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[Touche]

Hi all!

I've recently discovered this great megamod pack as I was planning to return to one of my favorite games - BG1. It's really a godsend! I have a couple of problems and questions regarding the installation (Standard option):

1) I'm using The BiG World Setup from HERE, but I'm confused about these:

BiG World Fixpack v9.4
BiG World Installpack v9.4
BiG World Trimpack v9.1.1

Do I need them or does the BiG World Setup take care of it all?


2) The setup can't download the following files:

Ajantis BG1 Expansion v2.1: The Mod itself (AjantisBG1_v2_1.zip)
Adalon's Blood - Silberdrachenblut v9: The Mod itself (AdalonsBlood-v9.zip)
Nikitalleria NPC (Nikita) v1.01: The Mod itself (Nikita101.rar)
Shed's Mods - A Forgotten Wars Mod v1.01: The Mod itself (Shed\'s Mods 1.03.exe)

I've tried to find them online myself, but with no success. There were more missing (BDash168.exe, Bonehill_v245.rar, RTTItemPack_v1.2.zip...) but I've managed to find those.

www.rosenranken.org is the only site that stores some of them, but it seems it's not working anymore.

Nikita NPC was taken down, as I've found on the mod's homepage, due to bugs. Should I just skip that one?

I've managed to find "Shed\'s Mods 1.03.exe", but mine is named "Shed's Mods 1.03.exe" as \ is not allowed in filenames. I've placed it in downloads directory, but it doesn't recognize it.


3) In the beginning the setup displayed this warning:

These selected downloads are defect:

Baldurdash (BD-WeiDU) v1.6.8
Secret of Bone Hill (Dialog-Patch) v2.45
Ajantis BG1 Expansion v2.1
Adalon's Blood - Silberdrachenblut v9
Return to Trademeet Item Pack (RTT Item Pack) v1.2
Ajantis NPC for SoA (Beta) v0.2.20
Nikitalleria NPC (Nikita) v1.01
Au service d'Oghma v1.5
BGT NPC Portraits v1.8

Some of them I had to download manually later in the setup process.
What does it mean?


4) The manual states (pg.14):

8. By the BioWare BG1 Patch some BG1 files are deleted. In order to repair this again, you need to download after patching the “BG1 MISSING files” and unpack them in the BG1 main directory.

Will BiG World Setup do it automatically or do I have to do this step?


5) Do I start the game with BGMain.exe or TobExLoader.exe or something else?


Thank You!

Edited by Touche, 21 September 2010 - 04:52 PM.

[Touche]

Anyone?

[Jarno Mikkola]

Anyone?

Not really the right person to answer these questions, but I'll take the two last...

4) The manual states (pg.14):

8. By the BioWare BG1 Patch some BG1 files are deleted. In order to repair this again, you need to download after patching the ?BG1 MISSING files? and unpack them in the BG1 main directory.

Will BiG World Setup do it automatically or do I have to do this step?

From here:

BG1 Missing Files v2 [DEU/ENG/SPA]
Homepage: http://kerzenburg.ba...loads.php?id=10
Add DEU: http://kerzenburg.ba....adlatest&id=10
Add ENG: http://www.shsforums....ttach_id=15886
Add SPA: http://www.shsforums....ownload&id=816
DEU: Nach Benutzung des BG1 Patches, entpackt das Paket ins BG1 Verzeichnis, um Dateien wieder herzustellen.
ENG: After you executed the BG1 Patch, extract this package into the BG1 folder to restore the files.

So you should install that yourself to the BG1 directory. But you aren't really missing a whole a lot.

5) Do I start the game with BGMain.exe or TobExLoader.exe or something else?

The TobExLoader.exe, if you installed the mod that makes it, and the BGMain.exe(in the BG2 directory) if you didn't .

[dabus]

1) Need them, BWS should get them.
2) a) + b) Yes, the site seems to be down.
c) is taken down.
d) Get the file and edit BiG World Setup\Config\Mod.ini. Search for Save=Shed and adjust the save-entry to fit the name. Resume the install and the BWS should find the file then.
3) The BWS checks if it will be able to download the mods. It was not able to get those and as you recognized, you will have to get the files yourself. That's all about the message.
4) + 5) have been answered.

[Touche]

Thank you very much guys!

Do you, by any chance, have one of these missing mods to upload somewhere?

Ajantis BG1 Expansion v2.1: The Mod itself (AjantisBG1_v2_1.zip)
Adalon's Blood - Silberdrachenblut v9: The Mod itself (AdalonsBlood-v9.zip)

[Touche]

d) Get the file and edit BiG World Setup\Config\Mod.ini. Search for Save=Shed and adjust the save-entry to fit the name. Resume the install and the BWS should find the file then.

This didn't work because the setup kept updating mod.ini with the wrong filename, but I've managed to solve it by temporary marking it as Read Only.


So, I've got a new problem now. Afer unpacking, I have these errors in the log:

Processing archive: D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\WeiDU-Windows-217.zip
Error: Can not open file as archive

D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup>The following command failed to extract an archive:
"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup\Tools\7z.exe" x "D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\WeiDU-Windows-217.zip" -aoa -o"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA"
This may be caused by several reasons.


Processing archive: D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\MarketPrices.zip
Error: Can not open file as archive

D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup>The following command failed to extract an archive:
"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup\Tools\7z.exe" x "D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\MarketPrices.zip" -aoa -o"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA"
This may be caused by several reasons.


Processing archive: D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\Enhanced_BG2_v1.1.zip
Error: Can not open file as archive

D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup>The following command failed to extract an archive:
"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup\Tools\7z.exe" x "D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\Enhanced_BG2_v1.1.zip" -aoa -o"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA"
This may be caused by several reasons.


