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Leafy · 03-21-2002, 01:07 PM

Hi all, it's been a few months since my last post. Managed to tear myself away from IWD for a while.
Question: Are there any known issues with IWD/HOW/TotLM running on a Win 2000 platform? I had heard of some Black Isle games (like BG) having trouble running in Win 2000. Any Insights?

Also, I had to reinstall IWD recently. IWD ran fine, but after installing HOW and TotLM, i noticed a nasty problem with crashing. I run Multiplayer sessions alone (yeah, playing with myself) and found crashes during caracter creation when selecting voices. Also had a few crashes/freezes during the beginning of the game; but i determined those to be due to the imported characters i had created in the basic, non-patched IWD.
I'm running Win 98, 1st edition. 550 AMD, ~390MB Ram, 4mb video. Incidently, i have always noticed a less than desireable performance with the spells (lags) and have noticed such lags in other apps (grossly unacceptable in some cases). It's been suggested that i need to upgrade a Codec or something. I'm pretty certain it's a software issue, not hardware- thus my interest in Win 2000. Any insights would be appreciated.

03-21-2002, 01:07 PM	#1
Leafy Zhentarim Guard Join Date: March 5, 2001 Location: The leafy, green forests of Wisconsin Posts: 315	Hi all, it's been a few months since my last post. Managed to tear myself away from IWD for a while. Question: Are there any known issues with IWD/HOW/TotLM running on a Win 2000 platform? I had heard of some Black Isle games (like BG) having trouble running in Win 2000. Any Insights? Also, I had to reinstall IWD recently. IWD ran fine, but after installing HOW and TotLM, i noticed a nasty problem with crashing. I run Multiplayer sessions alone (yeah, playing with myself) and found crashes during caracter creation when selecting voices. Also had a few crashes/freezes during the beginning of the game; but i determined those to be due to the imported characters i had created in the basic, non-patched IWD. I'm running Win 98, 1st edition. 550 AMD, ~390MB Ram, 4mb video. Incidently, i have always noticed a less than desireable performance with the spells (lags) and have noticed such lags in other apps (grossly unacceptable in some cases). It's been suggested that i need to upgrade a Codec or something. I'm pretty certain it's a software issue, not hardware- thus my interest in Win 2000. Any insights would be appreciated.