Killing the Hamadryad in Cloakwood results in a crash to desktop. After 3 attempts I made my group invisible and just passed without killing it.
Drasus Boots of Speed replaced by Worn out boots in Cloakwood. I think I'm going to create the boots with the console because I feel cheated.
Both these issues seem to have happened to others.
Spell effects of clouds caused extreme slowdown (on a core i7 machine..) but enabling hardware acceleration for spells in BGConfig seemed to fix it.
Other than that, I have had about one random crash to desktop every 4 or 5 hours of play. It never happened at a critical moment so far, and seems totally random. I'd say the game is stable enough though.
I did most sidequests, including Durlag's tower, before going into Nashkel mines. With level 7-8 characters, the game is pretty easy now. SharTeel with enhanced berserker sword and 3 attacks per round is killing everything. The Demon Knight fight at the end of Durlag lasted about 10 seconds (I didnt break the mirror).
Is it possible to skip BG1 main quest and go straight to BG2 areas?