Beamdog is a parasite
It will be interesting to see what their original work looks like and how your idea of Beamdog changes.
Weird, runs just fine on my OS.The EE version of IWD2 is needed. Compatibility with Windows 10 and other newew OSes is almost non-existent. An IWD2:EE would give us functional Windows 10 support and native widescreen support.
Offer it to cuckdog for $80 with the stipulation they are not to sell it. See how much they like it.I can put up a torrent with a patched IWD2 with fixed widescreen and framerate issues for Windwows 7,8,10. By that definition, which is completely sufficient btw, your IWD2 EE is sitting on my SSD right now, and it's completely free.
None of the fixes involve beamdog, and all the mod authors can be credited (I'm not among them), contacted, and donated to, by those who want to express their thanks. Sounds like a much better model for both modders and players than feeding leeches like Beamdog with your hard earned money.
I agree with bigdogchris that EE IWD2 is needed so it can be properly played on modern computers.
I agree with bigdogchris that EE IWD2 is needed so it can be properly played on modern computers.
What would EE bring that IWDII doesn't have now?
I agree with bigdogchris that EE IWD2 is needed so it can be properly played on modern computers.
What would EE bring that IWDII doesn't have now?
Messing with ddraw-fix and widescreen I could never get 100% smooth mouse movement going on Win 10. Alt-tab also isn't instant.
Those are minor issues but I wouldn't mind shelling out a few bucks to solve them and not having to worry about potentially bigger problems in 5/10 years. I guess the area loot would be neat too.
Placing a note here regarding Icewind Dale 2 set up:
After installing the game and installing any mods - tweakpack, widescreen, etc., on windows 7 and above you still need to fix the fog of war and the game lagging.
The reason for this, as far as I was able to understand, is because IWD2 will always run non-accelerated mode. They never implemented 3D support for IWD2.
One suggested fix has been to delete your ddraw.dll from the game's main directory, but in my case this didn't do anything to solve the lag and fog of war problems.
I found and downloaded the latest version of DDrawCompat: https://github.com/narzoul/DDrawCompat/releases
Placing the ddraw.dll provided there fixed my issues with the fog of war and the lag. Now IWD2 runs and looks like any of the other IE games.
DDraw fix does nothing. The fix you need for the stutters and fog of war is different.
Placing a note here regarding Icewind Dale 2 set up:
After installing the game and installing any mods - tweakpack, widescreen, etc., on windows 7 and above you still need to fix the fog of war and the game lagging.
The reason for this, as far as I was able to understand, is because IWD2 will always run non-accelerated mode. They never implemented 3D support for IWD2.
One suggested fix has been to delete your ddraw.dll from the game's main directory, but in my case this didn't do anything to solve the lag and fog of war problems.
I found and downloaded the latest version of DDrawCompat: https://github.com/narzoul/DDrawCompat/releases
Placing the ddraw.dll provided there fixed my issues with the fog of war and the lag. Now IWD2 runs and looks like any of the other IE games.
I see what you mean. The slight mouse pointer lag is something I have in all the IE games, but I don't mind it that much.
In case you didn't know everything that Apostle Hand says is bait.I agree with bigdogchris that EE IWD2 is needed so it can be properly played on modern computers.
IE games are absolutely playable on modern machines. What would EE bring that IWDII doesn't have now? Sikret encounter with tranny kobold tribe? New bugs? If you think beamdoge would really do something good, like adding more interesting 3e classes, redrawing backgrounds (not just rescaling them to a blurry mess ), adding more paperdolls, tweaking the difficulty, etc., you are naive. They will just merge in the widescreen mod, upscale the backgrounds and collect money from idiots who think that '90's games are unplayable'. I recently replayed unmodded IWDII with wine and on win7 machine and it worked without any issues.
Whats the difference, either way they gonna put bunch of faggotry in the game.Yea exactly what everyone wants, Owlcat instead of Beamdog working on Iwd2.
"Thank you for saving me! Here are a bunch of potions that might be useful to you."Whats the difference, either way they gonna put bunch of faggotry in the game.Yea exactly what everyone wants, Owlcat instead of Beamdog working on Iwd2.
"Hello my name is Oswald Fiddlebender, before I lead you to your quest keep in mind I use xir/xer pronouns and do not use my deadname Fiddlestraight."
Party receives Buttplug of Endurance +2, only usable by Chaotic Gender Nonconforming."Thank you for saving me! Here are a bunch of potions that might be useful to you."Whats the difference, either way they gonna put bunch of faggotry in the game.Yea exactly what everyone wants, Owlcat instead of Beamdog working on Iwd2.
"Hello my name is Oswald Fiddlebender, before I lead you to your quest keep in mind I use xir/xer pronouns and do not use my deadname Fiddlestraight."
Party received Potion of Sex Change x5