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[Shakor]

Hiya,
I was looking through a Baldur's Gate II walkthrough and it mentioned fixing the wild surges to a specific one using CTRL+H. I have tried using it to fix it to #59 (makes weapons glow), but I must be missing something, cause I can't get it to work. Does anyone know how to make it work and/or will it work in Shadows of Amn as long as Throne of Bhaal is installed?
Thanks,

[Shakor]

Please, it's been bugging me for quite some time.

[Dancer Fitz]

That would involve editing your Baldur.ini file to enable cheats.

To do that, you just Search for that file, open it, then under the line "Program Options," type Debug Mode=1, save it, and open your game. I think pressing Ctrl+H should work now, but you may have to enable your cheat keys first. This is done by pressing Ctrl + Space bar to pull up the text line at the bottom of your screen, then typing CLUAConsole:EnableCheatKeys(), and Enter. I believe that should do it.

[Shakor]

The ini file was modified and the cheat keys were enabled. But I still can't figure out how to get CTRL+H to work. This is all the afore-mentioned walkthrough says about it:

Throne of Bhaal adds a new one:

    CTRL+H -- Fixes a wild mage to a specific surge, such that every time he
              casts a spell he gets that surge.  Setting the Surge Number to 0
              undoes the surge fixing and goes back to normal functioning (or
              malfunctioning as the case may be).

Any other ideas?

Thanks,

[Dancer Fitz]

I went into my file to test it, and it worked fine for me. After enabling the cheats, when you press the Ctrl and H key, is your regular screen listing 'Surge Number 1,' 'Surge Number 2,' and so on all through 100 with each press? I suppose you could also try adding Cheats=1 as the first line under Game Options(halfway down in the ini file, though that may be just the same thing), but other than that I don't know.

Perhaps a more tech savvy person can give you an easier method for making your weapons glow, eh?

P.S.
Oh, and the method I gave you actually makes it so every spell cast experiences the surge...perhaps not what you're looking for?

Sorry lad, wish I could help more

[Shakor]

Hiya,

Thanks for your reply. Will try a clean install of SOA and TOB without any additions and see if it works then (I have had extras installed since I first went through the whole game as a Barbarian). Otherwise I wouldn't know what the problem could be.
I would make the weapons glow but my knowledge is limited to Visual Basic 6 at the moment in terms of programming languages. Tis an idea though to learn how to use the engine now that I have a few months holiday before uni starts.

Again Thanks,

[Shakor]

Hey,

A clean install of Baldur's Gate II with no patches/upgrades worked. Am in the process of finding the patch/upgrade that caused the problem and I'll post here when I find it.

Thanks,