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[Chasington]

I managed to install Tactics with BWS and after hours into the game I thought it was bug free until I came across web entangle that was cast by a wraith spider in a cave east of Beregost Temple. The spell persists until the end of time, slows down the frame-rate to a crawl, and if any of your characters are caught in it, the graphic stays on you forever, not allowing you to save or rest - EVER AGAIN! It's pretty much game-breaking and at this point so is the tactics install.

[Lollorian]

Is anyone still updating this?

 

This is the list of mods the BWS says I do not have (although the BWP Install.bat doesn't report any missing mods) so they're most probably updated now or mismatching archives (like the french packages for some SHS friendship mods)

 

Some of them are obvious updates (the BWP Installpack for instance, BWS wants v15.0.2 while the latest is v15.2.1)

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-Summary-
These selected mods are missing:

"Saga Baldur's Gate" Conversion
BiG World Project (BWP) (Translations and sounds)
BiG World Installpack
BiG World Fixpack
BiG World Textpack (Translations and sounds)
WeiDU (Tool)
Oversight
Northern Tales of the Sword Coast Natalin fix by dradiel
Secret of Bone Hill
Secret of Bone Hill Part II fix by dradiel
Drizzt Saga
BG1 Mini Quests and Encounters
The Stone of Askavar
Ascalons Questpack
Nameless Melody Inn
Thalantyr Item Upgrade
TeamBG Weapon Pack for BG1
BG1 NPC Project
Indira NPC
Xan's Friendship Path for BG1
Coran's BG Extended Friendship Talks
Ascalons Breagar
Gavin NPC
Askaria Quest Mod (inklusive ChaosKnight kit)
White NPC
BG1 Unfinished Business
Rukrakia NPC
Fishing for Trouble
Super Firkraag
Sarevok related tweaks
Rolles
Sorcerer's Place Item Collection
Houyi
IWD Item Pack
TeamBG Armor Pack for BG2
Amber NPC (SoA)
Ajantis NPC for BG2
Ajantis Portrait Pack
Tashia Remix NPC
Kindrek NPC
Kitanya NPC (SoA)
Silver Star NPC
Tiax NPC
Nikita Redux
Xulaye NPC
Haldamir NPC
Varshoon an Illithid NPC
Arath NPC
Aran Whitehand NPC
Willie Bruce NPC
IEP Extended Banters
Viconia Friendship
Mazzy Friendship
Yoshimo Friendship
Jan's Extended Quest
Imoen Friendship
Sarevok Friendship
BG1 NPCs for SoA
Skooter the NPC
Lucy the Wyvern
Ulrien Of Cormyr: SagaMaster
Almateria's Restoration Project
Kit Revisions
Big Picture
Nathaniel NPC
Romantic Encounters
Faren NPC
Grimuars
Homeward Bound
Throne of Bhaal Revisited (Beta)
Alternatives
Crossmod Banter Pack
Spell Revisions
Mal des Vampirismus
Lol's Kit-Guide
Afaaq, the Djinni Companion
Vecna v23 - Text Overhaul
Sandrah NPC
Return to Faerun
La'Viconia
Rogue Rebalancing
Daulmakan’s Item Pack for Baldur's Gate II
Scales of Balance
NPC Strongholds
BuTcHeRy
Relationship
BP Series Party AI
Difficulty and Tweak mod
Item Randomiser
Psionics Unleashed
BG1 NPCs at Beginning
BG1 NPC Portrait Pack
PaintBG
One Pixel Productions High Quality Music for BGT (Additional mods)
Multi-Install Tool

 

Also, does the BWS autoupdate its linklist like it used to?

[The Imp]

Is anyone still updating this?

The BWS, yes, Quiet, Silent, and AL|EN are...

Some of them are obvious updates (the BWP Installpack for instance, BWS wants v15.0.2 while the latest is v15.2.1)

Well, the thing is, the BWP install.bat has changed a quite a bit from the old days, and the BWS used the old style one, while now it's using its own writing install program, meaning that it doesn't actually use the .bat file at all. So why download it at all... ... but I believe that's the outdated BWS(bws_20150302.exe) that you are using there. The up to date should try to get the v15.2.1, no I haven't tried to make a BWS install for months, so I can't actually say that with a clear definition.

And I don't think the BWS has the autoupdate feature at all, meaning that you have to get the latest version by retrieving it from here, but do not download the latest official file bws_20150302.exe, it's badly outdated by 3 months, but you need to:

Hi Agnes, simply click on Branches -> master -> zip.

Aka right here:

Edited by The Imp, 05 July 2015 - 11:51 AM.

