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

[nataben1314]

I have (hopefully) solved my issues, and here's what I did. I believe several of these are factors in improving my performance (not just the reformat). I am using an older laptop. These are tested for regular BG2, not IA. Hopefully it will continue working for IA once I install it (waiting for 4.3). #3 is probably only applicable to laptops:

1. Reformatted!

2. When playing, turn off my wireless card, firewall, and virus protection.

3. I noticed that my laptop was getting rather hot, and I think this had something to do with the choppiness. So now when I play BG2 I prop it up on the corners of four books, so that the underside of my laptop has more space between it and the desk. This seems to allow the air intake/fan to operate much better. To this end, also, do a full install of BG2 so that your laptop doesn't have to spin the disk during the game and heat things up.