Icewind Dale & Icewind Dale 2

Themisive · #1 (**permalink**) 04-20-2006, 02:15 PM

I bought both of these not too long ago, however, they don't run on my machiine - its Windows XP Home, apparantly they were produced for PC for the Windows 98 SE platform, is there any possibility of patching them to XP?

I ask this as the compatibility wizard on this issue of XP does NOT seem to work, and believe me, I would like to play these two as they are part of the Neverwinter Nights series of games, the last three of which I have.

kmonster · #2 (**permalink**) 04-21-2006, 08:35 AM

I had no problem with IWD2 under windows XP. Did you install the latest official patches ?

Themisive · #3 (**permalink**) 04-21-2006, 08:53 AM

To be honest, it has been a while since I bought them, I know the packaging said they were for XP, but for some reason they did not load.

Actually thinking about it, I don't think the problem is with the programmes, but rather with the version of XP I was running at the time.

Ever since I got XP, I have been having problems with the Compatibility Wizard - it doesn't work - and I have a sneaking suspicion that is what was causing the problem.

Since then I have updated XP quite considerably, including having SP2 on the machine - indeed last night, just after I posted my original query I tried Icewind Dale II CD1, it spun up OK and did come up with the install screen, and no error messages.