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[dabus]

Huh? With old I mean really old when ini-files had OS-limits and used 16-bit. Maybe those limits are still in there somewhere in the newer systems.
Anyway, 32 KB was the limit in this case, it does not matter if you use Windows 2000 or a 10 preview since the limit is in the program itself.

[dragonian]

Ah thank you for explanation.

[dragonian]

Hm i downloaded latest version but cannot find improved archer kit or sandrah that i saw commited? Is there possibility to see those mods?

[dabus]

As long as the components are not listed in Select.txt, nothing will happen.
The BWS will even skip puttin the info into WeiDU-XX.ini or Mod.ini, so you won't find them in the BWP-folder. Use the FAQ to find out how to add them.
Or just install them manually after hitting the pause button. That's usually easier than adding the mod (it's not hard, but it will take a few minutes which is more then pressing a pause-button..

[dragonian]

@Alien from what i know Sandrah is for heavily modded normal BG game not for EE and as i read in "mod request template" forum Improved Archer should work with BG2:ToB am i right? 
Thanks for all the answers and your hard work guys
@Dabus i will probably just do what you said but I want to be sure first that Improved Archer is not EE only - BTW i don`t know if you(or anyone else) tried fixing the problem with dependencies i reported earlier but just to be sure in newest version they are still not working.

[Ser Elryk]

Would anybody mind explaining to me what the situation is with the Never Ending Journey and Tortured Souls mods? To my understanding, the mod author (Vlad) has some issues with the Enhanced Editions and refuses to port them. But are the current versions of these mods still being updated for inclusion with the BWP?

 

Also, what is the best method of doing a BWP install at present? i.e. the EET branch, or master branch, on bitbucket? Or the last official release of BWS (March 2nd, 2015)?

[The Imp]

Also, what is the best method of doing a BWP install at present?

You download the v15 .pdf file and read and do everything it says. So you won't be using the BWS at all, essentially. But manually, downloading and extracting the mods to a folder and then moving them over to the install folder and then run the BiG World Install.bat or what ever the .pdf says.
Yes, the .pdf has mentions of moving files and so forth during the installation, but you are using the .bat file so you don't need to do that of course.

That's what you asked, so I gave it to you. If you still wish to use the BWS, then you can take either of the two options you mentioned, but neither of them give you the option to install the official BWP v15 . YET. And it's likely to never be exactly that, but a tweaked version of that and the current BWS.

Edited by The Imp, 12 April 2015 - 10:19 PM.

[Hazey]

I've been trying the past couple of days to get a BWS install to work. Took me a while to realise the link on the front page is an old version and to use the newest one. Got the point where it has downloaded and extracted the mods I want and I close the BWS program to let it open BiG World Install.bat. The .bat runs for a couple of screens but then asks me to reboot and run it again in administrator mode. When I try that I just get a message saying something like "Cannot open bwp settings.txt cannot find file specified" and I have to close it. Using the GoG versions of BG and BG2 for what that's worth. Any help would be appreciated.

 

Edit: I got it to progress a little by not rebooting and just running the .bat. However, I don't seem to be able to just install the mods I selected in BiG World Setup.vbs. It gives me a few options of how I want to install mods. I tried the first one, preselections I think, and it came up with a few different options for selections people have put together (I guess). Just wondered if this is working as intended?

Edited by Hazey, 14 April 2015 - 06:42 AM.

[Hazey]

 (you know already which directory you should avoid?) 

 

Program Files and Users, that kind of thing?

 

Thanks for your help, I will take a look at those and see how it goes.

[The Imp]

 (you know already which directory you should avoid?) 

 ... and Users, that kind of thing?
 

Erhm. Nope.
Ironically on Windows 8(.1) you have to install the games you intent to modify into the C:\Users\<username>\ -subfolders as you have no access to the actual files in the other folder, effectively, as the changes you do are moved to the hidden part of the C:\Users\<username>\ -subfolders anyways( C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\ -rest of the game patch), as you can only write things in there.

Edited by The Imp, 14 April 2015 - 11:44 AM.

[Quiet]

Six's kitpack is installed after refinements. Bug or intended? It seems like most of the other kits gets installed before it since refinements copies all kits installed before it.

This is BWP installation order, according to which after the Six's Kitpack main component Refirements main component cannot be installed any more.

 

from what i know Sandrah is for heavily modded normal BG game not for EE and as i read in "mod request template" forum Improved Archer should work with BG2:ToB am i right?

