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[The Imp]

What Operation System version do you have, and where did you install the game to ?

If it's the default directory, you should read the FAQ I wrote a long time ago... it still holds the truth, well except that it doesn't have the particulars about the Window 8 & 8.1, where if you install to the C drive, you have to install the game to C:\Users\<username>\ -subfolders, and not have a horrible Anti Virus system, like the Comodo...

[dabus]

no rightclick on batch.
Search cmd, do a rightclick on the found cmd.exe and run that one as admin.
Do a cd /D "BG2-path where things are in"
Then start the batch by typing in "BiG World Install.bat"
Or edit the BiG World Install.bat and insert a line with the cd /D "BG2-path where things are in" at the top.

[dabus]

Ok. Another try.

Right-click that 3KB batch-file and select edit.
Window pops up.

Copy/paste the bold line into the second line so your first three lines looks like this:

@echo off
cd /D "C:\BGII - SoA"
SET IF=IF EXIST

Save and try the "right-click as Admin"-action again.

Edited by dabus, 09 February 2015 - 03:33 PM.

[Himself]

If its as simple as it looks, the applications seem to have a problem running from somewhere OTHER than your users directory, so you should just install BG games + BWS into your win8 "users directory", and let the programs update and run from there as well.

Wrong-> C:\Games\BGII - SoA

 

Right-> Your user directory \Games\BGII - SoA

 

Sorry I can't be more specific... never used win 8 myself.

Edited by Himself, 10 February 2015 - 03:52 PM.

[dabus]

Well, if you get the install-log from BiG World Setup\Logs-folder, we could check that.
I remember 2 quirks the last time I checked a config-tool for Alien. So reinstalls might happen in certain conditions. Not saying its still in there, so the compressed log would be fine

[dabus]

I don't know if it's worth discussing or if it'll end with running in circles, but how about renaming / removing stuff from the bigger sections like standard/tactic?
The selection above has a whopping 1050 lines/components... For me, that would be too much.

Is there any consensus what would be a good, better, very good mod? I mean, I often see someone picking standard and the first thing another one says is: Oh my god, that's standard? No way...
I don't know if you need expert/the buggy selection of if you could just throw in something else. You could still select the buggy stuff by going through the stuff yourself if you want to.

Or do you think we should remove those categories and stick with groups that are in the BWS-menu like Adult/Fun/Unsuited and expand those?
Or expand the tree with the BG1 NPC, BG2 quests and other branches with new ones that go more into detail? Like slitting tweaks into something to alter micromanagement, money, npc management, magic, ...

Just asking around for a bit of input from the community, I don't have any clue about quality/content but that topic somehow bothers me.
Any volunteers that want to contribute if you'd like to have something changed to help out Alien and Quiet? I don't want to raise the workload for those guys.

[dabus]

I thought I wrote that question into the BWS-thread but got that mixed up.
And I didn't try to pick on you or read the thing because I don't know what would be in there by default currently and I just read a few things so I came up with the question.
Well, I read BP + Spellpack are buggy and likely cause issues with spiderwebs -- likely.
I also read the BP + statagems may cause a few enemies to stand around doing nothing.
People may had different experiences, but I guess that shrinking ones selection might help prevent errors (just because of maths / possibility) and a working "smaller" environment may be better to start from than a bigger that has a few issues.

[The Imp]

I tried an entirely new installation, and the problem still stands. The NPC voices are mixed up with each other. I culd just correct Imoen's and Xzar's ones with speaking to them ("your voice is strange" or sg. like this), and they re-established, but Montys, Jaheira's and Khalid's voices are resistant to this solution and still wrong. 

It should be something with BG1 NPC project, 'cause I tried a new BG2 game, and those NPC voices were correct.

Are you using a save from a previously made install or a completely restarted campaign ? Cause you can't ...

[The Imp]

--change-log the file called "imoen10.cre". And upload the resulting change-log folder as an archive file(.zip is usually the best) to an upload site like mediafire for example, so we can check the files and the exact mods altering the file. It could be as simple as wrongly written patch file that throws everything to the mud.

PS, the archive in the link is very old, so when you extract it, make sure to  NOT to overwrite the existing weidu.exe with the one in the archive, as doing that will downgrade the file and that will result into a bad report.

Edited by The Imp, 03 March 2015 - 02:12 PM.