[Lollorian]

Ok so the installpack is redundant for the BWS

I intended to use the BWS like some kind of mod checking tool so I know for certain I'm creating fixpack patches for the latest versions... And because the BWS is probably the source of mods for the majority of BWP players (especially since the main BWP linkliste is outdated as hell), it becomes imperative that I sync with it

[dreamer2007]

Quick question. For the install, should I use the Install.bat? Or go with the BWS installer? I always used the install bat, and used the BWS only for the mod downloads, but since its so well mantained, I was curious if its safe using for the install as well.

Edited by dreamer2007, 06 July 2015 - 05:02 AM.

[Bill Bisco]

Yes, use BWS to download and install mods! Quite safe! Easier! BWS Doesn't require you to unpack mods yourself and you can establish your own location for your BG2 mods.

[dreamer2007]

Yes, use BWS to download and install mods! Quite safe! Easier! BWS Doesn't require you to unpack mods yourself and you can establish your own location for your BG2 mods.

Okay, thank you again, Bill Bisco!

[dabus]

@Lol: BWS still needs the smoothpack, so it fetches the installpack that "ships with it", Other than that and being some kind of basis for the install-order, the installpack has indeed no further part in the install - if you did not select to go with the batch-install.

[Lollorian]

Oh now it makes sense Thanks dabus!

I'll make a note of all the mismatching links this weekend so anyone who wants to update the BWS can do that

[dragonian]

Sadly there was no update for over a month now

[Bill Bisco]

Oh now it makes sense Thanks dabus!
I'll make a note of all the mismatching links this weekend so anyone who wants to update the BWS can do that

Thank you Lol.

[Nightfarer]

 I also wish I knew which mod was responsible for spawning these seemingly unfinished enemies called, 'Orc A' into my game (it's probably one of the big BG1 mods). They appear all over the initial areas, have a very fast speed that looks choppy/glitchy, and are immune to level one weapons. Basically, the wreck you for the first little while and if you kill them you get 5xp and a 100% chance to drop a single vocalize potion. Like I said, I don't think they are finished.

 

The mod is Tomoyo and the Underground City. Although the animation does not look like an Orc, the translation is correct; they are Orcs.

 

The mod has also more content than that.

Edited by Nightfarer, 09 July 2015 - 02:24 AM.

[dragonian]

http://www.shsforums...llation-issues/

Check this topic and see if it helps

[psychlopes]

now that the stone of Askavar has been updated to version 1.9, do we still need to copy worldmap.wmp file from the big world folder to the override folder???

Edited by psychlopes, 15 July 2015 - 01:29 PM.

[Valikdu]

SCStratagems V30 is problematic.

 

ERROR: illegal 2-byte read from offset 7826 of 7826-byte file SPWI317.SPL
ERROR: [SPWI317.SPL] -> [override] Patching Failed (COPY) (Failure("SPWI317.SPL: read out of bounds"))
ERROR: [stratagems/ds/cddetect.2da] -> [override] Patching Failed (COPY) (Failure("SPWI317.SPL: read out of bounds"))
ERROR: Failure("SPWI317.SPL: read out of bounds")
Initialise mod (all other components require this) (Sword Coast Stratagems) was not installed due to errors.

 

 

Tried to install BWS two times, it happened each time.

 

Tried to skip over all the SCS bits this time, after a lot of skips the installer had just crashed.

 

...actually, I can't install Stratagems V30 even as a standalone, from its own installer.

 

EDIT: I think this is the solution. I tried searching for that particular .SPL file mentioned, found this:

 

Yes, I confirm, this error occurs if before IWDification and SCS is already installed SpellPack's component #2317 'Ghost Armor' in combination with 1pp's component #202 'Spell tweaks'. Individually, they do not cause this error. The solution is to either not installing one of these components, or moving installation 1pp's 'Spell tweaks' after IWDification and SCS, as it was in the previous version of the BWP.

Edited by Valikdu, 19 July 2015 - 02:29 PM.

[dragonian]

Does anyone know if Alien and/or Quiet left for good? They did not write anything or update BWS for over a month
If they left is there anyone who could take over their titatnic work?

[dreamer2007]

Does anyone know if Alien and/or Quiet left for good? They did not write anything or update BWS for over a month
If they left is there anyone who could take over their titatnic work?

It doesn't look good. It seems like they didn't visit the site since June

[dragonian]

Guys i have a problem i`ve let BWS change code-page of my PC and it did not rewert back. Also by the love of god i cannot change it back (tried what The Imp suggested in his FAQ). Any ideas? I know the number of code page i need to revert to but don`t know how