Processing archive: D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\VolcanicArmouryV1.0.rar
Error: Can not open file as archive

D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup>The following command failed to extract an archive:
"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup\Tools\7z.exe" x "D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\VolcanicArmouryV1.0.rar" -aoa -o"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA"
This may be caused by several reasons.


Processing archive: D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\Mystigan1.4.zip
Error: Can not open file as archive

D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup>The following command failed to extract an archive:
"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup\Tools\7z.exe" x "D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\Mystigan1.4.zip" -aoa -o"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA"
This may be caused by several reasons.


Processing archive: D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\wikaede_v34.rar
Error: Can not open file as archive

D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup>The following command failed to extract an archive:
"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup\Tools\7z.exe" x "D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\wikaede_v34.rar" -aoa -o"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA"
This may be caused by several reasons.


Processing archive: D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\absolestia.zip
Error: Can not open file as archive

D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup>The following command failed to extract an archive:
"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup\Tools\7z.exe" x "D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\absolestia.zip" -aoa -o"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA"
This may be caused by several reasons.


Processing archive: D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\Kariv1-3b.rar
Error: Can not open file as archive

D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup>The following command failed to extract an archive:
"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup\Tools\7z.exe" x "D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\Kariv1-3b.rar" -aoa -o"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA"
This may be caused by several reasons.


Processing archive: D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\scs-v14.exe
Error: Can not open file as archive

D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup>The following command failed to extract an archive:
"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup\Tools\7z.exe" x "D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\scs-v14.exe" -aoa -o"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA"
This may be caused by several reasons.


Processing archive: D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\PoF_Kitpack_V5.rar
Error: Can not open file as archive

D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup>The following command failed to extract an archive:
"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup\Tools\7z.exe" x "D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\PoF_Kitpack_V5.rar" -aoa -o"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA"
This may be caused by several reasons.


Processing archive: D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\scsII-v13.exe
Error: Can not open file as archive

D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup>The following command failed to extract an archive:
"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup\Tools\7z.exe" x "D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\scsII-v13.exe" -aoa -o"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA"
This may be caused by several reasons.

Setup is now at the stage right afer unpacking with the following message:

Starting the "silent" extraction of the NSIS-packages.

There will be message-boxes that ask you if you want to install several mods. They should disappear directly.
If that's not happening, please press Enter or click "Yes" to continue.
...

I'm not sure if I should proceed as several mods failed to extract, especially WeiDU-Windows. Should I just extract those mods manually and proceed with the install or...? Could that be a problem since it might be out of some required order?

[Jarno Mikkola]

I'm not sure if I should proceed as several mods failed to extract, especially WeiDU-Windows.

Processing archive: D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\WeiDU-Windows-217.zip

Error: Can not open file as archive

Yeah, but if you look what it just wrote, that's the ancient version of WeiDU-Windows-xxx.zip, the new one is -220.zip at least, get the new one, update the mods...

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 22 September 2010 - 08:41 PM.

[Touche]

Checking WeiDU (Tool) v217 ...
Extracting WeiDU-Windows-220.zip (0.1 MB)

"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Setup\Tools\7z.exe" x "D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\WeiDU-Windows-220.zip" -aoa -o"D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA"

7-Zip 4.65  Copyright © 1999-2009 Igor Pavlov  2009-02-03

Processing archive: D:\Games\Baldurs Gate\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\WeiDU-Windows-220.zip

Error: Can not open file as archive

I edited mod.ini and made it read only so it accepted the new version, but I get the same error.

And I've checked several others that were reported in the error log and many of them are the latest version. By the looks of WeiDU-Windows, even getting the latest one doesn't help.

What now?

Edited by Touche, 23 September 2010 - 04:23 AM.

[dabus]

These messages are kind of irritating.
If you already have the downloads in place, extract the BiG World Installpack v9.4.1.7z and use the batch from the "additional tools"-subfolder to extract all files.

[Touche]

Do you mean that my messages are irritating or the installer's? If it's the former, I'm sorry, but the setup instructions are really confusing as some things are explained differently in different posts and/or txt files and the errors I'm getting and how to correct them aren't mentioned in them. I'm doing my best to make sense of it all and when to use what and where and what gets done for me and what I have to do manually.

So, if I'm understanding all the different instructions from txt files correctly, I am to completely disregard the "BiG World Setup" and use the following method:

1. Extract BiG World Installpack v9.4.1, BiG World Fixpack v9.4.1 and BiG_World_Trimpack_v9.1.1 into "\BGII - SoA\" directory
2. Unpack all the mods with instructions from additional tools as you mentioned
3. start "BiG World Install.bat" that came from "BiG World Installpack v9.4.1"
4. it will use BiG World Fixpack v9.4.1 and BiG_World_Trimpack_v9.1.1 automatically so I don't have to use them myself before starting "BiG World Install.bat"
5. installation complete

Is this correct?

Now, here's my next dillema: "Additional Tools read me.txt" says that the mods will be extracted to "\BGII - SoA\BiG World Downloads\unpacked mods" and that I specifically HAVE to unpack everything to that folder. But the "BiG World setup" I was trying to use extracted all the mods in the "\BGII - SoA\" directory, and readme instructions from "BiG World Installpack v9.4.1" also expect the mods to be in the game root directory. That is contradictory.

[dabus]

Well, you'll have all mods archives in some folder.
Run the Unpacking from that directory.
Then move the mods data from the new subfolder unpacked mods into the BG2-directory and run the Install.bat