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[farmerjohn]

Thanks, now I am running into some install.bat issues.  I think that this is because I did not turn off UAC and instead just hit "OK".  I have noticed that it says, "applying tweak pack to XYZ" and every time I restart that file name changes to the next one in the alphabet.  I am worried that if I fix this issue by disabling UAC that it will skip over the first few files when it is applying the patch.  I am not sure if I have to redo the entire install at this point.

Edit:  I think I fixed them.  I ran Trimpack, fixpack and install pack from an administrative command line.  I was able to boot into the game and clearly things have changed.  My res is higher, the initial UI is different and I have more class options.  I think it worked though I will have to test it out further later this week.  Thank you for this great software.

Edited by farmerjohn, 07 May 2012 - 07:36 AM.

[Sasha Al'Therin]

try extracting that particular mod manually. It should notice that it has already been extracted when you restart the installer... its not a solution just a possible work around....

[Sasha Al'Therin]

Did you have your own copy of 7z installed and properly working before trying the BWS beta?

Might be possible that the 7z program is needing something else that isn't on your system if you didn't have it prior. could be something as simple as directory structure too.
I did mine with the following tree:
H:\games\bwp - has the bws .vbs files
H:\games\bwp\big world setup - has the rest of the bws files
H:\games\bwp\baldur's gate - copy of my clean original install
H:\games\bwp\big world downloads - were all the downloaded mods go
H:\games\bwp\bwp-*** -where *** is a description of the specific setup of the modified BG2 (cloned install using the built in clone tool)

looks to me like you are trying to extract from one directory to a higher level directory rather than as I did into a same level directory. I know that shouldn't be a problem, but who knows... at this point it's worth a shot right?

[dabus]

If you still have the BiG World Setup\Logs\BiG World Extract Debug.txt, I'd be interested if it contains some additional info.
There should be either a line like Process-Error: STDStream does not exist or ProcessWait-Error: XZY or STDInWrite-Error:XZY.
I had that error occasionally (lets say 5-10 times in 4 years) and I wasn't able to reproduce it since adding the additional logging.

Basically the BWS starts a hidden cmd, writes the commands in its stdin and gets its stdout-stream.
That could fail if COMSPEC is not defined (try echo %COMSPEC% in a cmd). If it fails, add it to your system variables... guess this is [url=http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2276483/what-should-comspec-and-path-environmental-variables-be-to-locate-the-command-in]a good example[/url}.

The other problem would be heavy system load, so the response-timeout kicks in. Or a failure to write the command or something beyond my knowledge. If you made it this far, you could try to use the BiG World Install.bat and see if many mods are missing and use that batch for the installation.
If mods are not present, you could use a batch to extract the files (see BiG World Installpack\Additional Tools).

[Fouinto]

Just a simple remark : it seems to happen when extracting, so, he already pass the download step without this kind of error ?
If it's true, I guess this could eliminate the COMSPEC error...

Just my cents (I can't help further).

[dabus]

The download is not shown in the "console"-tab by capturing a cmd and the wget-program is started directly. So you may pass that step (if I'm not wrong).

[GeN1e]

I can't know for certain - BWP/BWS is not my specialty - but it appears that BWS fails to install Item Revisions.

[dabus]

@Casper:
I did. Ajantis just got another few images.
And I did not recognize it since it since those are sub-components and WeiDUs --list-components does not print those.

So adding that test would fail if the modder uses subcomponents. Otherwise it would be possible...
You can look into the selection-screen, choose Manage components and select a mod that you have in your folder to see what's already present.

@GeN1e:
You could have a look at BiG World Setup\Logs\BiG World Extract Debug.txt.
All extractions are done by 7zip and are logged there.
I noticed a flaw in the coding that causes the BWS not to stop when it detected faults in that case.
I just got another bunch of stuff to do, so updating takes a while.

I also noticed that this is a new version, right?
Installing [Item Revisions by Demivrgvs] [V3 Beta 1.7]

The fixpack contains patches for

-VERSION ~V3 Beta 1.1~
+VERSION ~V3 Beta 1.6~

so they may cause some trouble... maybe someone can confirm that if (s)he wants to.

