Graphical Glitches...

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So ever since I reformatted and also gutted and basically made a whole new computer, (actually... I never really reformatted, I just bought a new hard drive and still have windows and everything still on the old harddrive which is now a slave... along with ANOTHER one...) and now whenever I install the game I keep having black boxes around/behind many objects in the game, and the fog of war is blocky and totally black. Changing the video and computer settings does very little... I was at one point able to get the fog of war to stop blocking, and some items too, but even then items (like loot lying on the ground) not in the center of my screen still had blocks, and large game objects still had them entirely, and all -? the little info popups for various things all had giant black boxes under the text.

Here's some screenshots to show.
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using a geforce 8800 GTS, I run my monitor at 1440x900, though I run the game in 800x600 (which as always worked before...), running XP pro... have 3 gigs or so of ram, dual core intel... ceative X-Fi...

it doesn't matter how I install it... how I patch or don't patch it... the daggon sqaures are still there!!!

but then, it's been a while since that last time I tried so maybe I'll try again...

I also have alot of Override files for voices and portraits... but only the stuff from BG2, no player made ones or anything. I don't mod the game at all except to use Shadowkeeper. I am trying to play HoF mode.

 

Yeah, I messed with the various graphical settings, from the main 3 bars to the individual boxes, and the best I was able to do was (as shown in the second screeny) to make the fog of war stop blocking.

Maybe I'll try installing it on an inferior machine or 2...

failing that, and assuming the old nvidia drivers did the trick, is there a way to cleanly, smoothly switch from one driver set to another often and quickly? lol... or perhaps I could create a windows user profile that uses the old driver? Or are drivers universal? sigh... compatibility is irritating.

 

Try turning the HW-acceleration in the display settings (I think it's under "Troubleshooting") to the third slider setting or something like that.

This should fix the problems with GF 8XXX cards.

 

I think you're thinking of the Baldur's Gate 2 config

 

hi shivan,

I encountered exactly the same problem when I started playing these days (my first try in IWD2 ).
I played around at the ingame graphical settings and this worked for me:
reduce graphics to 16 bit and activate "software standard blt" (the feature that is recommended to use when graphical anomalies appear).
after that, these annoying black boxes were gone.

hope that helps!

cheers,
sco