Yes (and Improved Archer added to BGT selection).

 

i don`t know if you(or anyone else) tried fixing the problem with dependencies i reported earlier but just to be sure in newest version they are still not working

Temporary solution: disabled some (less important) dependencies, to others (more important) to work correctly.

 

I just have to ask. I read in the QuestPack readme that it's AI component (which I use) has an alternate version named "Extended Vocabulary" which makes enemies say more things overhead I guess. Why is this component not available in the current BWS?

Because there is no such component, despite that said readme.

[The Imp]

Does someone have a solution for this problem ? 

Well, do you have any of the NEJ mods installed ? It sounds like the SoA beginning cinematic get's interrupted, after you have done the Check the Bodies mods chore "quests". 

[Creepin]

Just got BWS to not launch anymore accidentally.

Here's what I did: I worked all the way to selected mods download, and during download I figured I need to check something in mod selection, so I clicked "pause", then waited for already started downloads to finish. After a couple of minutes I realised D0 Quest pack is probably stuck, so I hit "exit" button, and BWS closed for good. Afterwards each time I'm launching BWS, I get the following:

 

 

Luckily, it's fixed with a fresh archive of BWS, but still something is wrong here.

Edited by Creepin, 16 April 2015 - 12:01 PM.

[Creepin]

First of all, the praise: I've got my latest Big World in less than 2 evenings, as smooth as possible, and all the way while BWS did the job for me I kept remembering how I would have spend a whole week to do the same 7-8 years ago with much worse result, so I can't thank enough all of you guys involved for not letting BWS down and making this possible!

 

Now, the question: what governs where the saves will go, I mean, actual files? I've noticed, after scouring my whole HD, that my new BW install somewhy dumps the saves at my old install of 2014, located in a long forgotten and unused folder, and reads them from there as well, and I kind of prefer it not to

Edited by Creepin, 17 April 2015 - 10:34 AM.

[The Imp]

Now, the question: what governs where the saves will go, I mean, actual files?

What saves ?

See, if it's just the BG2's own saves, it's up to the Windows version to decide where to dump them so to speak, as it can save everything to the game folder or to your profile files. So it follows that your game should be installed to your profile files on Windows 8.1 .. unless you like the fact that it likes to hide everyone of your changes to a hidden folder in the profile files, and that you can't actually patch the games with official patches.

If it's the mod archives, they are "saved" to the BiG World Downloads folder you chose at the beginning of the setup.

The mods "save everything" to the install folder.

The BWS saves it's own files(mod selections in a form of .ini files etc) to the <BW Setup archive extraction folder>\BiG World Setup\Config\<game>\*.ini -files, and that of course depends on what game you currently intent to setup, and where you extracted the BWS to.

Edited by The Imp, 17 April 2015 - 11:22 AM.

[Creepin]

What saves ?
See, if it's just the BG2's own saves, it's up to the Windows version to decide where to dump them so to speak, as it can save everything to the game folder or to your profile files. So it follows that your game should be installed to your profile files on Windows 8.1 .. unless you like the fact that it likes to hide everyone of your changes to a hidden folder in the profile files, and that you can't actually patch the games with official patches.
If it's the mod archives, they are "saved" to the BiG World Downloads folder you chose at the beginning of the setup.
The mods "save everything" to the install folder.
The BWS saves it's own files(mod selections in a form of .ini files etc) to the <BW Setup archive extraction folder>\BiG World Setup\Config\<game>\*.ini -files, and that of course depends on what game you currently intent to setup, and where you extracted the BWS to.

Hey Jarno, thanks for the quick reply! I'm sorry about not mentioning my OS and issue details
I'm using Win7, the last Win that didn't dare to tell me where I want to keep my files
As for the issue details, it was the standard routine to play singleplayer with a party of 6: I've ran a game, fired a multiplayer, created my party of six, QSaved, quit the game to transfer this save from mpsave to save, the usual... only that there was no files or folders in mpsave. I still could have loaded this save from within the game, so it was kept somewhere... eventually I did found it in totally another, old instance of BWS installation (say, my current installation is D:/Games/BWS 2015, and the saves wind up at D:/Games/BWS 2014). This got me thinking, may be the instruction to save path is stored somewhere externally? I would have blamed registry, only that I use preinstalled versions of both BG1 & BG2, so the only thing that might have fiddled with registry is BWS itself, there's nothing else to suspect, unless I'm missing something. And even if it's so, it's weird that year ago BWS did put correct path for saves in the registry, and now it didn't.