Baldur's Gate

I have a bug that renders black squares around cursor, characters, etc. Is there any way to fix that?

I'm using Wine 1.3.19 and ATI Card with Catalyst drivers.

Try with 1.3.21.
Although this is probably due to poor video drivers quality; try to upgrade your drivers or use a nVidia card if you have a spare.

It's a notebook, so upgrading my card is not an option.

However I've managed to fix this by changing DirectDrawRendering to 'gdi'.

I have nVidia, but whenever I had problems with graphics for BG, disabling AA worked. But again, you have Ati so this can do nothing for you.

Somehow, the game crashes at the beginning of the battle. And if I make save in front of the place where it happened and try to come to the same enemy, from the same place, the game will crash again. But if I try to come to the enemy from other side, then the game works good. On average, the game crashes in the early 30% of battles.

Which version so I can test?

I've got this happening in 1.38, but only at the office, where my box is NFS-mounting both root and my drive with Baldur's Gate on it (GoG version).

It's the same problem, as soon as an enemy appears for a battle to start, the game crashes.

At home I'm running the same wine (I'm pretty sure), same settings, and it never crashes.

Sorrt, need an edit button!

One other difference: on my box at home, I run as a non-root user, but need to do this prior to running the game:

chmod 666 /dev/nvidia*

At work I run it as root.

How did you play the game on a separate X session? I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 64bit.

There's a bug issued for the opengl small screen bug. Please guys, vote for it: bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22511

There is an error dialog box that complains about the game exiting abnormally when I first try to start up BG1, and then it will not run. In the console, I am getting

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on display ":0.0".
err:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo couldn't initialize OpenGL, expect problems
err:d3d_caps:WineD3D_CreateFakeGLContext Can't find a suitable iPixelFormat.
err:d3d:InitAdapters Failed to get a gl context for default adapter

Well it looks like you do not have openGL enabled for your X. Look into the /var/log/Xorg.0.log for warnings and errors (i.e. grep for "WW" and "EE"). Also (but it does not have to be related) you should check for direct rendering dupport (glxinfo|grep -i "direct rendering").

Thanks for the response. I just changed the proprietary driver for my on-board Nvidia card to a different version and this issue with the missing openGL has gone away for the time being.

I would still like to understand the original problem though, if possible. Direct rendering support says it is OK (i.e. the grep returns "direct rendering: yes"). Checking the Xorg log gave no errors but a few warnings...

(WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support
(WW) NVIDIA(0): The EDID for IBM (DFP-0) contradicts itself: mode "1680x1050"
(WW) NVIDIA(0): is specified in the EDID; however, the EDID's valid
(WW) NVIDIA(0): HorizSync range (53.246-63.877 kHz) would exclude this
(WW) NVIDIA(0): mode's HorizSync (42.6 kHz); ignoring HorizSync check for
(WW) NVIDIA(0): mode "1680x1050".
(WW) NVIDIA(0): The EDID for IBM (DFP-0) contradicts itself: mode "1680x1050"
(WW) NVIDIA(0): is specified in the EDID; however, the EDID's valid
(WW) NVIDIA(0): VertRefresh range (50.000-60.000 Hz) would exclude this
(WW) NVIDIA(0): mode's VertRefresh (40.0 Hz); ignoring VertRefresh check
(WW) NVIDIA(0): for mode "1680x1050".

I installed the game without any problems, but everytime i try to start the game via the IE-Games-instructions i get:
"fixme wave wodplayer_reset shouldn't have headers left"
nothing more happens, and the console shows the normal prompt.

things have changed after a reboot. now it's the "you don't have a cd-drive"-error again. seems to be a big disadvantage of this netbook -.-
can anyone help me?

I'm having similar problems. The launcher loads, with music, but when I click Play it exits to the command prompt without any messages. Clicking Configure does correctly load the configuration utility, however. I installed from the 3-CD "Original Saga" set.

Make sure it's fully patched. I was running the older releases (6 discs total), and I was able to get past that message after installing the two patches from Bioware's website. Now, however, I'm being told to insert a CD even though I've mounted them according to the IE Games guide.

does wine ask you for a cd, or does BG comply that you don't have a cd-drive? for the latter, you have to make sure the mountpoint is defined as a cd-drive in wine.

hope, the originator gets an e-mail...
is this still a problem or can this thread be deleted?

How do you tell Wine the mount point is a CD-drive? I know you can go to the Drives tab in winecfg but I'm not sure what to do from there. I tried setting D:/ to the mount point and set it as a CD drive... but the game still complains that I have no CD drive.

I then used the recommended set-up in the Infinity Engine Games tutorial...I think the idea is to mount all 3 game CDs in different places. But how do I tell Wine that I now have 3 CD drives?

I'm Sorry, but I cant Test this by my own (seems that i lost the CDs).

The thing is the testers write Multiplayer isn't working, but noone opens/links a bug for this Problem.