Thank you. We should now shift our focus to settings, as you have said, many things have been tried before so we will attempt to pick off the most obscure ones first.

In the Catalyst control panel there is a setting called "Catalyst A.I.", could you make sure that "Enable Surface Format Optimisation" not ticked and that "Texture Filtering Quality" option is moved all the way to the right (it will probably say 'High Quality') and then click on apply and then try the game again after a reboot.

Catalyst A.I. changes the way your graphics card runs based on the game is running so when BG2 is running it maybe fine but issues start happen with other games such as IWD.

I'm sorry I looked for a long time and I can't find any of those in the control center. I even typed them in the search feature and nothing came up. The closest thing I found was "Catalyst A.I." and that was in 'Gaming' -> '3D Application Settings' -> and was simply a tick (off/on) box.

*edit* I have been playing around with these options while I'm waiting for your response. For the sake of keeping everything simple I return them to default each time the test is complete. So far everything I've tried has led to the same results except for the compatibility options. Those simply just crash the game when I start it.

Cool. Please could you turn it off and then give the game another attempt. Also please could you take a screen shot of that page of settings.

Do you want my ini file to replace yours?

May be worth a shot


;
; Icewind Dale II - Configuration File
; Copyright (C) 2001-2002 Interplay Entertainment Corp.
;

; Alias
; HD0 should point to the directory in which the game was installed
[Alias]
HD0:=D:\Icewind Dale II\
CD1:=D:\Icewind Dale II\DATA\
CD2:=D:\Icewind Dale II\CD2\

[Program Options]
SoftSrcKeyBltFast=0
SoftBltFast=0
SoftSrcKeyBlt=0
SoftBlt=0
SoftMirrorBlt=0
Tooltips=30
Volume Movie=85
Full Screen=1
Screen Position X=22063544
Screen Position Y=10646253
Font Name=
Double Byte Character Support=0
3D Acceleration=0
16Bit Textures=1
Display Frequency=60
Resolution=800
Maximum Frame Rate=30
Path Search Nodes=32000
Translucent Shadows=1
Sprite Mirror=0
Gamma Correction=2
Brightness Correction=0
Backwards Compatible 3d=0
Volume Music=100
Volume Voices=100
Volume Ambients=100
Volume SFX=100
Display Movie Subtitles=0
Strref On=0
First Run=0
NT Smooth Sound=0
BitsPerPixel=32
GLSetup Driver=-1
Shaded Selection Box=0

[Game Options]
Mouse Scroll Speed=36
Keyboard Scroll Speed=36
Show Character HP=1
Maximum HP=1
Heal Party on Rest=1
GUI Feedback Level=4
Difficulty Level=1
Critical Hit Screen Shake=1
Show Quest XP=0
Duplicate Floating Text=1
Cheats=0
Darkvision=1
Environmental Audio=0
Attack Sounds=1
Footsteps=1
Always Dither=1
Weather=1
Static Animations=1
Translucent Blts=1
Tiles Precache Percent=50
Grant 2000=1
Chucknomitron=1
Locator Feedback Level=3
Bored Timeout=3000
Subtitles=0
Command Sounds Frequency=2
Selection Sounds Frequency=3
Effect Text Level=62
Tutorial State=1
Auto Pause State=0
Auto Pause Center=1
Quick Item Mapping=1
Terrain Hugging=0
Pause On Trap=0
Hotkeys On Tooltips=1
Suppress Extra Difficulty Damage=0
All Screen Shake=1
Hit Point Bar Sequence=0
Current Loading Hint=14

[Movies]
BISLOGO=1
INFELOGO=1
WOTC=1
INTRO=1

[Multiplayer]

[Config]
General=3
Graphics=3
Audio=3
Lock=1
CacheSize=175
[GameSpy]
Enabled=0
Location=US


Go into your installed directory and find icewind2.ini and right click it, select open with and select wordpad

Delete everything from program options down over and copy and paste from program options from mine in. Now save it and try again.

