amendara

Hi everyone,

First of all, great admiration and thanks for all your modding community that has made over the past 10 years Baldur's Gate about the best gaming experience available.

About a year ago I tried my first BWP installation.  I used the BWS "tactics" installation and had a great game through BGT (with just a few minor bugs fixed with NI).  Unfortunately, after an epic quest I ran into a game stopped after exiting the underdark.  After the Elhan conversation my game would always crash.  I spent a few days trying to figure it out but finally gave up in frustration.

Now that the bitter taste of that crash is gone, Im back and want to try another game, hopefully to the end this time.  In the BWS I saw I could not install BG1, so to save time I put a "-" and was just going to start again from BG2.

During the tacticts installation (with latest BWS) I got 7 or 8 errors of "2 byte read short" on various spells like spwi705 (khel warding whip).  I continued copying backups of all these spells from the SCS folder into the ovveride, after which the installation would continue.  Everything else seemed fine and game started normally (except a lot of enemies have funny white swirling "clouds" around them animation, and Imoen too.

Going to level 2 irenicus dungeon after long RTT cutscene and Yoshimo joins me, the game crashes in a very similar way my old game crashes after Elhan.

Here is err file:

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ASSERTION FAILED!
File: ChVideo.cpp
Line: 7166

Exp: !((dwFlags & CVIDCELL_FXPREP_COPYFROMBACK) && (dwFlags & CVIDCELL_FXPREP_CLEARFILL))

Msg: no msg.
Run Debugger?

---------------------Start Logging Session---------------------



---------------------Start Logging Session---------------------



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---------------------Start Logging Session---------------------

ASSERTION FAILED!
File: CItem.cpp
Line: 1573

Exp: pRes->Demand()

Msg: no msg.
Run Debugger?

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Any ideas what might be causing this, and should I do a full reinstall? I dont want to get half way to Mellisan only to have my game end again (

Thanks