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[aqrit]

Some fixes were pushed to the Widescreen Mod git repository as recently as today.
Grab the lastest snapshot from:
https://github.com/v...hive/master.zip

Hopefully,
The crash when entering small areas in PST
and the "Art Gallery like" walking around crash
have both been solved.

[hook71]

Thanks for researching/fixing this issue aqrit! Have been holding off on replaying for a long time because of this problem...

[Kynaeus]

I myself am experiencing problems when exiting the Siege Tower and when attempting to enter the Godsmen Foundry's Tower during the investigation
 
 
This seems to be a common problem with people playing physical copies of the game, with the two areas in question consistently causing crashes because the game cannot uncompress the .CBF files properly.
 
The two problem files are AR0511.cbf (Sandoz) which crashes to desktop, and when leaving AR0501.cbf (Siege tower) which gives this error: http://www.imagebana...Clipboard01.png
 
Supposedly you can bypass this issue by putting the uncompressed files, received from someone with the 4CD version or a full install, and placing them in the Cache folder but I have search far and found nothing. 
 
Anyone else found a fix for this?


Edit: Bleh, I am a serious moron. This is spparently fixed in the GOG version and I had forgotten the one I've had installed for years and never played was not the GOG one... a gentleman from the GameFAQ's forums provided the two files I needed though! Woot!

http://www.yourfilel....php?fid=835740

Edited by Kynaeus, 12 April 2013 - 04:39 PM.

[aqrit]

copy the widescreen folder to your Toment folder
(not the widescreen-master folder)
so to pick a file at random...
widescreen-master.zip\widescreen-master\widescreen\core.tpa
would become something like:
C:\games\torment\widescreen\core.tpa.

get a copy of weidu.exe http://www.weidu.org/main.html#weidu
place weidu.exe in your torment folder
rename weidu.exe to setup-widescreen.exe
run setup-widescreen.exe

There seems to be problems moving saved games from old version of the widescreen to the new...
Make sure you have a backup of any saved games

[ponythulu]

I'm also stuck in the midwifes hut in PsT (where stuck means I can't leave without the game crashing).
I'm using the GoG version and the 'recommended changes' mods.
Reading in the gog-forum about this, it seems to be a problem with the widescreen mod 3.05 I'm using at the resolution of 1920x1080. I'm not that far in the game yet (about tot head to the alley where annah found the nameless one) so it wouldn't be that much of a waste of time to start a new game but I'd like to avoid this if possible.

If I understood this right, up- or downgrading to another version of widescreen mod would cause problems with the current savegames?

Using the 2.20 version of the widescreen mod would cause absolutely no problems at all if I installed the game and started from the scratch? If not, I would leave out the widescreen mod.
Is there another solution to fix this problem?

 

 

Also, I hope that this 3.05 problem doesn't appear in Baldur's Gate 1 / 2 when using the widescreen 3.05?

 

 

 

 

e1: nevermind, the fix on page 11 seems to have fixed the problem for the moment. I'm able to enter and leave the hut again.

Edited by ponythulu, 09 July 2013 - 03:11 AM.

[ponythulu]

Also, I hope that this 3.05 problem doesn't appear in Baldur's Gate 1 / 2 when using the widescreen 3.05?

AFAIK: it would occur with the BG1 engine... most people use the BG2 engine to play BG1 though

That's good to know, for I'm using the BG2 engine (the gog.com version with the total conversion into one game. Although I have the complete edition when the game got first published and the complete Swordcoast/NWN pack).

[phillon]

Just want to say a major thank you to Aqrit & Scientt for their work on the v3.06b of the widescreen mod; pity that thebigg hasn't updated his mod with this fix yet. Thank you for your efforts Aqrit and Scientt!

[Andarius]

So I've been playing PST for quite some time now and as of today I can't get in Finam's house anymore. Everytime I try to enter the game just stops working.

I've upgraded from xp to 7 recently and reinstalled the game and mods (Bigg's Widescreen mod, Ghostdog's incredible UI mod, Ultimate Fixpack and Unfinished Business. http://www.gog.com/n...ment_mods_guide) with only one exception, picked 80% larger fonts instead of 40% as it used to be. I do remember going into Finam's house before installing 7 and the 80% fonts but I reinstalled the game with the 40% and updated saved games as well and it doesn't seem to fix the problem.

 

PS: I'm using 1280x1024 as resolution.

Edited by Andarius, 20 October 2013 - 05:02 AM.

[Blackbeared]

Hey everyone. I'm not 100% sure if people still look in this thread, but I'm having the same problem with the crashing. At the moment I'm stuck in the  Art and Curio Galleria. Mainly the red area that was pointed out in a image.

 

Now I've seen the fix but I'm a complete noob when it comes to HxD or hex editors in general so I'm kinda 'scared' to edit it. Does someone have a quick step by step tutorial perhaps or want the .exe file to fix this. It's in no hurry I have patience, but it is annoying that it crashes .

 

Or is there an update / downloadable fix that I've overlooked?

 

Thanks! Blackbeared

[cj_nf]

I'll leave this report just in case.

 

2CD version.

A crash when trying to get back to Mortuary. I didn't try it "illegally" , so this is at least about normal dialogue way via one of the Dustmen guards.

Solution - start a new game, then load current game back. I thought this has to be about safe bif unpacking to cache from cbif (still leaves the question why the game handles it normally in the beginning and crashes when trying to do the same while I attempt to get back).

But this doesn't make much sense - starting location is AR0202.bif (2nd floor), while teleport location is AR0201.bif (1st floor). I checked - it doesn't unpack AR0201.bif too "just in case". Also there were no crashes at all while I were playing freshly started game - meaning safe needed transitions between all Mortuary floors and both ways out of the Mortuary too.

I do not know if this crash and/or "solution" happens/works all the time. For me it did as I recall.

 

My install is Fixpack -> UB -> Tweaks, running on WinXPsp3, if this matters at all.

 

Anyway, this is not critical as you see, I'm really just curious "What the hell happened?"©TNO in Tomb.