Kaz

Mm, I did try to continue the install, but it kept on crashing at the same point, so I just deleted and restarted, so the old debug file is probably lost. I deselected 3070 and 3080, and it's currently on the scsII part of the install. Just saying that, the scsII part is going smoothly, and I think it's past the part where it was buggering up before. Sorry bout not storing the debug, probably would have helped :/
It might happen again, so I'm keeping an eye on it. Just on the removing party's items in spellhold component, but I can't remember if that's before or after the buggered bit.

EDIT~It's doing BG2 tweaks now. Guess I dodged that bullet.

Forgot to go to the debug

I'll restart the install with the same selection etc and it should happen again (it got to the same point in the previous install with the crash and everything). In the meantime, it's occuring around scsII, stating #3000, which upon checking wasn't selected, then proceeding to skip 3070 and 3080 before closing again.

Well, another 4 hours down the drain.

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So when I start the install, this happens for a while. Sensing this may be an issue?

I am not familiar with what the latest BWFixpack does, but I suspect either the BWS did not download all the Infinity Animations content or its extraction routine doesn't work properly.

Your system language is English or another Western European one, right? That is the only real issue, and that has a workaround in the readme. But rather than letting BWS handle IA, I would download all content and install it manually as per the readme. So exclude that and Generalised Biffing from the BWS. The latter you always want to install manually anyway, because you want to make absolutely certain you're happy with your install and everything installed ok before putting that on.

Ah, the language for non-unicode programs was set to Japanese. Changed it to English UK now.
I'm just going to briefly retry the normal install with this change, since the screenshot I took happens pretty soon into the installation if it occurs.
Cheers for the help.

So when I start the install, this happens for a while. Sensing this may be an issue?

Regrettably, after the install finished, I tried to run baldur.exe but it either CTD's instantly or the process just starts and quits without the window opening.

Don't know, the BGMain.exe actually start the game, it should give you some kind of error report...

Nope, tried running that but there's no error report. Process starts, stops, that's all. I might try reinstalling I guess, unless anyone knows what's going on.

You should have 'Logging On=1' in your baldur.ini file, which *usually* produces something in the baldur.err file. But not always.

Your install, the way it is, probably *will* crash, but only after creating/importing a character and loading the starting area for BG2 (it would probably still work for BG1... for a while at least). This is because somehow BWS allowed you to install optional components of Infinity Animations without installing the main component (a bit of a WeiDU bug reported here). And I suspect the main component failed because you didn't have all the requirements (the setup-infinityanimations.DEBUG file should tell you).

But it sounds like you have other major issues if BGMain.exe doesn't even bring up the menu screen, let alone character creation etc. If you didn't install biffing, it could take a while to launch (several minutes sometimes) but it looks like you installed that too (which may also make uninstalling/reinstalling something like Infinity Animations difficult).

I went through some stuff but eventually gave up and have decided to do a new install, whilst removing a few mods. Is there any particular thing I can change to avoid the probable crashing you speak of? And how can I make sure I have all the requirements? I'm a bit of an idiot so I managed to avoid checking the error files you mentioned before deleting the entire folder :/