Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn

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Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
Baldurs Gate 2 SoA.png
Developers
Publishers
Engines
Release dates
Windows
September 24, 2000
Mac OS
September 2001
OS X
April 18, 2014
Linux
October 14, 2014
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 Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn at Wikipedia
Baldur's Gate
Baldur's Gate 1998
Baldur's Gate: Tales of the Sword Coast
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn 2000
Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition 2012
Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition 2013

For the Enhanced Edition released in 2013, see Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition.

Key points

Advantage The GOG.com version is patched for compatibility with modern systems.

General information

More information Baldur's Gate Wiki
More information GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
More information GOG.com Support Page

Availability[edit]

Source DRM Notes Keys
Retail DRM-free
GamersGate DRM-free Includes Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal expansion.
GOG.com DRM-free Includes Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal expansion.

Version differences[edit]

Information The GOG.com version is pre-patched for modern systems and includes the expansion.
Information Older versions, such as the original release, may have issues running on newer machines.
Information The Dungeons & Dragons Classic Anthology has issues installing on newer operating systems and needs a workaround for the Tutu mod (see Baldur's Gate Tutu).

Essential improvements[edit]

Skip intro videos[edit]

Fix Delete/rename Movies.bif

  1. Go to the installation folder.
  2. Go into data\Movies
  3. Delete or rename Movies.bif

Modifications[edit]

Baldur's Gate Tutu[edit]

The 'Tutu' mod known as BG1Tutu allows the importing of Baldur's Gate files into the Baldur's Gate II engine. For the Dungeons & Dragons Anthology: The Master Collection version copy BGate2.mpi from the CD into the installation folder prior to installing Tutu.[1]

Baldur's Gate II Fixpack[edit]

The BG2 Fixpack is a WeiDU compilation of fixes for Baldur's Gate II. Several modders began working on a new WeiDU fixpack to address the numerous bugs that have been identified. Fixpack currently includes all of the fixes addressed by Baldurdash (including the Game Text Update) and several hundred new bugfixes. The project is ongoing.

Baldur's Gate Trilogy[edit]

The 'Trilogy' mod known as BGT is an alternative to Tutu that also allows the importing of Baldur's Gate files into the Baldur's Gate II engine. In addition, BGT uses a dynamic system to transfer players from the end of Baldur's Gate to the beginning of Baldur's Gate II. For the Dungeons & Dragons Anthology: The Master Collection digital version, simply rename the Baldur's Gate folder to Baldurs Gate without the apostrophe to make it command-line syntax friendly. NOTE: Must have both Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate II installed and their correlating expansions (Tales of the Sword Coast and Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal).[2]

Game data[edit]

Configuration file(s) location[edit]

  Location 
Windows <path-to-game>\
Mac OS
OS X
Linux

Save game data location[edit]

  Location 
Windows <path-to-game>\Save\
Mac OS
OS X
Linux

Save game cloud syncing[edit]

System Native Notes
GameSave Manager Native

Video settings[edit]

Graphics settings.
Graphics option Option WSGF Notes
Widescreen resolution Hackable WSGF WS Bronze.svg Use Widescreen Mod.
Multi-monitor Hackable Grading incomplete
Field of view (FOV) Not applicable
Windowed Native
Borderless fullscreen windowed Unknown
Anisotropic filtering (AF) Impossible
Anti-aliasing (AA) Impossible
Vertical sync (Vsync) Impossible Causes screen flickering on Nvidia cards, see Screen flickering.
High frame rate Unknown

Input settings[edit]

Gameplay settings.
Keyboard and mouse Native Notes
Remapping Native
Mouse acceleration Impossible
Mouse input in menus Native
Mouse Y-axis inversion Impossible
Controller
Controller support Impossible

Audio settings[edit]

Audio settings.
Character sound settings.
Audio options Native Notes
Separate volume controls Native Ambient, sound effects, voice, music and video.
Surround sound Impossible
Subtitles Native
Closed captions Native
Mute on focus lost Native
EAX support Native A3D 2.0,[3] EAX 2[4]

Localizations

Language UI Audio CC Notes
English Native Native Native
French Native Unknown Native
German Native Unknown Native
Polish Native Native Native
Russian Native Unknown Native

Network[edit]

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
LAN co-op Native 2-6
Online co-op Native 2-6

Connection types

Type Native Notes
Peer-to-peer Native
Dedicated Impossible
Self-hosting Native
Direct IP Native

Issues fixed[edit]

Screen flickering[edit]

Fix Screen flickering on Nvidia cards

Information Turn off Vsync and triple buffering in driver control panel.
  1. Open driver control panel.
  2. Go to Manage 3D Settings (from the list on the left side) in Nvidia Control Panel.
  3. Select Program Settings Tab on the right window.
  4. Add baldur.exe (go to the folder where the game is intalled).
  5. Manually disable v-sync and triple buffering.
  6. Accept

System requirements[edit]

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, XP 98, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) 200 MHz 266 MHz
System memory (RAM) 32 MB 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 800 MB 1.2 GB
Video card (GPU)
DirectX 5.0 compatible

References

  1. ↑ Dungeons and Dragons Anthology Installation and EasyTuTu - Pocket Plane Group forums
  2. ↑ Bought D&D Anthology from GamersGate, BG1TOTSC crashes before game loads - The BioWare Forum
  3. ↑ Bladur's Gate II sera A3D 2 - HardWare.fr
  4. ↑ EAX® to EAX® 4.0 ADVANCED HD™ - SoundBlaster.com