Running Planescape Torment on new hardware

[djeeten]

It's not easy at all. I found the gibberlings 3 mod which enables widescreen support for games like Planescape Torment and Baldurs gate. An ideal opportunity to blow the dust off the old PST and make another attempt at finishing that little gem. But unfortunately so far I have done nothing but fiddling with my graphics settings to get the game run like it used to. The problem is that I have an 8800 card which has problems with transparent bitmap rendering. The game backgrounds look awesome in wide screen but the fun is spoiled by black boxes around various items such as spells and dropped items. I can solve that problem by enabling software transparency rendering in the game, but then the frame rate drops to unacceptable levels. Does anyone know of a solution for this problem?

 

[Darth Marsden]

The only thing I can find is from the Wikipedia page. I assume you've tried both possible solutions?

During gameplay with newer video hardware (particularly with newer nVidia graphics cards and drivers), there is the possibility of corrupted graphics, especially when casting magics. The game might even crash when these errors occur.

Disabling hardware acceleration has been known to fix corrupted graphics issues. (Display Properties->Settings->Advanced->Troubleshoot)

In order to fix corrupt ?fog of war? appearing as black blocks rather than a dark shade, as well as to fix the crashes caused by casting spells, players may turn on "Software Transparency" in the Video Options menu. This will cause the game to run more slowly in most cases.

Beyond this, I don't know. Sorry.

 

[GothmogII]

Huh...can you do -without- the widescreen mod? Mine works fine on Vista, 7950GT Nvidia card. It's a copy of the old jewelcase too. Although, then again, maybe some find the low resolution off-putting ^^'

 

[GloatingSwine]

I can solve that problem by enabling software transparency rendering in the game, but then the frame rate drops to unacceptable levels. Does anyone know of a solution for this problem?

Go to the menu. Turn software transparency on, go back to gameplay. Now go back to the menu and turn software transparency back off again. It will work properly.

 

[CmdrGoob]

I remember having that problem with an 8800 GT & windows XP. I think I fixed the way wikipedia described, by going Display Properties -> Settings tab -> hit Advanced -> Troubleshoot tab. Then move the Harware acceleration slider to the third point from none. Don't forget to put it back when done! It didn't need software transparency, which also made the game run like crap for me.

Hope that helps.

 

[djeeten]

Thanks for the advice. I turned down the hardware acceleration and its running great now.