I did a tactical install of BiG World. I will note that I had a problem on the first attempt, where Sword Coast Stratagems (v30) would not install. it got an error while actually installing. And, with all the dependencies on it, the install rather fell apart. I did an un-install, cleaned up, and started over from scratch, removing Stratagems and all dependencies from the tactical install. That seemed to work. But, when I ran BGMain.exe, it popped up a DOS box with some text and then nothing happened. I did this a few times and thought I might have a driver issue, perhaps. So, since I have an NVidia card, in my laptop, I followed this link:
http://www.shsforums.net/topic/30840-ie-games-and-nvidia-series-8-video-cards/
and checked the settings therein. All looked good so I ran the NVidia_fix.zip which threw errors so not sure that did anything. Then I started to write a post to ask for help here, and when I was well into the post (about this far!) THEN Baulder's Gate actually ran! Thus, I find that launching Baulder's Gate literally takes 4+ min from when I double-click on the icon until when the starting animations begin. And this seems weird but not specifically what I'm writing about, necessarily.
The problem I am having (which may be related to the above) is that the game is very laggy. In Candlekeep it was laggy-ish but playable. But, just outside, now that I have Imoen in my group, every time I move the 2 toons, the screen freezes, I hear footsteps, then after they are done walking, the screen "catches up." Needless to say, if the system is that laggy with just 2 toons, when I have 6 toons and am fighting a mess o bad guys, the game is going to be un-playable.
I am playing on an Alienware 18 laptop under Windows 10 Pro. The system has 16G of RAM, a 750Gb SSD, an i7 processor and dual NVidia GeForce GTX 770M video cards. It's a beast of a laptop that can handle Witcher at full settings. It should not have a problem with anything BG throws at it.
So, thanks tons in advance for any suggestions, advice, or even questions that might help get this headed toward running properly.
capte@aol.com
Ernie Clark