[Cerek the Barbaric]

I finally got my home PC back from the shop this week after making extensive upgrades to it. One of the items I upgraded was my harddrive (from 40gb to 120gb). An unfortunate result of switching harddrives was that ALL of my games have to be re-installed on the new HD (but they WERE nice enough to make a copy of my SAVED games in my Black Isle folder). So I got home and installed BGII, TOB, and even BGI on my machine. I then got online and downloaded Weimers' Ease-of-Use, Tactics, and Weapons Upgrade Mods. I had been playing BGII on my sons computer and I had made a copy of my SAVED games from that machine too. After getting BGII installed and activating all the Mods, I copied my SAVED games from the other machine into the SAVE folder and resumed playing them.

The game I played first was my Solo Bard. He has cleared Level 1 of Chateau Irenicus for the most part. Improved Ilyich and his crew are history, as well as the cambion demon. I've gone to the Plane of Air and met the genie, recovered his lamp and got my sword back. I've also killed MOST of the Duergars that are randomly spawned, but not all of them. Since my Bard is a thorough fellow, he has decided to go back and kill the few remaining duergar before traveling on. That's where I ran into a couple of bugs.

The largest group of duergar are in the corridors that lead to Rielev's(sp?) Room and (eventually) into the library. I took the hallway to the left (leading towards the top of the screen) and found a duergar mage in the first corridor to the right. During our battle the game CRASHED twice and actually caused the PC to REBOOT! I've had the game CRASH back to the Desktop before, but it has NEVER caused the PC to actually ReBoot. When I finally DID get a chance to fight the mage, the dialogue feedback I got was very strange. Whenever the mage attacked, I got a message in orange text explaining he was an "Alchemy Mage" and that this gave him the ability to create various potions at random. Whenever I actually injured the duergar I got a list of the possible potions he could create in white text. [img]graemlins/wow.gif[/img]

Can anybody tell me what the heck is going on?

One other item of curiousity. When I tried to install BGII on both systems, it would NOT allow me to do a "Full Install" (even though I have PLENTY of room on both systems). Each time, the installation would proceed until it was approximately 61% complete and I got an error regarding some of the movies. The installation aborted. I tried 3 times with my sons machine and twice with my own, but I never could get a Full Install to work. Instead, I had to do the "Recommended" Install. That't OK, except that I have to put the ToB CD in to start the game, then I have to switch to the BGII CD2 when I choose to play Shadows of Amn. So I have to physically plug 2 CD's in to get the game started. I can live with that, but it is a bit annoying.

As always, any advice, suggestions, or tips are greatly appreciated.