PLEASE HELP!!

[Gimmick]

hmm... Your computer is more robust than mine, and I do not have that problem, and I have all the eye candy and sounds cranked up.

Here are a few guesses at to what might help or be the problem:

1) You may have too many resource hogs in your system tray. By your clock in Windows, there are icons that represent constantly running programs. Try closing a few of them if you have a lot.
2) Download and run the BG2 patch if you haven't already.
3) If your directx version isn't current, upgrade it
4) If you've installed Microsoft Office, remove fastfind from your startup (and reboot)
5) In your control panel, choose system, then device manager. See if any of your hardware has conflicts (hardware with conflicts will have a yellow explanation point on their icon).
6) Reinstall BG2 & go with full install if you can.

[Gimmick]

Ohh, one other thing...

In the configuration options for BG2, increasing the cache size makes things go a little more quickly as it will have to read the CD less.