Baldur's Gate system help needed

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DeadCujo <dead...@we.mediaone.net> wrote in message
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> I'm playing Baldur's Gate on a Pentium 150Mhz with a Matrox
Millenium 4MB
> non-3d card, and 48MB RAM.
> I chose the slower option on the speed prompt during installation,
and am
> just wondering what else I can do to possibly "speed up" the game
for my
> computer. I have the settings for frame rate and AI updates both set
to 15.
> I'm not sure if those are the same thing or not. Any help would be
> appreciated. Thanks. :)
>
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Ouch! That's one slow system (at last! Someone with a slower
computer than me!). Hmm, I'd guess that turning everything off that
you can (close all other programs etc, turn all game options down to
minimum, turn off weather/sounds etc) would gain you a bit. I
wouldn't fiddle with the BLT options, since they're only supposed to
correct graphical errors, not speed the game up. You could try to
adjust the cache size on your hard drive, so reloading times will be a
bit faster (and if you have the hard drive space, a bigger install
option, or copying files over to your hard drive manually, may also
speed things up). I'm not sure what effect adjusting AI rates will
have, so all you can do there is experiment. After fiddling around
with the game itself, I'm always very reluctant to start messing about
with the computer itself, since mine's walking on a tightrope between
crashing on the one hand and being thrown out the window by me on the
other ;-). HTH.

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