Baldur's Gate II

What works

installs and runs great

played all the way through bg1 and totsc and about half of shadows of amn

Note:

I almost gave up on this as the mouse cursor stuttered horribly and every mouse move was extremely slow.

A post for ubuntu karmic on the shadows of amn database suggested

using winetricks ddr=opengl, then enabling 3d acceleration in bgconfig.

Game was perfect after that except load times were slow.

A comment on this page suggested a mod called 'generalized_biffing'. This greatly improved load time.

Thanks to all that posted I am very pleased.

What does not

installer stumble on discs

Workarounds

dump all discs in a folder and install from there

What was not tested

multiplayer

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU: Nvidia
• Driver: proprietary

Additional Comments

GeForce GT 710B graphics card

Multiplayer can work, but requires some setup first.

The problem is with the current DirectPlay implementation. Read here how to set it up: http://wiki.winehq.org/DirectPlayGames

To get multiplayer working for games that use a DirectPlay version prior to 8, place the following DLLs:
dplayx.dll, dpnet.dll, dpnhpast.dll and dpwsockx.dll in this archive in WINE's windows/system32 directory, then add DLL overrides (native,builtin) with WINECFG.