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[flinx]

My biggest issue with reinstalling the widescreen mod is how much time it takes to do for a megamod install. I had to try out several resolutions until I found one that's optimal. It's probably better to do the testing on a clean BG2 install first (which shouldn't take long on a modern computer), to get a feel for the viewable area as well as text clarity, and then reapply the selected resolution to the BWP install.

[Daelomin]

Ok, the known WoP error's there (so it didn't install )

Other than that, there's these 2 things: (1Sylm and tb#quest)

[1Sylm\Zy1800\Zy18EWRD.BAF] PARSE ERROR at line 122 column 8-64
Near Text: )
	[CheckStat] argument [WIZARD_PROTECTION_FROM_NORMAL_WEAPONS] not found in [Stats.IDS]

[tb#quest/udmage/compile/tb#udrow.BAF] PARSE ERROR at line 433 column 8-77
Near Text: )
	[CheckStatLT] argument [WIZARD_PROTECTION_FROM_MAGIC_WEAPONS] not found in [Stats.IDS]

[tb#quest/udmage/compile/tb#udrow.BAF] PARSE ERROR at line 611 column 1-72
Near Text: )
	[CheckStatLT] argument [WIZARD_PROTECTION_FROM_MAGIC_WEAPONS] not found in [Stats.IDS]

So, if ya didn't get greedy with the resolution, you'd have a perfectly good game (ya might wanna take flinx's word on it and try to reinstall though )

Cheers,
Lol

Do you think it'd be a really bad idea to try changing the res? I mean, it looks like it was one of the last things installed, according to the Weidu log (correct?).

Edited by Daelomin, 16 November 2009 - 07:14 PM.

[Daelomin]

My biggest issue with reinstalling the widescreen mod is how much time it takes to do for a megamod install. I had to try out several resolutions until I found one that's optimal. It's probably better to do the testing on a clean BG2 install first (which shouldn't take long on a modern computer), to get a feel for the viewable area as well as text clarity, and then reapply the selected resolution to the BWP install.

How would I go about trying to change the res though? i mean, there's no Widescreen-setup exe in the game folder (I'm assuming it was cleaned out by the big world cleanup exe?). So would I just download the widescreen v2.2 mod, unpack and reinstall as a stand-alone, or no?

Edited by Daelomin, 16 November 2009 - 07:16 PM.

[Lollorian]

I'm assuming it was cleaned out by the big world cleanup exe?

@BWP: I dunno if it got fixed in the newer BWP's but can you make a changelog after doing that now??

So would I just download the widescreen v2.2 mod, unpack and reinstall as a stand-alone, or no?

Yep

Cheers,
Lol

[Leomar]

@ quinlan

At the end of availability checking i got this message:

-Summary-
These selected downloads are defect:

Boards o' Magick Item Pack (BoM Item Pack) v2.0
Improved Volcano! (Pack for ToB) v2.0
Mersetek le Joaillier v1.2
Alcool v0.9
Au service d'Oghma v1.5
Teleport Spell v13
Kiara-Zaiya NPCs (with translations) v1.6
Improved Summons v2.01
Finished.

It looks like you have had a bad time for downloading these mods. All listed mods are from sorcerers.net and from the French website. I think, the websites were short down as you try to download them. This happens sometimes and normally the BWS should guide/help you to get the mods from the net.



@ Lollorian

Would it be a better option to just check the "Further customize install" by default, or just force the user to select his mods and make a backup (to prevent stuff like this)

Or maybe rename it to "Manually choose mods" or something

We'll add the word "mod" in the discription, so it sounds a little bit clearer:
"Further customization of your mod-settings"

Why we choose this way of functionality? Normally new users which known BG, but not the mods, are helpless with all the megamod informations. We want to make it as easy as possible for them. That means they start the BWS, choose a BWP-Version (hopefully the Recommend one) and start it. The BWS does all the work for them and they don't need to know anything. Therefore we choose this way. For experienced BG gamers who knows some of the mods and a little bit about megamods, we give them the option to customize their installs. And therefore it is easier to let beginners start without clicking anything to go further and the experienced gamers choose to "Further customization of your mod-settings".



@ Kalanyr and Sanity
Thanks for your debug-reports and Lollorian thank you, for looking into the large debugfiles to report it. We'll check the shown warnings/errors.



