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.

Update: everything is going as it should, creating a seperate instance instead of a backup seemed to streamline the process and .batch is running. I'm surprised at how I found ways to make this more complicated than it needs to be . When I can actually play the game I will update my progress because everything might go boom, but I doubt it

Awesome words of encouragement, I think I'll try again today, just one more questions: are you using the GOG version of the game, and if so have you ever run across this problem? This is the exact issue I ran into last time but It's from an old thread and I didn't think newer versions of BWS would have this problem considering how popular the GOG versions are. 

I just attempted to install the tactics load-out from BWS and failed miserably. After the program attempted to download all of the mods it left quite a substantial amount behind, requiring I download them manually. Wouldn't have really been a problem but few of the mods that I downloaded manually and moved to my BWS downloads file seemed to work properly, a lot of the download links were also broken, would send me to a site which required a membership, or sent me to a site with no English. Even after I downloaded what I could I still got some of the same error messages I see some others here are getting; fine, but when it came to run the .batch nothing would happen just a blank cmd prompt. 

 

I've used the backup feature that comes with BWS but it doesn't seem to do a very good job :/. Every subsequent attempt would get messier and messier and restoring my backup would usually result in a failed message. I also noticed that the restore feature of BWS would remove all the unpackaged mods from the BG2 directory but left the packaged mods in the downloads folder alone - why then does the set-up need to re download all of them when I fail and I need to restart? The mods are already there and the same ones I dl'd manually are still there too and IT STILL ASKS ME TO DL THEM MANUALLY! What the heck?

 

I'm now at the point where I've completely deleted everything and am ready to do a clean install. I've tried following the guides but I find them frustrating because I do not follow along easily with the terminology. Much of what this guy says here isn't much help and I've spent hours trying to make sense of this. 

 

Honestly, the tactics mod probably is too much for me at this point so I'm wondering what compilations (if any) other people choose and what problems I can expect to come across. Also, how do I make a safe backup so I don't have to reinstall the game over and over? What is meant by, "create a new instance"?