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Well, I got through BGT, including DSotSC, NTotSC, the expanded SoBH, and then NeJ1 and Chateau Irenicus (NeJ1 is a tough slog after trying the new version, but unless and until compatibility is permitted and achieved, it will have to do....)  On the plus side, I actually got through the Vale of Shadows on Insane Difficulty, without cheating!  (except, of course, for retrieving the items I had at the end of BG1).

Now I'm in Athkatla, and I've got the Edwin Romance and the Kivan mods installed.  I'll see how far I get--it's been a long time since I got into ToB in a BP game!

Anyhow, when I got to Edwin, when I clicked on him, he gave me his parting dialogue from BG1 and walked off.  Then another Edwin appeared, and clicking on him gave the proper BG2 dialogue.  When he joined my party, he was missing his necklace and Mae'Var's key.  CLUA'ing in the key is easy enough, but is there a way to CLUA his necklace into the proper place?  Just adding it to the game, if it can't be removed, does nothing but tie up an inventory slot.  And I haven't been able to get NI working properly, and SK doesn't work with BP, and I haven't been able to make heads or tails of DLTCEP at all yet.

Certainly not a game-breaker, just an inconvenience...if anyone has any suggestions, they'll be much appreciated.

I'd held off on reinstalling for a while, waiting on the new version of BP....but finally went ahead and bit the bullet, to have a look at NTotSC and the sequel portion of Bone Hill.

I've had a number of minor issues--some fubared names and dialogue, no trolls at Firewine, minimal Xvarts at the village & gnolls at the fort, missing access to dragon hoard, Viconia thinks she's BGII--but nothing serious, nothing meriting comment since most of these have already been reported and will no doubt be fine on the new platform.

However, at this stage--and I've just killed the Forest Dragon, and done just about everything it's possible to do before entering the city of Baldur's Gate, except going north to the Fields of the Dead--the game is now crashing when I attempt to rest. Either at an in or out in the wilderness. The game just stalls for awhile, then I get a popup telling me the program found an error and has to close.

Anyone else hit something similar? Anyone have any suggestions?

[BGARRI.DLG] loaded
ERROR: internal label [24] appears 2 times in processed DLG [25SPELL]
ERROR: postprocessing [25SPELL]: Failure("cannot resolve label")
Stopping installation because of error.

Has anyone yet successfully installed a new version of BP?  With the updated versions of BGT, TDD, SoS, TS, etc?

If so, is there a new install guide around somewhere, or would someone who knows how  consent to create one?

Just as BGT adds BG1 content to BGII, and NeJ is (gradually) adding IWD-HoW-TotL content to BGII...I've been toying with figuring out how to import IWDII into BP.

As a modding virgin, I'm sure this is far more complicated than I even dream, at this point.  I'm sure there's a relatively easy way to add IWD2's dialog.tlk file to the main one, after all, every other mod does it.  And I suppose that, if one already has IWD2 installed on their computer, as one has to have BG1 for BGT, one doesn't need to have a huge install program, just something that will import and rename from the other directory.  I'm sure that the area and creature and item scripts will have to be thoroughly checked, because of the differences in the IE versions and 2E vs 3E issues.

And I'm sure that there will have to be some serious "beefing-up" of at least the early stages of the IWD2 content, geared as it is for low-level characters, and I expect anyone who does all the BG1-SoBH-DSotSC-NTotSC-NeJ1 content will leave Chateau Irenicus with about a million XP.

So, I suppose I'll just ask if there's any interest in this, and if people who do have a clue about modding would be inclined to answer stupid questions if I do undertake this task....