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Can not get Baldur's Gate to work on Vista

Oct 9, 2007 12:45AM PDT

I recently purchased a laptop pre-packaged with Vista Home(120 gigs HD, 1 gig RAM, no video card--virtual, AMD 64 dual core something or other (turion?) 3.2 ghz), thinking that I could install my favorite older games and have something to occupy my time while I travel. Well, for the most part, it works superbly. I've successfully installed a few older titles, such as Fallout and Neverwinter Nights, but I can not get BG1 to work.

I can install it successfully, and it starts up fine (all of the videos work, the sound, everything). I can create a new character, but as soon as I click 'done' and the first level loads, the game crashes. I've tried reinstalling, updating drivers (although I fail to see how my old drivers would have been able to work with this title), and compatibility mode, for all previous windows versions. Any help to be offered would be greatly appreciated, especially since this is the last game I own that I haven't beaten.

The last thing I can think of is using a dual-core processor, but my web searches have turned nothing about BG and dual-core.

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Hint!
Oct 9, 2007 1:34AM PDT

Type

Baldur's Gate Vista

On google.com and use the first hit.

Bob

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Hint?
Oct 9, 2007 5:32PM PDT

Thank you, I looked at the forum, but it seemed to me it was a guy who wanted to access cheat commands on the BG console while using Vista. I'm still concerned with getting the thing to work. Perhaps by some bizarre fluke I came up with different search results.

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2 or 4 CD version appears to matter.
Oct 10, 2007 12:09AM PDT

One does work the other doesn't.

Bob

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3 or 4
Oct 10, 2007 12:47AM PDT

Do you happen to know which one does? I'm using the four-disc version.

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Your research.
Oct 10, 2007 4:28AM PDT

I only point how to find the discussions.

The crash is interesting however. Did you head to the EVENT VIEWER to see why it crashed? Share the info.

Bob

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event viewer
Oct 10, 2007 6:53PM PDT

I'm at work right now, and don't have access to my computer, but if I remember correctly it had a string of gibberish with the end line being something like APPCRASH followed by some file extension.

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The Event Viewer content will
Oct 10, 2007 10:45PM PDT

Usually tell us a clue. Remember I won't duplicate the more common answers most of the time regarding video, audio and such drivers. Most of the time when people post they've done all that.

Also your post lacks detail. It should have at least what the words in red you see each time you start a new post.

Bob