There's a very annoying graphical bug which I can't find a solution for. Basicly some of the sprites like the loot on the ground doesn't has its background transparent.
Here's what an axe on the ground looks like. I've got it patched up right up to the latest patch avaiable.
http://i19.tinypic.com/6ssr9ub.jpg

btw hi everyone

I have the same problem. I also have the problem that NPC dialog in the game play area appears in a giant black box. I fixed both problems by switching to 16-bit color and turning on Software Transparent Blt.

It did fixed it but the performance took a huge hit for some reason. Didn't know IWD 2 was this bugged.

Well, when a game's parent company goes bust less than two years after its release, you can pretty much guarantee there's going to be some unresolved technical conflicts. It's too bad the modding community behind IWD isn't as strong as say BG.

Do you have a Geforce 8XXX Card?
The current nvidia drivers have a bug that breaks DirectDraw transparency.
It's NOT a problem with the game.

Do you have a Geforce 8XXX Card?
The current nvidia drivers have a bug that breaks DirectDraw transparency.
It's NOT a problem with the game.

Oh that explains it then.

You can "fix" this by reducing the level of hardware acceleration.

Go to display properties -> Settings -> Advanced -> Troubleshooting and set the slider to the third setting.

You can "fix" this by reducing the level of hardware acceleration.

Go to display properties -> Settings -> Advanced -> Troubleshooting and set the slider to the third setting.

Thanks, solved the problem.

You can "fix" this by reducing the level of hardware acceleration.

Go to display properties -> Settings -> Advanced -> Troubleshooting and set the slider to the third setting.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YOU SAVED ME.

Funny thing, ID2 worked fine on my old computer (700mhz 128m ram 98se, graphics card from the year 2000) and my new quad core Dell (XP pro) had those horrible graphics glitches until I changed the slider. Should I move it back to maximum when I'm not playing ID2?

omg, thank you so much for figuring out how to solve this issue... In my own thread on this issue, the best suggestion was to use old drivers... which would totally suck. And the 16 color + software BLT slows the game down.

But that hardware acceleration trick works absolutely flawlessly! Thank you!!!

Short Story of this thread (since it's now been stickied)-

If you have black boxes behind items on the ground or on other interactive elements in the game, if you are now using a high end video card, go to the Troubleshooting page in your Display Properties (in Advanced it was for me) move the slider backward to the third slot which should say "Disable all DirectDraw and Direct3D accelerations."

This should fix the problem completely without the performance hit some of the other methods could cause.