Running BG2EE on Windows 11. As specified in a couple of earlier posts, I added the line SetPrivateProfileString('Program Options','Debug Mode','1') to the end of Baldur.lua, but when I press CTL+Space, there's no console window; the game just pauses or unpauses as if I'd simply pressed the spacebar. (Just to be absolutely clear, I hold down CTL while pressing the spacebar.) Is there something I've overlooked? Does it work differently in Windows 11 than in 10?

step 1 confirm you edited the right Baldur.lua file... it will be in your documents folder not where ever the game is installed

Windows 11 does ike to lie to you about permissions so check you saved these changes before starting the game

step 2 hold down the Left Ctrl first then press spacebar i.e, after ctrl but without letting ctrl go... another option is to press "enter" or "return" instead of spacebar... see images

the same steps are used with Beamdog Steam or Gog builds of the game

Thanks for the tips, but still no joy. I did indeed edit the baldur.lua file in the Documents folder. Just to make sure, I copied the file from the Documents folder on OneDrive (which is what I think the game is using) to the Documents folder on my own hard drive, so now there's an identical baldur.lua in both places, with the line added at the end. I checked both of them, and the line is still there.

I also tried holding down ctrl while pressing Enter. That did nothing.

If anyone has any further ideas, I'm all ears.

the reason modern games like BG3 have moved away from documents into the appdata folder is because of Microsoft highjacking peoples files so if you allow onedrive thats one mystery solved... the problem is your computer not this game

So if I make it use the Documents folder on my hard drive instead of OneDrive, that should fix the problem? Do you know how I would go about doing that?

if you have admin rights you can simply tell it to fuck off
steps = https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/turn-off-disable-or-uninstall-onedrive-f32a17ce-3336-40fe-9c38-6efb09f944b0

i removed it from my system all together but you could also just not put your game folders in it while letting Microsoft keep your other files... that help page has both options