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[Gaernulf]

About a year ago, I was playing WeiDU. I had reached chapter 5 in the Baldur's Gate I campaign (which I had never played actually, I started with BGII ) but I was still trying to cope with all the joy of having something like WeiDU. Being able to play BGI with the BGII technology is invaluable, since I first tried to play the original BGI as it came, but very soon started looking for a mod that does exactly what WeiDU does

At some point I had to reinstall WindowsXP and in order to preserve my WeiDU installation, since I didn't want to have to go through it all over again, I copied it to my ubuntu volume. When I finished reinstalling Windows, drivers, etc. and tried to play WeiDU again, I got an error about the game not being installed or something like that. I figured it's a missing registry entry because the whole Black Isle directory was intact and freshly copied in the same condition in which it worked before the Windows reinstall.

I googled and found the page: http://www.sorcerers...trouble.php#reg where I read that to fix a problem with similar causes as mine, I have to enter some registry key values. I'm going to try that and see if it fixes things, but if anyone is aware of a better or confirmed method to get all the registry data back, please let me know.

If anyone could export and post his working registry data, of course it would be the best

[Jarno Mikkola]

About a year ago, I was playing WeiDU.

You are probably referring to BGT-WeiDU, as the WeiDU.exe is the program all the IE games today use to install any mods they have, so they can be combined.

Now, you should also know that you do not need your computer to even have a registry entry for BG2, if you start the game from the BGMain.exe, so use it instead of the baldur.exe to start the game, as that only launches the games front-end program that uses the windows registry entry to know where the BGMain.exe looms, which it then starts if it's still there.

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 16 October 2009 - 01:05 PM.

[Gaernulf]

Thanks for the quick answer. I'm currently under ubuntu, copying the game back to the windows volume, so I'll try skipping to BGMain.exe as you suggest. I just hope it works that easy

Yes, I should have said BGT-WeiDU. I haven't yet tried any other IE game than the BG games, so I didn't know

I'll post back what happened in a few minutes.

[Gaernulf]

I started BGMain.exe. The result is a dialog box with "Baldur's Gate II - Shadows of Amn - Throne of Bhaal" in the title bar and just a simple "-1" in the body. After I click OK to this window, an error type of dialog window comes out (with the white X on red circle) which says the same thing in the title bar and "An Assertion failed in ChDimm.cpp at line number 834" in the body. Any clue what this may mean?

EDIT: creating the registry values has no effect

Edited by Gaernulf, 16 October 2009 - 01:50 PM.

[Jarno Mikkola]

I started BGMain.exe. The result is a dialog box with "Baldur's Gate II - Shadows of Amn - Throne of Bhaal" in the title bar and just a simple "-1" in the body. After I click OK to this window, an error type of dialog window comes out (with the white X on red circle) which says the same thing in the title bar and "An Assertion failed in ChDimm.cpp at line number 834" in the body. Any clue what this may mean?

The error is caused by bad baldur.ini's [Alias] header, so open it with Notepad or similar program and edit the lines so they points to the new directory. Easy...

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 16 October 2009 - 01:54 PM.

[Gaernulf]

It works now. My ethernal thanks

[Jarno Mikkola]

[Alias]
HD0:=H:\Black Isle\BGII - SoA
CD1:=H:\Black Isle\BGII - SoA\CD1\

Look at the ends of the two lines, what's missing in the first, that's there on the second ? Could it be that you are missing one slash aka / , no, it's the "\" ...