OOC:The Baldur's Gate series is very good. It's a good mix between IceWind Dale and Planescape: Torment. NWN is also very good, although I dislike the mercenary thingy. Somehow it seems too shallow compared to BG. It's also pretty sad that you're only allowed to hire one mercenary at a time. But what the hey. The games' strong side is the multiplayer part.


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4. If you cannot do any install without getting some sort of error or crash and you have about 5 Gig of free hard drive space, you can try to copy all 4 CDs to your hard drive, then run the install from there. Note, you must copy all 4 CDs to the same directory for the install to run. If you get prompted for the next CD, then you have not copied the files over properly, or you have missed some.

6. Try turning off DMA for your CD/DVD drive. You can find this checkbox by going to your Control Panel, then to System, then to the Device Manager tab. Find your CD/DVD drive and bring up its Properties, then go to the Settings tab.