I have recently DL and installed EasyTutu and have come across a strange problem that I have not seen mentioned elsewhere on the forum (until now). On a number of the maps I have experienced extreme slowdown issues (when moving around the maps it almost appears as if its jumping from screen to screen rather than moving as normal). It is playable but is far more difficult due to suddenly appearing to jump into a group of monsters (not nice if it happens with the more powerful groups in the game such as Sarevoks acolytes, kobold army in Firewine Ruins and Iron Throne group outside Underground temple to name a few); I have a number of Weidu mods installed and all are compatible and other than the massive slowdown no other problems are arising. My PC specs are as follows (though I doubt that is the cause):-
2.8GHz Pentium D
2Gb memory
2x 200Gb HD
256Mb NVIDIA Graphics card
1024 Resolution (first of the unsupported BG2 resolutions, always worked fine on BG2 and ToB)
300Mb cache
Also everything is maxed out graphic-wise etc. and the mods installed are mainly BG2 (with the exception of the Tutu Mods) and they all worked fine on standalone installs (same resolution, graphic settings, cache setting etc.)
I have completed the first two chapters of BG and am one of those players who like to clear all of the areas to maximise XP etc. The following areas are the ones that I have had the slowdown with:-
AR2700 (area east of Candlekeep) Quite bad; extremely jerky during the sequence Gorion gets killed. Party constantly seems to skip, fine if moving one char at a time.
AR3300 (Beregost) Quite bad; extermely jerky while in group, fine if moving one char at a time.
AR4800 (Nashkel) The worst slowdown; jerky throughout, seems to skip even if moving only one char.
AR5300 (area south of Nashkel) The same performance as Nashkel
AR5100 (Gnoll Stronghold) Not too bad, gets worse once actually in the fort. Fine at the bridge and clearing north area of the map. Again fine if only moving one char.
During the two chapters I completed 12 map areas completely (not including the mine maps); the only thing that might be causing this as far as I can figure out is that all of the above areas have multiple scripted encounters as follows:-
AR2700 Sarevok ambush, Imoen joining, Kolssed meeting
AR3300 Golin Vend directions, Garrick and Silke, Faltis and rogues, Karlat attack, Zhurlong in Burning Wizard, Marl in Feldeposts (later chapter Elminster, Chloe search, Officer Vai)
AR4800 Guard Bardalan info, Neira the assassin, Noober, Berrun Ghastkill meeting, Daer'Ragh (later chapter Nimbul assassin)
AR5300 Albert and Ruffie, Sendai and hunters, Vax and Zal, Larry-Darryl-Darryl
I am going to try a scandisk and disk defrag to see if the installation has split up some files (including full clean install); failing that I'll try removal of the ambient sounds (as suggested by thread starter). Any other suggestions if the above solutions still do not work?