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2. The BiG_World_Setup_7.0.exe does download everything you need.

Jarno!  thank-you so much for the very informative post.  Your help was exactly what I needed and on your suggestions the corrections fixed all the problems.

I don't know why but somewhere in the documentation I got the impression that BG2 should be installed in the root of BG1.  I did everything you suggested and it went off without a hitch.  I have to say that installer is completely awesome and I came to BW at the right time =p  I've played a heavily modded Oblivion for a while and I can only wish we had something like that to make the very tricky Oblivion install that much better

Maybe someone could include your answer to my directory install question in a FAQ or the PDF because it's never answered anywhere.  It's probably become old hat now to all you guys who've worked with BW forever but to someone new it's not very obvious.


Thanks again

Hope someone can answer a couple completely newb questions.  I've decided to give BW a try after following for a long while but ran into a couple problems.


1.  What is the right way to install BG1 and BG2 for compatability with BW.  It's never explicitly pointed out anywhere I have seen yet.  Is this right (i don't use a program directory, these are all off the root of my games partition)?

x:\Baldur's Gate\
x:\Baldur's Gate\BGII - SoA
x:\Baldur's Gate\BGII - SoA\Big World Downloads

is that right?  because I ran into a problem with the installer and the classic 25movies.bif not found error but it was clearly in the cd5 directory.  I also tried to move it into the movies directory with no luck.  Happened under vista but I turned off UAC.


2.  My other question is does the installer download the installpack, fixpack, etc or just the mods?  I don't want to miss a step.

thanks folks.