Icewind Dale 2 (IWD2) transparency problem on new cards (nvidia 8600 GT)

Posted by mkhairul - December 26, 2007 at 05:12:03 pm -

Categories: Troubleshoot

I’m one of those people who loves gameplay more than the latest hip games. I haven’t had the chance to finish IWD2 in Heart of Fury mode yet. I continued my last saved game at the yuan-ti caves. With 3GB of RAM, nice graphics card, I thought it will run smoothly. When the game finished loading, something is amiss, the loot’s background is black, fog of war doesn’t render properly. WTH?

I tried testing the graphic options software transparency, translucent, etc. Nothing works. I googled several keywords and the one that points me to the light is "nvidia iwd2 transparency". Leads me to spellhold studios forum, IE games and NVidia Series 8 video cards.

Now I can continue my journey to fight Isair and Madae.

Edit: Apparently enabling software transparency slows the game quite dramatically to a point that I felt frustrated in giving commands to my characters. I only enabled Software Mirror Blt of all of the Blt and set the color depth to 16. The game works out fine.

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1. [...] stránkách mkhairul.com bylo řešení problému zveřejněno už 26. prosince loňského roku, avšak jsem se mezitím [...]

   Pingback by PetrMiko.cz - Blog » Icewind Dale 2 na kartě nVidia 8600 GT= problém — May 22, 2008 #

2. Thanks for functional solution! I can finaly play IwD 2 :)) I translated the solution in post of mine on my blog (in Czech), so I hope you don’t mind

   Comment by Petr "kivan" Miko — May 22, 2008 #

3. Good to know it works for you too! I don’t mind it at all. Enjoy IWD2!

   Comment by mkhairul — May 22, 2008 #

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