It seems that Windows 7 still shows the black box bug when running Baldur's Gate (and presumably other Infinity Engine games from the same era) on modern nVidia hardware. I was able to get it working fine with the latest fix that's going around:
IE games and NVidia Series 8 video cards - Spellhold Studios
Downloads for jlanger's nvidia_ddraw_fix - GitHub
IE games and NVidia Series 8 video cards - Spellhold Studios
Downloads for jlanger's nvidia_ddraw_fix - GitHub
My Computer
- Computer Manufacturer/Model Number
- Dell XPS M1730
- OS
- Windows 7 RC1 (7100) / Windows XP SP3 dual-boot
- CPU
- Intel Core 2 Duo (~2.5GHz)
- Memory
- 4 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- nVidia GeForce 8700M GT 256 MB
- Sound Card
- On-board Sigmatel chip
- Screen Resolution
- 1920x1200x32
- Keyboard
- Logitech G15
- Mouse
- Razer DeathAdder