Baldur's Gate 1 and Expansion Crash Problem Solved!!!!

[mjkovis]

I have been seaching and searching for my answers to the problems that I was having with Baldur's Gate and its expansion crashing on me. I looked through many archived messages in a few different forums and found that Baldur's Gate 1 and the expansion can not work with Windows XP.

I did notice that some people said that it worked fine with Windows XP, but one of Bioware's tech's posted reply's to many messages saying that "Windows XP is not a supported operating system." So there we all have it. Kinda sucks...

Thanks

[Nuclear Krusader]

It's really bad that you are (like most of us) left alone in the cold. But I'd still try tho, if you have the time and the patience, since I know of ppl who are running the game in XP.

[mjkovis]

Well the weird this is, that I reinstalled my computer and Baldur's Gate worked fine. The next day, without changing a thing, the game suddenly started to crash again... So I dont know. Right now I am going to reinstall again and see what the deal is.

[mikeheitz]

Interesting... I still have the CD's from that game laying around somewhere... I'll try installing tonight if I have the time and see what my result is.

[Cirerrek]

Hey Acid-Klutch,

I've got BG1 + TOTSC installed on one of my PCs and it runs fine under WinXP PRO.

I do recall seeing somewhere that if you run have to run BG 1 from a folder or it will crash, meaning:

G:\Program Files\Black Isle\Baldur's Gate - No Crash

G:\Baldur's Gate - Crash

Of course I didn't see that particular bit of advice until I had already re-installed it and so I loaded it as per the second option and like I said, it runs fine.

[mjkovis]

Ok. I will try that now. I think I just about have everything set on my new install. We'll see what happens. I was running it from c:\my games\baldur's gate I
So lemme see what happens. I have seen many different ideas of why it crashes. Compatability, patches, upgrades, and whatever else. Thanks again!