Katylar

Hi. I've played both BGII SOA and TOB a while a go, and decided to buy a copy of BG-Original Saga (BGI&TotSC). However, I was a bit dismayed to find that the old game, though excellent, was clearly not as good as the new one... (reasonable, given the major upgrade in the engine). So I decided to try BGT-WeiDU.

Can anyone help me in the process of a creating a solid installation of these four games, using the BGT. I really don't have any plans of using any major mods and the like, do as far as I can see, if I should change my mind, most Mods I like are WeiDU, and from what I've gathered, that should pretty much ensure compatibility.

I have:

Baldur's Gate The Original Saga (Can anyone tell me what is the latest recommended patch?)
Baldur's Gate II - SoA (Can anyone tell me what is the latest recommended patch?)
Baldur's Gate II - ToB (Can anyone tell me what is the latest recommended patch?)
Baldur's Gate II - SoA Collector's Edition, and Baldur's Gate II - SoA Bonus CD

BGT-WeiDU v1.07
BGT Tweak v8

Yoshimo Friendship v1.0

NPC Flirt Packs v1.02 (from pocketplane)
Banter Packs v9.0 (from pocketplane)

G3 BG2 Fix Pack v8.0
G3 BG2 Tweak Pack v7.0

Improved Robe of Vecna

That's all I have. Should I try and find FixPatches for BG1 and TotSC? Or should it be really clean and vanilla for the BGT installation to work? Also, what order should I install these in, and would the Tweak Pack found in the G3BG2TP still work? I liked a lot of the tweaks found there.

Finally, is there a Viconia romance/banter mod for the BG1 part of the game? I plan to have her as my one and only girl throughout the entire saga.

From what I can guess, the correct order should be:

BG 1 - Original Saga (Includes TotSC and patched to the newest version, I think)
BG 2 - SoA then BG 2 - ToB, patched to 26498 (or should I use 26499Beta?)
BG 2 Collector's Edition; BG 2 Bonus CD

G3 BG2 Fix Pack

BGT-WeiDU

G3 BG2 Tweak Pack

BGT Tweak

Yoshimo Friendship
Banter Pack
Flirt Pack
Improved Robe of Vecna


Is this good? Any suggestions are welcome!

PS: What is the BG1 NPC Project? Is it any good? Should I include it? Is it compatible? When should I install it, in the over-all procedure? Thanks.

Well, as my Topic Description suggests, my cinematics, including the Black Isle intro play at the upper right hand corner of a black screen.

It's a shame, really, since everything else about this mod is excellent- the added graphics are superb and are placed beautifully within the game. In fact, I would say that PS:T with the Widescreen mod and the 1280x800 UI mod is probably how PS:T should be played. The breathtaking beauty of the maps in a higher resolution only reinforce the conclusion that the original designers meant to make a game with this res from the start.

I have a 2CD PS:T with a copied cd2 directory and a noCD crack, since my laptop doesn't have an optic drive. At first, I installed the entire game first, including the noCD patch, then your mod. It made my game a lot better, but the movies always ended up in the upper right corner... everything else is centered. I uninstalled the game and reinstalled everything, making sure to apply the mods first before applying the noCD crack. Now, the result is that of my movies playing in the center-left side of my black screen.

I haven't found cinematics as one of the features of this mod, so I'm guessing that this is still a problem to be solved by the next release, but I posted just to make sure.

By the way, when I install the Widescreen mod, there are no problems, but when i install the 1280x800 UI mod, the app says that there are warnings during the installation of the core files.

Any comments?

Thanks.