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[barcibus]

Hello,

Would anyone help me with a crash please? I've just started the game (via the first option "Baldur's Gate") and have yet to speak to Garion. The crash happens whenever I go to the world map (I've tried twice).

Note: there is another thread dealing with this problem. A solution that has worked for some people (but not me) is discussed there. http://www.shsforums...lation-trouble/

Thank you. I looked over there and read the word "reinstall" and pretty much gave up haha. However I did see a mention of 'Big World Debug.txt' and searching for "error"... it seems I did get an error during install: New Worldmap for use with Mega Modification. I'll see if I can figure out how to install just that (and the related skipped installs that followed).

EDIT: It seems they have recently uploaded something that fixes it. Your post in this thread predates the fix they put up.

EDIT2: Ok I went and reinstalled and the issue has been fixed for me (no crash on world map). I deleted Trimpack/Setup-BP-BGT-Worldmap.tp2 and then just ran the Big World Setup program again, choosing to remove files from previous install; I used Recommended with no foreign language mods.

Edited by barcibus, 13 December 2010 - 12:08 AM.

[dabus]

Uhm, so what do you want now?
What's the problem?
Give some details about that.

Edited by dabus, 11 February 2011 - 01:14 PM.

[Jarno Mikkola]

ok I forgot about the most important and most obvious thing, I couldn't turn on BG2

Well, erhm, were you able to run the game before the BWS.. as you NEED to be able to, without any mods so the game autosaves and makes accurate files so the game can be modified based on them.
Now, try to start the game from the "BGMain.exe", and make sure your file extensions are shown, to not get the file confused to other files, just in case.
Open up the file called "WeiDU.log" with Notepad and see if it has Generalized Biffing in it. If not, the game start can take 5 minutes or the time the World End has come, so you need to use the Generalized biffing.

[Setup-infinityanimations.exe] WeiDU version 22700
[Setup-infinityanimations.exe] Using scripting style "BG1"
Using Language [English]

Installing [Infinity Animations] [v5]
Copying 1 file ...
Copying and patching 1 file ...
Copying 1 file ...

Your ANSI code page is set to a value of 1250. Changing it to 1252 (Latin)
for mod animation compatibility.

You must reboot to continue the installation. Reboot now? [Y]es [N]o

Ah, scratch that, your install didn't finish because your computer has wrong non ANSI codec, instructions on how to get the right one(although you don't need it anymore),

3.2 Installing mods with non-ANSI compatible language systems.
The WeiDU.exe uses a preset non-Unicode codepage to load and copy resource files. Some of the resources in mods like the Infinity Animations use characters like £/µ/Þ/... which map to different numerical values on different language code pages. Therefore, when some mods like the Infinity Animations, detect the codepage other than the Windows-1252 "ANSI" codepage used with most Western languages, it can force a registry change to take the 1252(English/United States) as the current codepage and prompt to reboot the system so the change takes effect. Now, this has problems within the BWS as the mods are supposed to be installed in sequence and so a reboot in the middle of the operation will just crash the whole thing, so to fix this issue, you need to preset the language code page to the right one, namely to English(United States) one.

If you have a different codepage and wish to change it manually yourself (and only if), you can set the default system locale for non-Unicode applications to English. This can be done as follows on Windows systems:
* Start ->
* Control Panel ->
* Regional and Language Settings in Classic View OR:

Clock, Language and Region -> Region and Languages, in the fancy view ->

* Click on the Advanced or Administrative tab ->
* Then where it talks about non-Unicode programs, change the language to English(United States) ->
* Then remember to click the Apply. And you need to restart the computer for it to actually take effect.

And here's how to continue after... from the same post of mine:

3.7 Now, if you didn't do as you were told on the US code page thing and your install gets stopped...
...and you don't want to restart the whole BiG World Setup, do alike this poster did.

Next time read the FAQ...

[pryszczu]

ok so I had actually strange problem: during the extraction the CTB didn't extract properly, and the mod was skipped, setup automatically installed TDD, SOS and TS during the installation deleted my chitin.key! (I'm sure that it was before the installation)
I've solved it just by proper unpacking the ctb, after installation of ctb, the installation of TS was succesfull and rest of the installation was ok

and of course if I wouldn't change the code page I would still be in installation part, thanks:]

so now I'm after allmost successfull installation

[10th]

The WeiDU.log in your BG2 folder lists everything you have installed. Readmes to all mods can be found in their folders.

10th

[Tolq]

Hi everyone,

I'm trying for the first time to install BWP using the setup app, and it all goes fine until i reach the tobhacks_v0.5.1 file,
it seems G3 have a newer version and the app cannot download the older one, also i can't seem to find the older version on the internet,

and as that file is marked as essential to any installation of mods it will no procede without it, does anyone here have the older version of the file or can suggest a workaround this issue?

[dabus]

It does sound as if the update failed (maybe you did while the kerzenburg-site was down for maintenance) since tobhacks have been removed in the last version that was put on the server. The best way to do updates would either be fetching the latest update for the standard BWS by restarting the BiG World Setup.vbs or just extract the files yourself by running the extraction script from the BiG World Installpack which resists in the folder BiG World Installpack\Additional Tools and then run the BiG World Install.bat yourself.

Please note that the standard BWS is not up to date any mote and I don't plan to do so. Visit this thread to have an updated version.

Edited by dabus, 15 April 2011 - 10:37 AM.

[Tolq]

Thank you, i will try using the beta version of the new setup

[Tolq]

Used latest BWS for setup, game works, but apperantly i cant interact with any objects, leave area, talk to npcs etc

weidu log attached


ignore that please, im just stupid..

Edited by Tolq, 17 April 2011 - 09:04 AM.

[Eagleheart]

was the game paused?

[dabus]

Looking for BWS tender