat. I now suspect my problem may have to do with the video card (NVidia GeForce 8800 GTX) and/or monitor.(widescreen Samsung)

While fiddling about, I noticed that if I clicked below the buttons, the opening scene would play and the appropriate "New Game" screen appear.

I set the compatibility mode to:
a) reduced color mode 16-bit color
b) run in 640x480 resolution

And the program ran properly (with the cursor clicking where it was supposed to) . However, the text was illegible and the images somewhat skewed. So, it's not a real solution.

Going to have to think on this...gawd, and here I thought my debugging days were over when I retired... :(

You shouldn't need to run it in Compatibility mode, but what you need to do (it sounds like) is set your desktop display in nVidia control panel to 'Perform scaling on GPU', 'Override scaling set by other programs' and 'Aspect Ratio'.

Thanks for the info, but it turned out to be unnecessary.

I had a new NVidia update today, and I set the game's compatibility mode to "disable display scaling on high DPI settings" (which I presume is what your advice would have done).

And, that worked! :D

Again, thanks...now I can play it all over again on a new OS...toys, I love it. :D