Baldur's Gate II

What works

Installation (do not minimise or it won't come back), patching, bg configuration tool, launcher

No-CD crack not required

in game videos, menu, character creation, in game scenes, fullscreen, battle, conversations, saving/loading, sound, music, resting, inventory

In 1/2 hour of play nothing bad was noticed

 

What does not

Odd text on launcher but usable

Only works in 16 bit colour depth.  Setting to 32 bit results in black screen

 

Workarounds

What was not tested

Multiplayer, all spells, long gameplay. 3D Mode.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

System: Core2Duo e4500, 4GB RAM, Nvidia 8800 GTS 320 I have set all 3 BLT options on.

Mentioned in a comment by zsolty_szasz:

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.

In case of any problems be sure to see the instructions on http://wiki.winehq.org/Infinity_Engine_Games

2015-01-31 Admin note: the following was extracted from a user comment made in 2008 and may not be relevant to current Wine.

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cd into the BG-install directory then cd there into temp/

now

"ln -s default.tot default.tot"

which creates a cirular symlink from default.tot to default.tot