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[The Potty 1]

Hi

I've just installed BG2 on linux using wine, and I've still got the rosy glow of using a piece of software that wildly exceeds my expectations. Wine is unbelievable.

I realise also that TobEx does some brilliant low-level hack to ... well of course it's too brilliant for me to understand, but I do realise it won't work on wine, which is probably already doing something similar.

The problem is that rogue rebalancing and/or SCS2 install TobEX without asking, and unfortunately weidu is completely fooled by wine into thinking it's running on windows.

The one ray of hope is that it's not listed in Weidu.log, so perhaps I can axe it without having to uninstall it in weidu, which will take several hours.

So, how do I uninstall TobeX? Well in the mean time I'm gonna try moving TobExLoader out of the BG2 dir and see what happens.

Cheers

[i30817]

why? It does work on wine.

What doesn't work on wine is installing mod stuff without waiting for ages, especially if you're doing a BGT. Installing in (maybe virtualized) windows sorts that out though.

And you ARE aware that running ToB in wine is quite tricky??

If you put this file above the dir that contains the game (named "BGII - SoA") and run the game by executing it, it should deal with the 'tricky' parts

Spoiler

#!/bin/bash
echo "This file to changes the baldur.ini path settings to point to the current dir"
echo "this is needed because bg2 is indifferent to relative paths"
echo "Run this at least once before running bg2 for the first time"
#For the launcher
GAME_PATH=$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")
cd "$GAME_PATH/BGII - SoA"
wine_path=$(winepath -w .)

#these keys make the launcher think it is installed. But the config program exists seperatly. Fuck it.
#wine reg add "HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\App Paths\\BG2Main.Exe" /t REG_SZ /d "$wine_path\BGMain.exe"
#wine reg add "HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\App Paths\\BG2Main.Exe" /v "Path" /t REG_SZ /d "$wine_path"
#wine reg add "HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\App Paths\\BG2Main.Exe" /v "Install" /t REG_SZ /d "$wine_path"
#wine reg add "HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\App Paths\\BG2Main.Exe" /v "BG25GUID" /t REG_SZ /d ""
#wine reg add "HKLM\\Software\\Microsoft\\Windows\\CurrentVersion\\App Paths\\BG2Main.Exe" /v "BG25_INSTALL" /t REG_SZ /d "true"


#bug with resolutions and movies on infinity engine - only works on virtual desktop, but without the resolution mod, it won't fil
#the screen, so i change and restore the resolution - if you use the resolution mod to set it to your habitual desktop
#resolution you don't need to change the normal resolution.

#set normal resolution to game resolution
CURRENT_RESOLUTION=$(xrandr | grep \* | cut -d' ' -f4)
xrandr -s 1024x768

#set a virtual destop for the game (only) on the game resolution
wine reg add "HKCU\\Software\\Wine\\Appdefaults\\BGMain.exe\\Explorer" /v "Desktop" /t REG_SZ /d "BGMain.exe"
wine reg add "HKCU\\Software\\Wine\\Explorer\\Desktops" /v "BGMain.exe" /t REG_SZ /d "1024x768"

#bug on baldur's gate with saves in wine
rm -f ./temp/default.tot
ln -s ./temp/default.tot ./temp/default.tot

#For the game to read the data files anywhere
#fuck this sed escaping shit, in windows / behaves as \
path=$(echo "$wine_path" | tr '\\\\' '\/')
sed -i "s|HD0:=.*|HD0:=${path}\r|g" baldur.ini
sed -i "s|CD1:=.*|CD1:=${path}/CD\r|g" baldur.ini
sed -i "s|CD2:=.*|CD2:=${path}/CD\r|g" baldur.ini
sed -i "s|CD3:=.*|CD3:=${path}/CD\r|g" baldur.ini
sed -i "s|CD4:=.*|CD4:=${path}/CD\r|g" baldur.ini
sed -i "s|CD5:=.*|CD5:=${path}/CD|g" baldur.ini
#run the game and restore the normal resolution after
wine BGMain.exe && xrandr -s $CURRENT_RESOLUTION

Most of that is just making the game not need to be 'installed' the config file modification especially. But this:
#bug on baldur's gate with saves in wine
rm -f ./temp/default.tot
ln -s ./temp/default.tot ./temp/default.tot

is important for some boneheaded reason for IE; otherwise the game hangs while saving on wine
the virtual desktop the same resolution as the game resolution - 1024x768 in this case - is also important to sort a mouse bug in the menu.
You'll also have to edit the lines:
sed -i "s|CD2:=.*|CD2:=${path}/CD\r|g" baldur.ini

bolded part to actually point to the right directory in your installation - i consolidated all the 1-5 CD directories when i figured out the duplicated files are exactly the same.

Edited by i30817, 27 May 2012 - 12:42 PM.