suggestions for slower computers Options

[Romulas]

I ran into a very annoying problem the night before last. Started the shadelord battle and was amazed that he fired so many spells right off the bat, don't have the exact number but it was alot.

What this did other than destroying my party was slow my computer down to a crawl. The characters that were not slowed from his slow spell could still hardly move and could not make it from the door before getting killed.

The question, are there specific settings that I can alter that will make this a less computer intensive fight? This is the first enhanced encounter that has done this and might be as bad as it is because the battle scene is in the dark and I think that maps like this are more difficult and computer intensive. Just my opinion.

Romulas

[thetruth]

For better perfomance you could try first the following:

- Defragmentation
- Try to not have a full HD (at least 15% of free space)
- Try to not have many programs running in the background (icons in the Taskbar included)
- Empty the data folder in the cache folder of BG2
- Sometimes using the same installation for different games and installing/uninstalling mods may cause similar problems.
You could try a clean installation.


If the problems insist you could try the following (especially for graphic-intense battles):


Go to the BGConfig (before running the game) --->Gameplay--->Visual
and check the:


a) No large Static Animations
b ) Disable All S.Animations
c) Disable Casting Glows
d) Disable VEF Vid Cells
e) Disable Statics During Combat
f) Translucent Shadows (uncheck)
g) Enable brightening (uncheck)