This is the default settings.

http://postimage.org/image/dk502s31t/


@ iainmet

The .ini file in my Icewind Dale has never been touched, do you think that could be a possibility? Also can you please share Icewind Dale 1?

Its the same engine on IWD 1&2 and also BG 1&2

Try that and while you try that I will install IWD which I have from here and do the same with that ini file.

Cool. I will now leave the driver settings alone.

Next up is game colour settings Vs Windows colour settings.

Please could you run Config.exe in the 'Icewind Dale Complete' as administrator.

I have attached two screen prints, does your settings look the same?

Same thing as last time only copy / paste from program options down over :




[Alias]
HD0:=D:\Icewind Dale\
CD1:=D:\Icewind Dale\
CD2:=D:\Icewind Dale\CD2
CD3:=D:\Icewind Dale\CD3

[Program Options]
SoftSrcKeyBltFast=0
SoftBltFast=0
SoftSrcKeyBlt=1
SoftBlt=1
SoftMirrorBlt=1
Tooltips=30
Volume Movie=85
Single Media=1
BitsPerPixel=16
3D Acceleration=0
MiniPort GL=0
Default 3d Display Frequency=70
Maximum Frame Rate=30
Path Search Nodes=400000
Translucent Shadows=1
Sprite Mirror=0
Gamma Correction=0
Brightness Correction=0
Volume Music=100
Volume Voices=100
Volume Ambients=100
Volume SFX=100
Display Movie Subtitles=1
Screen Saver Off=1
Strref On=0
Resolution=800
Font Name=
Double Byte Character Support=0
16Bit Textures=1
Display Frequency=60
Backwards Compatible 3d=0
NT Smooth Sound=0
Full Screen=1
GLSetup Driver=-1

[Game Options]
Mouse Scroll Speed=28
Keyboard Scroll Speed=36
Show Character HP=1
Maximum HP=0
Heal Party on Rest=1
GUI Feedback Level=4
Hector Type=100
Footsteps=1
Giampa Range=1
Locator Feedback Level=3
Bored Timeout=3000
Always Dither=1
Subtitles=0
Command Sounds Frequency=2
Selection Sounds Frequency=3
Effect Text Level=62
Infravision=0
Weather=1
Tutorial State=1
Attack Sounds=1
Auto Pause State=0
Difficulty Level=3
Quick Item Mapping=1
Environmental Audio=1
Terrain Hugging=0
Static Animations=1
Translucent Blts=1
Pause On Trap=0
Show Quest XP=0
Critical Hit Screen Shake=1
Nightmare Mode=0
Cheats=0
3E Thief Sneak Attack=0
Tiles Precache Percent=100
Auto Pause Center=1
Suppress Extra Difficulty Damage=0

[Config]
CacheSize=175
General=1
Graphics=1
Audio=1
Lock=1
[Movies]
BISLOGO=1
TSRLOGO=1
INTRO=1
WOTC=1
[Multiplayer]
Last Protocol Used=0


Thats working fine on my Win 7 64bit system

@ iainmet

I copied the .ini files over and nothing seemed to have changed.

@ nullzero

Our settings match up the exact same!

Turn off the OpenGL setting, it has a habit of making the screen flash, software mode looks exactly the same and modern systems have ample power to run any Aurora engine game.

That's something I've toyed with for a while already. I'm doing a step by step troubleshooting with nullzero right now so I don't want to mess with anything he doesn't tell me to.

Could you try the following set settings testing the game between each one.

1. Using the Windows control panel. Change the display resolution down to 800 x 600 and ensure that 32bit colour is enabled (sometimes also called 24 bit colour).

2. If that does not work, still keeping the above settings in place, un-check the open GL option from the screen prints that I provided previously..

Just sneaking in here. It's the Infinity Engine, not Aurora. Aurora is the 3D engine used for Neverwinter Nights (and in modified form for the sequel and some other games, including The Witcher and Knights of the Old Republic).

Yes you're right, Aurora came straight to mind when I was typing that sorry!

Alright those have been tested. The game continued to load the same way, and the same greyed box appeared. (I really wish we could find out what the error message is at least.)