Does ToB work with Vista 64?

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I'm thinking of getting a new computer, as the one I have is very slow and horrible.

I did a search and saw that some people have successfully used BG games on Vista, but what about 64 bit Vista?

Does anyone know whther it works on 64-bit vista???

 

To my experience it works just fine on vista 64 (although you might want to run it in XP compatibility mode). I have, however, read some reports from people who had difficulties getting it to run (at least smooth), so you might run into some problems depending on your hardware setup or whatnot.

Actually I haven't had problems with any of the Infinity Engine games on my vista 64 rig. Only issues I have had were graphics card related (and all these could be resolved through tweaking baldur.ini - if your new rig uses a newer Geforce card I'll be happy to help you fix any problems you may encounter).

 

Agreed - I have run BG2 and modded BG2 on a quad core/Vista x64 with a GX2 videocard. When you get your rig, though, take olimikrig up on the offer - it took some graphics tweaking to get rid of graphical oddities like balck boxes, screen flicker, and such. I had to download nHancer and play with the SLI and such, keeping to the 1024x768 setting (the bigg has some posts on various forums, too - and a mod to allow widescreen).

 

Yeah if you run SLI you definitely need to disable that in the games nvidia profile (or nhancer if you use that - which I would); furthermore all AA and the likes should be set to application controlled or completely disabled.

I actually got ToB to run fine in 1280x1024, cmorgan. Took a while and a couple of smashed keyboards to get it to work though .

 

You rock, man - and if you wouldn't mind sharing a profile, those keyboards will have given their lives up for the Greater Good, earning a place in Tech Heaven! i couldn't get higher resolutions stable.

 

Sure: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=COL61QF2

This is what my baldur.ini looks like (keep in mind though that I'm not sure if all the things I enabled was really needed, I just enabled stuff, loaded BG2 to see if it worked, rinse and repeat until I didn't get black boxes on chunky deaths, fire, etc. anymore. To be honest I didn't have the slightest clue what I as doing ):

Code:

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Maximum Frame Rate=30
Path Search Nodes=400000
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Force 50 Percent Transparent=0
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Display Subtitles=1
Full Screen=0
SoftMirrorBlt=1
SoftBlt=1
SoftSrcKeyBlt=1
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Volume Movie=100
Volume Music=100
Volume Voices=100
Volume Ambients=100
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Strref On=0
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CD2:=D:\Spil\BGII\CD2\;D:\Spil\BGII\CD2\
CD3:=D:\Spil\BGII\CD3\
CD4:=D:\Spil\BGII\CD4\
CD5:=D:\Spil\BGII\CD5\
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Critical Hit Screen Shake=1
Low End Machine=0
Low End Machine 2=0
Footsteps=1
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Extra Feedback=0
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Disable VEFVidCells=0
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Tiles Precache Percent=100
All Learn Spell Info=1
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Automated Foot Steps=70
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Automated Faster Blur=60
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Disable Footsteps During Combat=0
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Disable VVC Sounds=0
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One Time Popup=1
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Current Loading Hint=19
Mouse Scroll Speed=36
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Locator Feedback Level=3
Bored Timeout=3000
Always Dither=1
Subtitles=0
Keyboard Scroll Speed=36
Command Sounds Frequency=2
Selection Sounds Frequency=3
Effect Text Level=62
Infravision=0
Weather=1
Tutorial State=1
Auto Pause State=0
Auto Pause Center=1
Quick Item Mapping=1
Environmental Audio=1
Heal Party on Rest=0
Terrain Hugging=0
HP Over Head=0
Hotkeys On Tooltips=1
Area Effects Density=100
Filter Games=1
[Local]
Language=English
Language25=English
Zip=
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[Uninstall]
Uninst_dir=C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield Installation Information\{8DAE4336-2B71-11D4-9A6C-006067325E47}
Uninst_dir_25=C:\Program Files (x86)\InstallShield Installation Information\{B8C3B479-1716-11D5-968A-0050BA84F5F7}
[GameSpy]
Enabled=1
Location=
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General=1
Graphics=1
Sound=1
CacheSize=1000
ConfigWidth=800
ConfigHeight=506
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BISLOGO=1
BWDRAGON=1
WOTC=1
INTRO15F=1
RESTDUNG=1
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A quick way to test if it works is just to make a game and teleport to the end of Irenicus' dungeon as the fight scene when you leave will pretty quickly show whether issues remain.