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[Echo]

I don't want to spam on the forum, so I'm reusing this thread for the error continuation. Renamed it appropriately. Please check post #5 if you can help me. Thank you.

 

 

~EDIT~ I guess I'm going to try going with BWS completely and see what happens with the components... Hmmm. MAJESTIC fixes haha. Looking through those I wonder if they'd apply to some of the bugs I had in my last playthrough. They sound like they might squash a few, by name at least :3

 

Still, I'm curious why the below happens...

 

<<the below starts here>>

 

Hello, I'm back to Baldur's Gate, I think it's been 2 or 3 years since I last played, I see some things have changed, but I've just encountered the strangest thing yet, and I haven't a clue how to even look for solution. I've been using BiG world for like, I don't know, 4 years now? 5? 6? Many times, but it never did this.

 

I ran the BWS first, with the selection of Big World Installer (I want to pick components of my mods by hand, I heard it's possible now. Did I misread?). So I made the selection, downloaded all the mods (aside of the Improved Asylum 101, I can't find it aaanywhere, Stratagems Fix, also cannot find it, and supposedly Unfinished Business [even though I actually downloaded it manually, BWS still didn't see it]).

 

So then, after everything was set, I clicked "exit", and it took me to cmd of the Installer. I picked options, install this, install that (only skipped the beta, kits and unstable, selected Y for everything else since it's just the mods I want anyway in my folder), and then it ran some patcher, patched the files, did some creature offset thingie, popped a black-and-green window that said it was installing components and...

 

...finished. "Installation complete"

"Do you want to list all not installed mods?"

 

[Y]

 

<list of all of my mods>

 

All the stickies here are rather old, so I don't know what gives. In the times that those stickies were made, I never has this issue. Yes, there were dozens of problems in-game, but not with the install. Guess I got onto a new level of borkage. I probably did some stupid thing wrong, but even though I'm familiar with what BWP is, I'm still a n00b and could've easily missed something amongst all the other things. Please be gentle

Edited by Echo, 05 December 2014 - 03:26 PM.

[dabus]

Might want try to follow this... (the first posts summarize your selection this far and the editing starts around post #24).

 

Short version: Your selection leads to nothing since the installer does not support the selection... the scripts that could do that are there but you need to edit some files. Maybe you have more luck / do understand what I mean in Anchevs topic or I'll have to try to rephrase it. He had more luck installing stuff with a customized BWS install (if there's still something missing, you could make use of the pause-button and install the stuff you want manually).

[Echo]

Yes, yes, that's exactly what I did, thank you. I found whatever I needed in the BWS, and set the auto pausing on anything fishy, so when it had issues with a file, I just installed it on my own in the place in the install where BWS said it should go. I don't know if it's needed/relevant, but here are two major things (and easily fixable by user even) that didn't work for me, maybe it'll help someone:

 

- BWS doesn't see BG1 unfinished business, due to zip file size being different. I forced it to use it and it seems to have gone fine.

- It also really wants Stratagems v28 fix file, which, from what I've seen (and I searched everywhere again) doesn't exist. I removed that entry from BWS files in the BWS folder (just the 2 or 3 lines pertaining to the fix, and Stratagems actually installed this time. Hopefully installed properly). It completely skipped the install 1st time around

- there's 1 option missing in BG1 Romantic Encounters that makes it impossible for BWS to install it. Something with -ahem-, there's no check option in customization, so it borks there.

 

That being said, I was horrified at first to see that BWS was discontinued, but then I found someone was working on it, and, after I stopped trusting the "use Installed, most checked and tested" version of installation there (I call it trolling me! ), and having used it like in good old times, I want to give the folks continuing it a batter of cookies. Like, best thing ever. Love you. And everyone who made BWP happen. And WeiDU. And modders. You know. Cheers.

Edited by Echo, 05 December 2014 - 01:20 PM.

[Sergio]

if Bws is set in a certain way, it means that it needs those files. >.<

Why are you removing manually those files from the .ini?

I can't help you with BG1 romantic enocunter. The website hosting stratagems fix (that is actually quite needed unless you want bugged AI) is now unreachable.

