I first picked up a copy of Baldur's Gate a couple of years ago, followed by IWD, BGII and Torment. But that last one was the only thing that worked properly.

Finally got BGII to work without the bloody screen flashing all the time. Apparently my keyboard (I now have two, one for BG, one for everything else) was causing a conflict due to a couple of extra buttons on it, aside from having no relevanvce to the game, and they don't affect anything else I've got. Still a bit annoyed that they've never addressed this in the game, either in an original version or a patch, but at last I can cast spells, and search for traps, wahey! To celebrate I promptly fireballed my own party for old times sake :).

Some ekstra buttons? Are you having a national keyboard? I've been using a danish version, and have never experienced any trouble because of this.

Nope, a Hewlett Packcard one with three 'internet buttons', which are absolutely useless anyway. Otherwise just your standard English keyboard.