when u import the character from BG 1 and then start a new game then it first loads up straight after it has loaded up press spacebar which pauses the game, from here press H to bring the tool bars up and go in ur bag and all ur items will be there from BG1. Now and u can drop everything to the ground, now press space bar again and the guy comes in and uses magic on u etc then he leaves the Iomen comes, after u fnished talking to her u can pick up all ur stuff again.
If u use ur gear from BG will this cause BG2 to crash in the future of the game.

Thats a known workaround. No real way to fix it, since the game engine is running before the items are removed a fast player will always be able to beat the script.

Most BG1 items should be safe, there may be a few oddities in there that will cause crashes, but most of the common items should be OK.

Thanks for ur reply, what items cause the game to crash, If they did could i just drop them and the game would be okay

BG1 has a couple of thousand items. Which ones did you bring into BG2? And what kind of crash are you experienceing? I cant actualy think of an item that would cause a crash part-way through the game. Corrupted images etc tend to cause instant trouble.

no i havent played throught yet just asking incase i decide to. BUt am not sure what to do, Like i thinks its cheating right, Should i take a pile of gear (all the best stuff ), just a few things like a good bow and sword or nothing at all.

As someone who's never played BG1 or BG2 with an imported character, I can say you won't have any trouble at all making do with what you find in Irenicus's dungeon. Once you make it out, there will be merchants galore with tons of +1 and +2 level weapons/armor, and even a fair smattering of +3 and +4 level equipment.

I've heard that certain BG1 items will actually show up in Irenicus's dungeon in various places if your imported character had them. I'm sure a search on "import" on this forum will turn up more details if someone doesn't reply with more detail in this thread.

Yes, there are some. This is from Dan Simpsons' walkthrough:
<font color ="#3D2F1B">The Claw of Kazgaroth, The Horn of Kazgaroth or Koveras' Ring of Protection - instead of the Helm of the Balduran (which is there no matter if you have had it in BG1)

Golden trousers - you do not want to run naked through Amn, do you?

War Hammer +2: 'Ashideena', Bala's Axe, Halberd +2: 'Suryris' Blade', Dagger +2: Longtooth, Staff Spear +2, Staff Mace +2, Sling +3, Long Sword +2: 'Varscona', BLUN11, The Root of the Problem, Kiel's Morningstar - instead of Two-Handed Sword of Chaos +2</font> (ITEM SPOILERS, select to read)

[ 07-16-2003, 05:20 PM: Message edited by: Vedran ]

I imported a BG1 party that had all of those items, some equipped, some in inventory, and the found item got replaced with you-know-what, but the quest reward didn't get replaced. Maybe the replacement only happens in SoA? (I had ToB installed at the time.)

I'll echo Pirengle--I once imported a Cleric/Mage with a natural 18 CON, so there was no reason for him to NOT wear the Claw in BG1. Upon entering BG2, I noticed that I did get the Claw back, but was pretty ticked when I saw what I <u>wasn't</u> getting in its place. But no matter how many times I imported a character with Greywolf's weapon, I never once got it back in BG2.

(About Greywolf's weapon--should Viconia be allowed to use it? It does say it was used by Sharran priests, after all.....)

...maybe. with third edition rules, it would be possible.

Description says its used by priests in sacrificial rites, not used in combat.

Anyway, the usuability flags are set to prevent clerics using it, so no luck.