Hi!

I've taken up BG2 again after a a few years, but have encountered a problem: when I've loaded a save, the game will often (maybe 80-90 % of the time) immediately freeze, and I get a "program not responding" error, and I have to force the program to turn off. It seems to happen randomly; the same save may freeze a few times and then work and the other way around.

I installed it many years ago according to the "STICKY: Baldur's Gate 2 essential mods" thread on this forum, and have since upgraded much of the computer's hardware as well and updated to Win 11. I've looked a bit in the forum and tried removing .bmp files in the saves and clearing the cache folder, which did not help.

Any suggestions for solutions other than re-installing everything?

Hi!

I am currently experiencing the same issue - even with my original CD versions. I've tried various wrappers, compatibility modes and such - to no avail. Symptoms are the same as yours - game immediately hangs when loading a save - or - if it somehow gets past that point - it will freeze on the nearest activity - such as looting or casting fireball.

On Windows 10 it worked flawlessly - problems started upon upgrading to Windows 11 - the same as in your case. Maybe that's the culprit? Either way, currently I'm out of ideas;/

I've managed to run the game a bit, and discovered some details:

*Quicksaving or loading a quicksave will almost always cause a freeze, while normal saving always works and loading normal saves usually works but eventually leads to a freeze.
*Once it has frozen, the chance of new freezes when restarting the game seems to increase a lot. Restarting the computer seems to reset this.
*I almost never get freezes from other causes.

Interesting. Looks like the game is having some weird issues with memory management or something like that. I've asked my buddy to check if he is having the same problems on Win 11 - and he sure did have the same freezes.

I've also discovered that other games running Infinity Engine are having issues as well. Icewind Dale freezes after loading a save too. Icewind Dale 2 runs without problems as long as you stay on one map - whenever you venture into other place, the game will crash.

But curiously, original Baldur's Gate runs without any problems. Which means that only games using later versions of Infinity Engine are affected.