Just installed BD on Win7 64 bit.

Manage to start the game and got past the opening conversation with the Death Knight. But after that the screen auto scrolls to the right very fast until i cannot see the centre of the map anymore.
I move my mouse to scroll back but it does not work and pressing X centers the screen if I hold the X key, releasing it makes the screen scroll to the right again.

Totally not playable in this state.

Any help is much appreciated.

Try running the game in Win98 compatibility mode (right click on the executable or a shortcut, select Properties and switch to the compatibility tab). Even if that doesn't help with the auto-scrolling, it can prevent a rare bug from occurring which can corrupt items in Vista/7 (Inventory graphic placement bug). Maybe that or one of the other compatibility options will help with the scrolling.

If you hit X to centre the screen (double clicking on a character portrait should do the same), then left click on the ground and hold the mouse button down (to direct your character(s) to move) does the screen auto-scroll when you release the mouse button? Holding the left mouse button down should lock the camera on the lead character (though so should 'X')

Left clicking on the minimap (in an uncovered area) will direct your selected characters to move to that location.

There are a couple brief cutscenes if you leave the cell and head either west or south and then west in the corridors. The camera should pan over to a guard in each location and then return to the characters. I don't know if that will effect whatever is causing the scrolling, but it is worth a shot.

Did you try shutting down all non-essential programs before starting the game, particularly anything related to the mouse, or virtual screen programs, etc?

Thanks a great deal! Running in Win98 compat works for me.

Glad it was an easy fix, and welcome to the forum.

This has happened to me about five times. Scrolling to the right has nothing to do with it, it sounds like you are as far as you can be to the left anyway, the game starts out in the upper left corner of the world map.

When wandering around, I usually have my left hand & fingers hovering over the Ctrl button and the Alt button (ready to auto target & highlight/identify items) My right hand utilizes the mouse functions, holding down the left key to navigate, and the using the right key for my magical attacks.

Somewhere in between, I've hit something just right, maybe the "alt" key? I don't know. I have to reset the parameters for this to stop this, not just save and reload. I wouldn't consider it a malfunction, some players may like it, but it almost seems to be a developer mode speed.

I don't know of any Alt or Crtl key combinations that would trigger this effect, and don't recall anyone else reporting this. There were developer mode cheats in the pre-release versions of the game, but AFAIK they were all removed before release.