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[Rascar]

You might be forgetting to add spaces between 'Black Isle' and perhaps 'Program Files'. (this is my BG dir: D:\program files\Black Isle\Baldur's Gate)

[Isaya]

The 3 CD version of Baldur's Gate and Tales of the Sword Coast is using a different kind of BIF files, which are compressed, hence the reduced number of CDs compared to other editions. The CBF files are those compressed BIF files. If you have them in the data directory on the hard disk, that should be fine. You shall have both BIF and CBF files on your installation. It doesn't matter whether the files have CBF or BIF extension, what matters is that you have all the listed names (extension aside).

However, there may be another problem to solve. There is a version on 3 CD that is not making properly a full installation, at least one version available in French is suffering from this. The consequence is that files Area4100.bif and Area4300.bif are missing. There is a workaround: these files are installed in case of recommended installation. So the process to make a full install would be:

• install Baldur's Gate in the "recommended" mode (I can't be sure it's the proper term, this is a translation of the French word)
  
• copy Area4100.bif and Area4300.bif from the Data directory in a safe place (out of the game directory)
  
• uinstall the game
  
• install the game again, this time with a full installation : the two files should be missing
  
• move the files back from their safe place into the Data directory

[Miloch]

Install it somewhere like C:\Games\BG1 instead. Make sure you do a custom/full install (this isn't as apparent when installing BG1 as it is for BG2). Don't install either BG1 or BG2 to any flavour of Program Files under Vista or Win7. It will save you a lot of trouble, even if you have UAC off.