Edited by Sergio, 05 December 2014 - 01:34 PM.

[Echo]

BG1 RE is easily installed manually, I only wrote about it in case someone else Googled the same problem and ended up here. It's not an issue for me.

 

SCS-wise - I removed those 2 lines, because BWS wouldn't install SCS at all otherwise. It had strange issues with BG1 UB and RE, so I assumed the fix could've simply been implemented into the v28 already, since I couldn't find the fix (or mention of it) anywhere near the SCS official site or forums.

 

Since that's not the case, could someone please send that file to me/upload it somewhere temporarily?

 

I've ported around some locations checking for bugs, and I've actually found one really fast. From Google search it seems possible that it comes from SCS, but I cannot open any thread on G3 (keeps redirecting me to main forum page... no clue what happened).

 

The error:

But if it's not SCS, then my guess is something went wrong with the Infinity Animations. In the previous install (the one with ninja-absent SCS), the commoners in BG1 had different models. Now they're back to the regular ones, which is suspicious, as I didn't change anything around those mods in selection.

 WeiDU.log   78.05K   191 downloads

Edited by Echo, 05 December 2014 - 02:44 PM.

[Sergio]

http://forums.gibber...opic=26792?st=0

First post


I would avoid using "modded" infinity animations if I were you , especially the component 'fire elementals' from 1pp

No clue about your error, though

[Echo]

Like I said, for whatever reason I cannot open any G3 links. It's always the main page. I found like 5 results in Google leading there, but no browser I have opens anything there.

 

I would gladly skip any unnecessary animations, but I have no idea which are optional, and which are required by others mods. I remember vaguely having an instal once upon a time that lacked some IA content and it also resulted in crashes.

 

EDIT: I found the Area CRE Checker utility. It's onto something. Looks like the fishy creature is Kurtz something (didn't gleam full name), and that Google-points me to a vendor from Team BG Armor pack. And yes, I didn't have it installed in the install that didn't crash. But why would a vendor cause a crash? Does he have some special look or whatnot?

 

 

 

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I reinstalled the game without those Armor and Weapon packs, checked Promenade, no crashes, still don't have those new models around, I don't know if it's an issue or not (crashy-issue, I don't care that much how they look like).

 

I've ran the areacheck, but this time it didn't want to spawn anything, it just said Done and Done (maybe probably because I picked all areas, and not just the Promenade). But I got a log, I'm just going to leave it here for when/if someone in the know strolls by. My WeiDU log is in post #5 too.

 

The most entries here come from ar1200, which turned out to be Firkraag Hills (Windspear? Can't remember). I ported there, then ported around, visited the knight-monsters, trolls, dryads, ogrillions, some party in front of the cave, and even a pheasant. No crashes, so, basically, I'm 101% clueless what those entries mean, or generally what I'm doing. As long as it works I'm happy, I don't need to know, but the log probably DOES mean something, so yep, leaving it here. It's like 7-8 locations total listed.

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•  arealog.txt   1.03K   556 downloads

Edited by Echo, 06 December 2014 - 07:59 AM.

[Darpaek]

This is the most recent SCS fix file (Downloaded @12/7)

 

I feel dumb, but how do I set the BWS to autopause when it has an error installing a mod?  The BWS can't install SCS, BG2 Tweak Pack, or BG Romantic Encounters.  I could probably live without RE, but the other two are pretty important to the mod I want.

 

I'm trying to install mods onto just BGEE.

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•  stratagemsV28 fix V1.4.rar   143.23K   146 downloads

Edited by Darpaek, 07 December 2014 - 04:35 AM.

[dabus]

Right before the install starts, there's a window with "Program defaults". You can set the installation logic to "Report failed installation" or something else. If you keep that, components that failed to install should be summed up and the install should pause/stop. If you want to, you could also enter the selection screen, change the view to "sort in install-order" and add a pause before the next mod by using the context menu available by a right click on the mouse.

[Echo]

Thank you for the file, though with my lack of patience I installed without it 2 days ago. I'll add it if something gets broken, so far the game works far better than the last time I played, AI-wise (people do what they should be doing instead of standing around looking confused).

 

Alas, I was too late to repay with the advice :<