Baldur's Gate runs okay on my Windows 7 laptop (Intel i3, 3 Gb RAM)...apart from the fact that every five seconds or so, it freezes for about a second, then resumes.

Anyone got a fix for something like this?

TIA,

- Mark

Try resetting the color to 16-bit. This helped me.

Thanks for your suggestion, but sadly it's still doing it on 16-bit colour.
I've got Planescape Torment and that does exactly the same thing. any further ideas?

ok then switch to the software mirrors in the video setting, that seemed to help too.

Depending on the problem source (and there can be plenty) you can try:

- Opening baldur.ini with Notepad and setting Low Mem Sounds 2=0 to 1
- Disabling DirectDraw in dxdiag
- Looking at this topic for other fixes

Another thing to try:

Does your sound card have any thing to restore Direct3D Sound for old games? For Creative Labs (soundblaster, etc) it is called Alchemy. You have to tell Alchemy what games it is supposed to work for. Just installing it doesn't do it.

My win7 64bit install was really crawling in 'open' BG areas. Once I turned on Alchemy, thus re-enabling EAX sounds, it got snappy again.

In Vista, Micro$oft made some major changing to how software can touch hardware. Broke sound in a lot of old games... You can get more info here: http://www.creative.com/soundblaster/alchemy/

luck,

ben

Same problem. Windows 7 Home 64 bit on Toshiba laptop. The game pauses very frequently (about once a minute). Sometimes it is an actual pause and everything stops and then continues. Other times it is like lag, where everything warps to the new location after the pause is over. Tried all the suggested fixes but didn't work.

My eventual solution was to install Win XP in Virtual Box. It works fine in the VM. I took a wrong turn through Vmware first though. In Vmware, the mouse pointer was very jittery and pop up labels were flickering like mad.


EDIT:
I installed the game on my Windows 7 64 bit desktop and it works fine. So this is something on the laptop that is causing it. For the record it is a Toshiba A505 model. I've tried various compatibility settings and stripping down the system by disabling all startup items and all non-microsoft services via msconfig. But nothing fixes it.

I'll continue to run it in the virtual box for laptop play.