@ flinx

I had to try out several resolutions until I found one that's optimal. It's probably better to do the testing on a clean BG2 install first (which shouldn't take long on a modern computer), to get a feel for the viewable area as well as text clarity, and then reapply the selected resolution to the BWP install.

Nice description. I'll take it and add it to the first post of this thread. EDIT: Done.


Greetings Leomar

Edited by Leomar, 16 November 2009 - 08:55 PM.

[quinlan]

Thank you Leomar.

This is what i got when the downloading process ended:

The following mod(s) could not be downloaded:
Boards o' Magick Item Pack (BoM Item Pack) v2.0: The Mod itself (BoM_Item_pack.rar)
Improved Volcano! (Pack for ToB) v2.0: The Mod itself (Volcano_Pack.zip)
Teleport Spell v13: The Mod itself (Teleport.rar)
Improved Summons v2.01: The Mod itself (Improved_Summons.rar)

Some files cannot be downloaded with the "BiG World Setup".
Do you want to try to load the mods again or open the links in your default-browser to try it yourself?
Enter [y]es, [r]etry or [n]o.

I have downloaded them on my own from the German or French site and i have them in my main BG directory. What should i chose?

[dabus]

If you already have extracted them into your BG2-folder, choose no.

Concerning the widescreen-mod: Wouldn't it be as effective to copy the weidu.log, edit the original one so that it only contains the widescreen-line, and reintall the mod?

Edited by dabus, 16 November 2009 - 11:38 PM.

[quinlan]

This is what i did:

The following mod(s) could not be downloaded:
Boards o' Magick Item Pack (BoM Item Pack) v2.0: The Mod itself (BoM_Item_pack.rar)
Improved Volcano! (Pack for ToB) v2.0: The Mod itself (Volcano_Pack.zip)
Teleport Spell v13: The Mod itself (Teleport.rar)
Improved Summons v2.01: The Mod itself (Improved_Summons.rar)

Some files cannot be downloaded with the "BiG World Setup".
Do you want to try to load the mods again or open the links in your default-browser to try it yourself?
Enter [y]es, [r]etry or [n]o.
If you got the file, please save as: BoM_Item_pack.rar
Enter [n]ext URL or [c]ancel.
If you got the file, please save as: Volcano_Pack.zip
Enter [n]ext URL or [c]ancel.
If you got the file, please save as: Teleport.rar
Enter [n]ext URL or [c]ancel.
If you got the file, please save as: Improved_Summons.rar
Enter [n]ext URL or [c]ancel.
The following mod(s) could not be downloaded:
Boards o' Magick Item Pack (BoM Item Pack) v2.0: The Mod itself (BoM_Item_pack.rar)
Improved Volcano! (Pack for ToB) v2.0: The Mod itself (Volcano_Pack.zip)
Teleport Spell v13: The Mod itself (Teleport.rar)
Improved Summons v2.01: The Mod itself (Improved_Summons.rar)

The Installation should be able to run properly.
Missing mods, which were needed, can ruin the installation.
Check if you need the mods, which you could not downloaded.
For safety reasons, the mods will be removed from the install-list and will be ignored from now on.
Enter [r]emove missing mods or [c]ancel.

So what happens now? Have i downloaded them for the BWP, or not? I entered [n], downloaded and put everything in 'BiG World Downloads' in the requested forms (zip, rar).

[quinlan]

After the Archive test i got this result:

-Summary-
These selected mods are missing:

Boards o' Magick Item Pack (BoM Item Pack) v2.0
Improved Volcano! (Pack for ToB) v2.0
Selune's Armoury v2
Jan's Extended Quest v1.3
Teleport Spell v13
Big Picture (BP) v1.79d
Improved Summons v2.01
Finished.

It erased Improved Volcano! which i had put manually because it couldn't download it. Now what do i do? Can i install Volcano! after i finish with BWP?

[Jarno Mikkola]

After the Archive test i got this result:
It erased Improved Volcano! which i had put manually because it couldn't download it. Now what do i do? Can i install Volcano! after i finish with BWP?

Well, did you start the BiG World Install.bat and continued to install all the files, if so and it installed everything already, then does the Volcano already exist in the WeiDU.log, when you open it with Notepad, and if it does, the mod is alrweady installed, and you can then just start the game.

