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[Falagar]

This is what I have, and I'm going to use BGT/BWP:

 

Ascension (I heard this was a special case)

Almateria's Restoration Project

BG1 and BG2 Unfinished Business

BG2-fixpack (I understand this is important)

BG1 mini-quests and encounters

Banter Pack V14

BG1 npc project, and music

Dark Horizons (BWP failed to install this for some reason)

Drizzt Saga

Fading Promises

Freedom's Reign, and Virtue

I Shall Never Forget

IEP Banters

Inner Shade

Jarl's BGT Tweak Pack

Lure of the Sirine's Call

BGT NPC Portraits

Shards of Ice

Slandor

tales of the deep gardens

The Sellswords

The White Queen

Turnabout (Is this one a special case too?)

Wheels of Prophecy

Zalnoya and the Shadow Thieves

ToBEX extender

 

 

 

I've subtracted out Darkside and Northern tales because they also failed to install in BWP, and so I've decided to leave those out, but I would like to somehow keep Dark Horizons if there is a way to make it work. I'm assuming at this point I won't actually need the BP_Balancer since I'm not play those mods in the end.

 

 

Anyway, let's assume I'm going to use BWP again, but is there any special cases I must do first before I run the program again? Also while I'm at it, does it make a difference if I pick either Standard or Recommended? What happens if I picked Standard? Does Standard deviate from the BWP guide, and assumes you want every component installed?

 

[The Imp]

Anyway, let's assume I'm going to use BWP again, but is there any special cases I must do first before I run the program again? Also while I'm at it, does it make a difference if I pick either Standard or Recommended? What happens if I picked Standard? Does Standard deviate from the BWP guide, and assumes you want every component installed?

Well that's a yes and no.

First of all the BWS is more up to date than the BWP guide, just cause of the release date.

The second is that the either the Standard or the Recommended compilations limit their mod selections to a portion of the whole of the "Expert" BWP version -compilation. And you want to make sure to push the "..." beside the Compilation button to actually fully customize your install setup.

 

If you start the BWS(via the .vbs), what you probably should first of all do is go back to the very first page(the language selection page) of the selector and make sure you select the "BWS: BiG World Project (detailed customization)" on the way forward(on the second page),  so that it is not the "BiG World Install.bat (fixed and well-tried)". This is done by going back the pages with the "Back" buttons.

[BGEFanatic]

I also need help with installation of mods. Because I just recently bought copies of original Baldurs Gate 1 & 2 from GoG. What confuses me is the mod installations, the "in-order" cause man I don't have any ideas.

 

@Falagar Is this heavy modding? How about adding Stratagems?

Edited by BGEFanatic, 25 June 2014 - 05:42 AM.

[The Imp]

Is this heavy modding?

Well, if we look at the facts, there's ~20 mods, one being the BGT, others being BG1 mods made specifically to work with BGT in the BG2 engine... it is already there. The add the BWS's fixes and. YES.. obviously.

I also need help with installation of mods. Because I just recently bought copies of original Baldurs Gate 1 & 2 from GoG. What confuses me is the mod installations, the "in-order" cause man I don't have any ideas.

Then just download the BWS, the bws_20140619.exe should be the most up to date, and then just run it, extract it to a folder you intent to keep, if memory serves it runs the .vbs file, and then you just follow the instructions given around the interface.

[Eric P.]

Here's one alternative to BWS that you might consider as a guide. While you have to install this list manually (unless you feel like writing your own install script), it checks out as the closest thing to stable I've come up with so far:

 

Complete list, in order:

BG2 Fixpack

1PP (NOT flame swords or colourable quarterstaves)

Sylmar Battlefield
Tales of the Deep Gardens
Innershade
I Shall Never Forget
The White Queen
Eilistraee's Song
D0 QuestPack
Dungeon Crawl
Spellhold Gauntlet
TheBigg Quest Pack (Underdark Mage Duel)
The Tortured Soul Quest

Deeper Shadows of Amn
CoM Encounters

Alex Macintosh
Haer'Dalis' Swords
hammers
Rupert the Dye Merchant
Teleport Spell
Vampire Tales (CoM Store I)
Item Upgrade
Song and Silence (Bardic store and thief items)
Z#misc (Uberweapon)

Conductor
Crusader Pack (Champion of Torm, crusader items)
Elven Pack
6's Kitpack (Gen. class, kit, & class-combination rebalancing; Sniper)
morituri
NPC Kitpack
Sword and Fist (Duskblade)
Prestige Kitpack (Dreadnought, Champion, Tempest, Shadowdancer)
Warsling Sniper
Tactics (Generic Archer)
Z#AdKit wwarch
werewarrior
Z#Misc (Reaver)
Divine Remix (Silverstar of Selune, Nightcloak of Shar, Battleguard of Tempus, Feywarden of Corellon, Wilderness Runner)

Amber
Kivan
Yasraena
Auren
Saerileth
Yvette
Solaufein
HRD
BTL (Note: not compatible with Alternatives mod)

Crossmod Banter Pack
De'Arnise Romance

ARP
Wheels of Prophecy
Rogue Rebalancing
aTweaks
1PP (Flame swords, Colourable Quarterstaves)
The Bigg Tweak Pack
BG2 Tweaks
BuTcHeRy
Unfinished Business
Turambar Fixes and Tweaks
Zyraen's Miscellany
TB Quest (A Large Battle)

1PP HQ Music II
NSC Portraits
BG2CPM
Unique Containers
W_GUI (not alternative fonts)
Dungeon Be Gone

Nythrun Fix
testo.tp2
* Drop 1PP fonts into override