Baldur's Gate II

What works

Installation, using wisotool http://code.google.com/p/winezeug/source/browse/trunk/wisotool for the cd version of the game. To do it manually, you need to copy all the cd's to a single folder, and run the setup from there. You'll still need the first cd mounted, however.

What does not

Running the game fails for me, see http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22482. A slight workaround is winetricks ddr=opengl, which lets the game start, but has horrible rendering. See http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22493. Using winetricks ddr=opengl, then enabling 3d acceleration in the game's configuration utility, however, looks perfect.

Workarounds

What was not tested

Playing the game for more than a few minutes.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

• GPU:
• Driver:

Additional Comments

Nvidia 9800 GTX / 195.36.15 drivers.

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