Now, if the BiG WorLd Install.bat have not installed anything yet, but the archives have already been unarchived (the mod files are in the game directory), then you need to continue to the installation...

And I am not very clear about this, but you might have meant:

Now what do I do? Can I install Volcano! after I am finish with BWP?

To which the right answer is, the BiG World Install.bat(that is started when the BiG World Setup.vs ends, the black WeiDU looking window) will install all the mods not in the Summary, so the Volcano will be installed if you just continue to the installation, and not do another file check.

Is it possible, once the install is complete and everything is biffed and cleaned up, for the entire BG2 directory to just be transferred to other comps and/or burned onto DVDs and played straight from the folder without actually being installed?

Yep, since the BWP-modded game doesn't require the CD, it's only a matter of copying the entire folder to THE SAME PATH where it is on the original PC (otherwise, you may need to edit the paths under the [Alias] section of the baldur.ini)

Why didn't you just point into here#7?
You made me feel lonely...

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 17 November 2009 - 01:14 AM.

[quinlan]

Well, did you start the BiG World Install.bat and continued to install all the files, if so and it installed everything already, then does the Volcano already exist in the WeiDU.log, when you open it with Notepad, and if it does, the mod is alrweady installed, and you can then just start the game.

Now, if the BiG Wolrd Install.bat have not installed anything yet, but the archives have already been unarchived (the mod files are in the game directory), then you need to continue to the installation...

I am incapacitated! How do i check these things you write about?

[Jarno Mikkola]

I am incapacitated! How do i check these things you write about?

1) Has all the mods been extracted correctly?(Are they in the game folder)
2) Is the BiG World Setup still running? It will start the BiG World Install.bat when it ends itself.
3) Is the BiG World Install.bat running, and is it installing the mods? Has it finished?

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 17 November 2009 - 01:21 AM.

[quinlan]

I went back and did the link test again. Now some new are defect!

-Summary-
These selected downloads are defect:

Shadows over Soubar (SoS) v1.13
Region of Terror (RoT) v2.1
Boards o' Magick Item Pack (BoM Item Pack) v2.0
Improved Volcano! (Pack for ToB) v2.0
Teleport Spell v13
Improved Summons v2.01
Finished.

SoS was not defect before!
Should i erase EVERYTHING and make a new install of BG and BWP?

I am very confused. I put it in the Bwp downloads, i made a new archive check and it still cannot find it the Volcano!

Edited by quinlan, 17 November 2009 - 01:23 AM.

[quinlan]

Here is a new craziness. I exited the BWP. I opened it again, i reached the archive test and:

Checking Improved Volcano! (Pack for ToB) v2.0
The archive does not have the correct size.

Why all this trouble for a small item mod? Can something be done with the URL which BWP couldn't find and was the start of my troubles? Because i dont seem to be able to manualy enter something that the BWP doesn't find when downloading the mods. Can i install it after everything is done, or will it bug the whole installation?

Edited by quinlan, 17 November 2009 - 01:34 AM.

[Jarno Mikkola]

Can i install it after everything is done, or will it bug the whole installation?

I would suggest to extact the mod to the game folder(so you have the setup-volcano.exe, setup-volcano.tp2 files and the Volcano folder there), and then just run the BiG World Install.bat, it will install the Volcano! mod too.

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 17 November 2009 - 01:46 AM.

[quinlan]

Can i install it after everything is done, or will it bug the whole installation?

I would suggest to extact the mod to the game folder, and then just run the BiG World Install.bat, it will install the Volcano! mod too.

You mean after i finish with BWP that i have running now and which cannot find it?

[Jarno Mikkola]

You mean after i finish with BWP that i have running now and which cannot find it?

Yes, that is if you are absolutly sure you have the same archive this site gives you.

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 17 November 2009 - 01:47 AM.

[quinlan]

All right, will try. Where will i find BiG World Install.bat?

Thanks for the patience, a totally non-impish trait!

[Jarno Mikkola]

All right, will try. Where will i find BiG World Install.bat?

It's in your game folder, at least if the BWS has extracted all the other files.

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 17 November 2009 - 01:52 AM.

[quinlan]

I don't see it.

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