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[Himself]

Done it. Thanks for the replies anyways.

In case anyone wish the files just drop a PM

[dabus]

VMPlayer was free and is able to run VMs. And the last news I heard about it was that it could create the files that are used to emulate the harddisk. So I would use VMWare's VMPlayer since it's the "leader" of virtual machines, it's portable and runs quite smooth, at least my win2k on my linux-system.

[Jarno Mikkola]

i've recently acquired minsc, and noticed that boo is not in his quickslot, but in his inventory. still as immovable as ever however. Is this intended? is there risk in changing it with shadowkeeper?

Well, it's intended, I think it comes from a mod.

As an aside, how can i (safely) change my resolution? at first 1920x1200 seemed fine, but after a few hours of playing i'm finding myself moving my head too close to the screen much too often.

Well to be totally safe, I would suggest that you copy the whole game directory(BGII - SoA) to another folder new folder, so the game files end up for example into C:\Backup\BGII - SoA\
Then you just start the setup-widescreen.exe in the original game folder(that you just copied), and reinstall using the different resolution, and while it does that, go to do chores, cause the install is going to take a while...

[Lollorian]

Is it intended that the BWPFixpack doesn't have the reevorfixer.tp2?? It can supposedly still fix this error that I got (only in BWPExpert though )

[Jakar]

As an aside, how can i (safely) change my resolution? at first 1920x1200 seemed fine, but after a few hours of playing i'm finding myself moving my head too close to the screen much too often.

Well to be totally safe, I would suggest that you copy the whole game directory(BGII - SoA) to another folder new folder, so the game files end up for example into C:\Backup\BGII - SoA\
Then you just start the setup-widescreen.exe in the original game folder(that you just copied), and reinstall using the different resolution, and while it does that, go to do chores, cause the install is going to take a while...

Or, if you really made a back up of your game, you may cut-paste widescreen mod entry to the very end of weidu.log file. Then re-run setup-widescreen.exe and choose resolution you want. Don't blame me too much that i told here a total heresy, if it will make your game unplayable. This way worked for my game without any error.

Edited by Jakar, 08 January 2010 - 09:58 PM.

[Jarno Mikkola]

Or, if you really made a back up of your game, you may cut-paste widescreen mod entry to the very end of weidu.log file. Then re-run setup-widescreen.exe and choose resolution you want. Don't blame me too much that i told here a total heresy, if it will make your game unplayable. This way worked for my game without any error.

But the problem there is that the BGMain.exes backup made by the Widescreen mod, doesn't include the proceeding mods, like the ToB_Hacks, making them not installed. It would be OK if it was just the Generalized Biffing, but as it's not...

[dreamer2007]

Something is not very clear to me about the BWP updates. I see that BWS gets updated frequently, but the Big World install doesn't. Does the BWS modify automatically the install bat to a new version to include the new mods and the new install order of the components of updated mods?

[Lollorian]

There are 2 kinds of BWP updates: major and minor

Major updates:

They're the ones that have new version numbers (BWP7, BWP8 etc etc)

They'll give you new mods, new tools (installpack, fixpack, setup) and most importantly, a new guide

Minor updates:

They're ths numbers after the decimal (BWP8.1, BWP8.2 etc)

They'll give you new fixes for existing mods, remove the fixes when mods are updated, change the category of a mod (like Exnem's Vault went from Standard -> Expert ) etc. The most important thing is, minor updates never add a mod to the BWP

They're usually updates to the BWPFixpack (the latest one being Fixpack 8.2.8 ) ... stupid smiley

Sometimes, the install order of the mods need to be changed, so they release a new Installpack (so, when 1PP went from installing last to being installed first, they released Installpack 8.2.1 ... which is the latest one )

The install.bat comes from the Installpack, and it uses the Fixpack (whatever version is there in your system) and applies whatever is in the fixpack to your mods

So, the BWS doesn't mod anything (yet ), everything depends on thecombination of Installpack and Fixpack used!

Edited by Lollorian, 10 January 2010 - 12:00 AM.

[dreamer2007]

Thanks Lollorian for the detailed answer . I knew already those things ( being a veteran BWP user ), but the BWS being still kinda new, and improving, I thought that maybe it reached a level when it could update the install bat. I just wanted to make sure if that was the case, because I've seen that there wasn't a new installpack version since November, but a lot of new BWS versions were launched.

Edited by dreamer2007, 10 January 2010 - 12:09 AM.

[Lollorian]

A lot of BWS versions??

If you mean the (almost) daily updates to the linkliste, yeah, they;re updated rapidly But they're just updated links to download the mods, they don't change the install order and stuff

[Jarno Mikkola]

Major updates:
Minor updates:

And a link update: Update the BiG World Setup.vcs gets the latest update daily from this site.(well, that's a close assumption)

So, the BWS doesn't mod anything (yet ), everything depends on the combination of Installpack and Fixpack used!

Ouh, so downloading, extracting and generally running the things is nothing. Hmm, well yeah, it's not the adaptive-Installpack yet, but it's the Setup, and the beta is, well a beta... stupid smiley.

[Lollorian]

So, the BWS doesn't mod anything (yet ), everything depends on the combination of Installpack and Fixpack used!

Ouh, so downloading, extracting and generally running the things is nothing. Hmm, well yeah, it's not the adaptive-Installpack yet, but it's the Setup, and the beta is, well a beta... stupid smiley.

... doesn't do anything ... to the installpack and fixpack

[Jarno Mikkola]

... doesn't do anything ... to the installpack and fixpack

E-ee-rm. It does; download them, extract them and runs them.

[Lollorian]

*grumble* *grumble* Yeah, I tooootally forgot about that!!!

... >_> ... >_<

[dabus]

Look at BiG World Setup\Docs\Changelog.txt to see what happened the last few updates.
It's not really that much.

[Homer_S]

I did a "Recommeded" install and have been quite pleased. There is a somewhat known corruption regarding Haeball and Aurora's shoes. Can this be noted as a conflict?

Also, I noticed a great deal of updating going on. Once that is complete, will the install be updated?

Thanks Again!
Homer

[Miloch]

I did a "Recommeded" install and have been quite pleased. There is a somewhat known corruption regarding Haeball and Aurora's shoes. Can this be noted as a conflict?

It's not a conflict but something wrong with the area we haven't figured out yet. Both NTotSC and Aurora should probably be recoded to use the area macros in the latest WeiDU, and if it's still a problem, it has to be either that standard code or some other mod causing it (or perhaps the area had issues to begin with). There is a CLUA workaround as Hoppy noted, so use that for now.

[Homer_S]

I did a "Recommeded" install and have been quite pleased. There is a somewhat known corruption regarding Haeball and Aurora's shoes. Can this be noted as a conflict?

It's not a conflict but something wrong with the area we haven't figured out yet. Both NTotSC and Aurora should probably be recoded to use the area macros in the latest WeiDU, and if it's still a problem, it has to be either that standard code or some other mod causing it (or perhaps the area had issues to begin with). There is a CLUA workaround as Hoppy noted, so use that for now.

Raises hand...

Is there a good post to tell me what "CLUA to AR9001" means?

Homer