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[Jarno Mikkola]

Though this goes totally of the topic...

Every time I try to exit Waukeen's Promenade for the first time (following the Irenicus fight there after the initial dungeon), the game crashes and lists something about the baldur.log for a "missing resource". I'm guessing that this has something to do with the exact positioning of the characters on their individual tiles when they're attempting to leave the area. Where would I go about getting the correct coding for this? Thanks for any info.

Well, I would actually say that the position and all that is more related to the files loaded after you leave the first map... which tells us that your worldmap file to corrupted, or the files it is commanded to load are... I would first advice to --change-log the 'worldmap.wmp' file, and when you open the change-log.txt it makes, copy paste the files content to here... or in a new topic.

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 06 December 2010 - 09:41 PM.

[Jarno Mikkola]

After doing a search, I found that I actually have two copies of most of the 'worldmap.wmp' files. Might that have something to do with it? Or is it normal, and I should change-log what's there?

The game uses only one 'worldmap.wmp' file... it's the one in the override folder... but that's besides the point; cause when you --change-log a file, you do that in a game that has been modified by a WeiDU mod, or 1000 of them, and so the check is made relevant to the file currently in use in the game, so we can see what has happened to it. So when you open the change-log.bat that you got form the archive, that now is in the game folder, and edit the '########.###' to be 'worldmap.wmp' and then save it after which you run the file(with double click on it), you get to see(the above.)

[Jarno Mikkola]

Mods affecting WORLDMAP.WMP:
00000: ~BG2FIXPACK/SETUP-BG2FIXPACK.TP2~ 0 0 // BG2 Fixpack - Core Fixes: v9.01 BWP Fix
00001: ~SOA/SETUP-SOA.TP2~ 0 0 // The Stone of Askavar: 1.5
00002: ~SETUP-BGTTWEAK.TP2~ 0 2500 // Access Ulgoth's Beard west of Wyrm's Crossing only: 9 (31 Dec 09)

How's tha... ??????????????????????
OK, you have to become a member for the next one( to upload a file or you could upload the file to here for example), if you are not a member yet...
So go to the game folder, and archive(pack it into a .zip, .rar or others) the WeiDU.log file and upload it to this forum.

The reason why I ask this is that the log seems totally cheesed... it doesn't have the "... ~SETUP-BGT.TP2~ 0 0 // Baldur's Gate Trilogy - Core: ..." at all, but instead it does have the setup-BGTTWEAK.tp2 0 2500, which essentially shouldn't be able-d to be installed without the BGT. And for the others to work, you need the Worldmap mod.

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 07 December 2010 - 09:26 AM.

[Durac11]

Mods affecting WORLDMAP.WMP:
00000: ~BG2FIXPACK/SETUP-BG2FIXPACK.TP2~ 0 0 // BG2 Fixpack - Core Fixes: v9.01 BWP Fix
00001: ~SOA/SETUP-SOA.TP2~ 0 0 // The Stone of Askavar: 1.5
00002: ~SETUP-BGTTWEAK.TP2~ 0 2500 // Access Ulgoth's Beard west of Wyrm's Crossing only: 9 (31 Dec 09)

How's tha... ??????????????????????
OK, you have to become a member for the next one( to upload a file or you could upload the file to here for example), if you are not a member yet...
So go to the game folder, and archive(pack it into a .zip, .rar or others) the WeiDU.log file and upload it to this forum.

The reason why I ask this is that the log seems totally cheesed... it doesn't have the "... ~SETUP-BGT.TP2~ 0 0 // Baldur's Gate Trilogy - Core: ..." at all, but instead it does have the setup-BGTTWEAK.tp2 0 2500, which essentially shouldn't be able-d to be installed without the BGT. And for the others to work, you need the Worldmap mod.

All right, here's the WeiDU.log .zip:

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[Jarno Mikkola]

Well, when combined these all will definitely need the Worldmap mod;

~BG2FIXPACK/SETUP-BG2FIXPACK.TP2~ #0 #0 // BG2 Fixpack - Core Fixes: v9.01 BWP Fix
...
~SETUP-TDD.TP2~ #0 #0 // The Darkest Day, v1.14: v1.14
...
~SETUP-BGT.TP2~ #0 #0 // Baldur's Gate Trilogy - Core: 1.10 (28 August 10)
...

And I am quite sure you need to have the Worldmap mod's folder(with a few files) in the game folder for the TDD to even install ... so what happened to it, did you remove it from the Big World Install.bat or what...

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 07 December 2010 - 09:36 PM.

[Durac11]

Well, when combined these all will definitely need the Worldmap mod;

~BG2FIXPACK/SETUP-BG2FIXPACK.TP2~ #0 #0 // BG2 Fixpack - Core Fixes: v9.01 BWP Fix
...
~SETUP-TDD.TP2~ #0 #0 // The Darkest Day, v1.14: v1.14
...
~SETUP-BGT.TP2~ #0 #0 // Baldur's Gate Trilogy - Core: 1.10 (28 August 10)
...