And also a small question: Why would people upload their stuff to mediafire if they host their mods at g3?
I don't see any benefit. (If uploading works...)

Edited by dabus, 09 May 2012 - 02:04 PM.

[Sasha Al'Therin]

And also a small question: Why would people upload their stuff to mediafire if they host their mods at g3?
I don't see any benefit. (If uploading works...)

I think because getting some things done is a rather slow process due to RL issues for the people with the powers. IR does a lot of intermediate changes between official versions so bothering the staff with minor updates is something they probably do not wish to do.

Same thing is true with the BG Fixpack. I've got that on my own website even tho it's intended to be hosted at G3. Tho it's not quite ready for G3's hosting, almost but not quite.

[dabus]

The BWS tries to replace the Setup-allison.exe. So the problem is not a weidu.exe that was not found but the replacement of this mods setup.
So its suggestion is to close instances of setup-allison.exe in your taskmanager and so on. If you don't have the permission to alter the file and have to accelerate to the admin-user, you also got that error. So you could try to replace that file with a copy of Weidu\Weidu.exe and see what happens.
If you are able to replace the file, the BWS should just go on to the next one. If you get a "accelerate to the admin-user"-message, you could try to close your internet-connection and run the BWS as an admin.

[Sasha Al'Therin]

So first question: Now (suddenly), when I import my selection from the file I have created with BWS, it says that it "found new mods/components" and that they should be marked with [N] and that I should be able to search for them using search term [New] (with brackets). Well I have searched for [New], (New), [N], (N) etc and it does not work. It does not seem to search at all. At least nothing happens on the screen. How can I know what changed? I don't see any [N]'s either in the list, to be honest, but I just skimmed quickly.

I've done similar with importing a previous weidu.log where I did things manually. If you look in the selection pane where all the mods are listed you should see [N] to the right side of all mods in the list not part of the imported selection. I did not actually try to search as with the limited selection of mods I manually did it was blatantly obvious which were new.

Second question: Until you have updated the BWS to allow it, I wanted to manually remove the "Flirts" part of Edwins romance. However, in the BWS interface it seems to be impossible to manually remove the dependency. At least i can't find it. And I don't know where/which file of the BWS to manually edit either. Can you point me in the right direction for how to do this?

I think what you want is in the setup.ini file found in the config directory of the BWS There is a work in progress FAQ that might explain a little about how to make the changes you want. It's located in the docs directory of the BWS
but i THINK under the connections section in the setup.ini you want to change this

Edwin dependancies=D:EDWINROMANCE(-)&EDWINTOB(-)&EDWINFLIRTS(-)

into this

Edwin dependancies=D:EDWINROMANCE(-)&EDWINTOB(-)|EDWINFLIRTS(-)

or this

Edwin dependancies=D:EDWINROMANCE(-)&EDWINTOB(-)

Not sure which to be honest. The first one changes the value from AND to OR but that might make it so that either Edwin Tob is installed or the flirts. The last one just drops it altogether. That might be the one you are looking for, tho it will allow the flirts to be installed without the others. I suppose you could try to adjust the dependencies by making an entry further down under the sub heading

; one mod/component need multiple others

and do something like

Edwin Flirts=D:EDWINFLIRTS(-)&EDWINROMANCE(-)&EDWINTOB(-)

So after my rambling you might want to try...

[Connections]
; all mods/components depend another
Edwin dependancies=D:EDWINROMANCE(-)&EDWINTOB(-)

; one mod/component need multiple others
Edwin Flirts=D:EDWINFLIRTS(-)&EDWINROMANCE(-)&EDWINTOB(-)

and cross your fingers and hope it works LOL. at least I pointed you in the right direction and you can do trial and error till you get it just right.

[dabus]

; one mod/component need multiple others
and do something like

Edwin Flirts=D:EDWINFLIRTS(-)&EDWINROMANCE(-)&EDWINTOB(-)

Changing the order would have no effect if you use & because it translates to install a and b and c together, which is the same as install c and a and b together. If you change it to

Edwin Flirts=D:EDWINFLIRTS(-):EDWINROMANCE(-)&EDWINTOB(-)

, it would have the desired effect. The other one was correct.