Has anybody used BG II with win XP successfully? Is it possible? Cant imagine why they overlooked the most common operating system in the world!

Actualy, at the time BG2 came out, winXP was still in beta. Still it works flawlessly in XP [b]if you have the patch[/]. If you don't have the patch, no characters will talk with you. Funny bug, but there you go.

<font color=skyblue>Actually, I ran BG2+ ToB with out the Official ToB patch the the ToB Fix until just a few days ago. I'd occasionally get the 'Character X appears busy' bug, but that doesn't mean that no characters would talk to me. In fact, almost every character would talk to me.</font>

I run XP, but ever since I got the patch, I have no problem with talking, but my game crashes after about 20 - 60 minutes of play. I can just restart it, but it is annoying. I goes into "flicker mode" (flickering screen) right before you crash it, and it is only a matter of time after that you will be looking at an assertion error. When it is flickering, it will let you quicksave (if it doesn't happen during a fight), but a regular save crashes the game. Very odd bug. I have the same problem with Planescape: Torment, except that one doesn't go into "flicker mode"; it just dies.

The BioWare tech support forum has a number of XP crash/can't install solutions. http://forums.bioware.com/viewforum.html?forum=10

It could, of course, be a conflict between your computer and the graphics card. I've got the same problem.

I've ran BG2 on XP every time I've played it -- on 2 different laptops now. The only problem I ever had was Norton recognizing the BG exe file link as a bad registry item and deleting it. Until the patch fixed that, I had to weed out that registry edit from Norton's "to fix" list.

I've never experienced the "appears busy" problem.

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