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[marxismftw]

After having spent the better part of 14 hours downloading and attempting to install the BWP onto my GoG versions of BG1 and BG2, and encountering and figuring out the solution to an extensive list of problems, I've finally reached the point where I'm completely stumped. I apologize in advance if this problem has been dealt with on these boards in the past, however, I could find no similar occurrence in my searches.

I'm using windows 7 and the GoG versions of BG1 and 2
I have installed them to a BWP folder at the root of the C drive
Turned off UAC
Added a BG2-ToBPatchReadMe.txt file to the "c:\bwp\BGII - SOA" folder
Moved the 25movies file from "c:\bwp\BGII - SOA\data\movies" to "c:\bwp\BGII - SOA\CD5\movies"
Edited the .ini files to ensure the directories match
Run BG1, SoA, and ToB and saved games
My current game versions are up-to-date and I have not attempted to patch
I have downloaded the mods for the Standard version of BWP with the help of the Big World Setup, and found the files manually that failed to download
I have extracted these files into a separate directory as a backup, then copied the extractions to my BGII - SOA folder

Running the batch file as an administrator, the install cannot get past the "BG1-Patch-Check." Finding no solution online, I attempted to edit the batch file to skip the bg1 patch check, which was successful until about 5 seconds into the installation of files, after which the batch file crashed.

I'm really not sure where I went wrong here. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

[Anduin Shadow Mantle]

Your problem is BiG World Setup is out of date and downloads out of date files... It is not going to be updated soon.

Check out the links here

Still stuck, prolly post there so all in one place.

[mr fantastic]

Patch the game anyway, it should work, I had exactly the same problem.

And remember to use BWS only for downloading and extracting, if use it at all.

[dabus]

Running the batch file as an administrator, the install cannot get past the "BG1-Patch-Check." Finding no solution online, I attempted to edit the batch file to skip the bg1 patch check, which was successful until about 5 seconds into the installation of files, after which the batch file crashed.

It's not related to the BWS but to the BiG World Installpack.
The files from SHS are php-links so those (including the BiG-files) are not outdated.

What did you do to skip the check, where's the line that makes it "crash"?
As always, have a look at the BiG World Debug.txt. Check if you can find out something there.
If not, remove @echo off at the top of the batch and run it again so it shows the batch-lines that are executed, which might lead to solve the issue.

[marxismftw]

I had deleted this piece from the batch file -

:: BG1 patch check
%TXT%@8
%.%
%.%
%.%
:: missing BG1 patch 5512
%NGOG% %IFN% %BG1%readme_patch.txt" %TXT%@12
%.%
%.%
:: missing BG1 text patch
%IFF% %IFN% %BG1%SETUP-CORRECFR.DEBUG" %TXT%@13
%IFG% %IFN% %BG1%SETUP-BG1TP.DEBUG" %TXT%@13
%.%
%.%
%.%
%.%
%.%
%.%
%.%
%.%
%.%
pause
GOTO :TP1CHECK

Originally it would crash after the following was executed -

%IF% "%BWFP%" xcopy /Y /S /E ".\%BWFP%\_resfixer_v1\*.*" "." | %M%
%IF% "%BWFP%" xcopy /Y /S /E ".\%BWFP%\_Innate_Fix\*.*" "." | %M%
%IF% "%BWFP%" xcopy /Y /S /E ".\%BWFP%\_AuroraPatch\*.*" "." | %M%
%IF% "%BWFP%" xcopy /Y /S /E ".\%BWFP%\_BG2GavinHotfix\*.*" "." | %M%
%IF% "%BWFP%" xcopy /Y /S /E ".\%BWFP%\_Gavin_Kick-out_Hotfix\*.*" "." | %M%

I tried updating and then eventually deleting possibly offending modes, I tried adjusting the batch file to not look for mods mentioned immediately before and after the above section, but no success.

I found a pre-downloaded collection of standard BWP mods from another source and using that folder as a base collection of mods, I re-installed BG1 and BGII in the same process as detailed in the first post. Once again, I manually found and extracted missing mods. Right now the batch file is installing and it has long passed the point where I was crashing. Fingers crossed.

Having the correct versions of the mods appear to have fixed the crashing issue. I was never able to find a way to fix the patch check without editing the batch file.

Edited by marxismftw, 05 December 2011 - 10:26 PM.

[marxismftw]

double post

Edited by marxismftw, 05 December 2011 - 10:26 PM.