And I am quite sure you need to have the Worldmap mod's folder(with a few files) in the game folder for the TDD to even install ... so what happened to it, did you remove it from the Big World Install.bat or what...

I'm not sure what happened to it, exactly. Perhaps the Worldmap mod didn't load with the rest of the files for me. Howeverm this is all moot, as installing the Worldmap mod fixed everything. Thanks for all your help.

[Fouinto]

Read, obey and comment this, here.

Hi,
VERY GOOD ! Just a little comment about "7. The "BiG World Install.bat" editing.", I guess it may be more simple to use BWS Beta .

[Jarno Mikkola]

However this is all moot, as installing the Worldmap mod fixed everything. Thanks for all your help.

Well, as long as everything is OK with that, it's good. And you are welcome.

Hi,
VERY GOOD ! Just a little comment about "7. The "BiG World Install.bat" editing.", I guess it may be more simple to use BWS Beta .

Yeah, well, the BWS beta doesn't cover everything, like say custom Megamod Kits , the iiSpellSystemAdjustments05beta2(Uuh, I didn't release that one yet, did I. Nope.) etc. So, if people want, they should get the info. Besides, I need to keep it for other stuff, just like the 90% of the other info the FAQs contains.
Edit: on a second look, I should have and so did add a tiny bit more there. Thanks for contribution.

Yeah, I cut the FAQs to 16 pieces today, so that's new, and worth a small comment like this.

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 29 December 2010 - 02:08 PM.

[Jarno Mikkola]

When trying to transition my game from SoA to ToB, the message came up that the wrong disc was in the CD drive. However, I used a ToB disc to access the previous modded BGI/SoA content. How can this be rectified?

The screen said that the Cd needed to be placed in the E drive, but my computer's D drive is responsible for all disc input for my PC. Is there a way to change the drive location to find the disc inside the game's files (change the file direction from E to D?)

Yes, you just open the file called "baldur.ini" in the game folder, see the [Alias] -header and remove the second references to the drives if you don't have a foreign language install... and make sure to correct the first one so that it points to the game folders CD folder, and you do have a full install don't you.
The baldur.ini's files [Alias] should look like this:

[Alias]
HD0:=C:\Games\BGII - SoA\
CD1:=C:\Games\BGII - SoA\CD1\
CD2:=C:\Games\BGII - SoA\CD2\
CD3:=C:\Games\BGII - SoA\CD3\
CD4:=C:\Games\BGII - SoA\CD4\
CD5:=C:\Games\BGII - SoA\CD5\

Usually the trouble could come from the second reference in the CD2 alias, as that's teh BGII - SoA's game CD... It looked originally like this for me:

CD2:=C:\Games\BGII - SoA\CD2\;D:\CD2\

Where you can just remove this:

;D:\CD2\

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 13 January 2011 - 12:21 AM.

[Jarno Mikkola]

Why do you have 6 CD Alias'es on BGII ? The original only had 5, and why is the game in the \Baldurs Gate\ folder ?
I would assume it would have been in the

C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\BGII - SoA\

Ahh, but that shouldn't matter, if you didn't instruct the game installer to install the game to it's parents(BG1) folder...

Copy the "25Movies.bif" file to here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\CD5\movies\

And that should work, with the above baldur.ini file
Assuming that doesn't work, answer this: What Operation System do you have ?

[Jarno Mikkola]

The 25Movies.bif file is already in that folder. So, since it didn't work, I've got a Windows 7 OS.

Hmm...
Try using this:

[Alias]
HD0:=C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\
CD1:=C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\data\
CD2:=C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\data\
CD3:=C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\data\
CD4:=C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\data\
CD5:=C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\CD5\;C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\data\

Like I said, the BGII - SoA & ToB originally only had 4 + 1 CD's so the CD6 -line doesn't work at all.

[Jarno Mikkola]

That was just what I needed! I can now access ToB now. Thank you very much for your programming expertise.

Erhm, it was more of the force of the impending doom called: I can do this, I can do this, I can do this.
And then rethinking what I was saying, than actual knowing what to do...

But thanks for the conformation that it works, cause now I can remember this(hopefully) and so help others with it.

[Durac11]

It seems I need your help again, Mr. Mikkola.

Immediately following the final fight with Melissan in ToB, the game enters the cinematic window for a major effect to happen. This is just as I take Mellisan down. However, no effect happens, and the party is just whacking away at Mellisan to no effect.

On minimizing the game window, an error message had appeared with the following message:

"An assertion falied in ChVideo.cpp at line number 8641".

I tried looking through the directory for the ChVideo.cpp file, but there didn't seem to be one. Any ideas on what went wrong or where I can start looking for the file?