So I got a new computer the other day and installed icewind dale 2 and went to play it. (It's a laptop running vista, a dual core processor, not sure what else off the top of my head).

The touchpad works completely, but my keyboard seems to be selectively unresponsive. The esc key works every time I press it, but every other key has to be mashed repeatedly and only responds randomly. I can't find any information about this happening anywhere, and the keyboard works fine with everything else on the computer- any ideas?

I had a slower computer that tried to run IWD2. Hitting space to pause was a nightmare. The only thing I could really do was clear out some background jobs. Not sure if that'll help much.

My laptop keyboard didnt work great either. My laptop was a Dell Latitude D620. I even had an external keyboard connected via USB - a logitech - and it barely worked. Couldnt play the game. The keyboard worked fine in BG2.

Its a known problem with the game, some forums suggested that you disable your touchpad when a mouse was present, didnt help for me.

Sucks, because I could handle typing slower for a characters name. But for combat, no spacebar? not playable.

Now I have my desktop, it should work fine.

The game should be playable without spacebar in combat. You can use autopause or click with the mouse onto the spinning globe in order to pause the game.

I've been looking all over for a solution to this, I've seen tons of posts with people that have this issue but no easy solutions anywhere, must be some incompatibility hidden deep down. Like all the other posts, I'm on a laptop, specifically a Dell 600m laptop. Dell laptops especially seem to be plagued with this issue, although I've seen Viao complaints too.

Sucks, since sure the game is playable when you have to mash every key 10 times to register, but who wants to do that the whole game? That means every time you want to go to inventory, go to spellbook unpause after an autopause etc.

I did notice a post back in 05 where someone seemed to have success after completely rebuilding their laptop and installing a different antivirus software and not installing some mouse drivers. Anyone have this issue and have success with anything OTHER than a complete reinstall of their os?

edit: I just noticed that if you hold down a key when typing in a name etc, it will respond eventually (aaaaaaaaaaaa) but when the letter is scrolling across the name entry it will do so in spurts, almost as if hitting a key is slowing down the game tremendously. I don't notice any slowdown whatsoever ingame though. Specs: 1.5 ghz, 1gb ram, radeon 9000 mobile vcard

I had exactly the same problem on a dell latitude d430. I tried updating and reinstalling a bunch of drivers. The keyboard worked after reinstalling several drivers using the files from the dell support website. I can;t be sure which one it was but I am guessing it was reinstalling the touchpad driver that did the trick.

Keyboard works just fine now!