Yet another bleeding BG thread *sigh*

[Apocalypse]

The thing about KOTOR is that you're stuck in one place, much like final fantasy games. Thus combat is repetive and all you have to do is know what techniques to select.

[duke o' york]

Well I went back to BGI à l'ordinaire last night and once again played to the Friendly Arm Inn. This time it didn't play on because it asked for CD2 in the C drive!
The C drive?!!!??!?!?!? The other two CDs were requested in the D drive, and it all worked fine. I'm mightily ****ed off now, especially as I had a kick-ass paladin with STR, DEX and CHA of 18, and WIS of 17.
I reckon that I'm going to copy the save file into my documents or some dump file, then de- and reinstal BGI and start again, copying the save files back into the save folder. Does this sound as if it will work?

[DrSpike]

You can back up your save files and reinstall and move them back in. Make sure first though there isn't character information saved elsewhere.

It seems a strange error. Make sure you try again after a reboot before squashing the old install.

[duke o' york]

Jamski, where would such files be kept, if they indeed exist?

Yes, it's another round of "Ask Jamski", the hilarious panel game with a difference. And here's your host....... Jamski!

[DrSpike]

There's a very good chance you only need the save files. Still, probably best to wait until Jamski returns from the world of Folderol.

[duke o' york]

Do us a favour Doc.

Pop over to Folderol and fetch him back.

[Dis]

Originally posted by Trajanus
I'm playing KOTOR now, and I must say that the BG games are a lot more tactical, hell kotor is just plain easy! I'm playing on normal settings of course, perhaps I should set it to hard

I was recently playing this game. It is easy, I have set it to hard difficutly because normal is no challenge. I find on normal level I never use any special items like traps or grenades. I never need them. I can melee everything with no problem.

The only fight I found hard was that Starkiller guy. The guy who only does death matches on Taris. He's only hard because I purposely put off levelling up so I can get more Jedi levels. But I had to level up to level 5 to get him.

[Dis]

Originally posted by duke o' york
Well I went back to BGI à l'ordinaire last night and once again played to the Friendly Arm Inn. This time it didn't play on because it asked for CD2 in the C drive!
The C drive?!!!??!?!?!? The other two CDs were requested in the D drive, and it all worked fine. I'm mightily ****ed off now, especially as I had a kick-ass paladin with STR, DEX and CHA of 18, and WIS of 17.
I reckon that I'm going to copy the save file into my documents or some dump file, then de- and reinstal BGI and start again, copying the save files back into the save folder. Does this sound as if it will work?

I did the full install. Which BG do you have? The 3 disk set or the 6 disk set?

I have had problems with the 6 disk set, but not the 3.

[Dis]

Originally posted by DrSpike
There's a very good chance you only need the save files. Still, probably best to wait until Jamski returns from the world of Folderol.

the save files should be all you need. I have switched them around. Look around and make sure there isn't a folder named characters though. I don't think there is, but if there is, save those as well.

[Traianvs]

Yeah my main character, a soldier just melees everything with his lightsabre+upgraded vibroblade prototype (yup the weapon you get right in the beginning). There's no real need for better weapons seeing i'm doing huge damage already.

I wouldn't know how to use the mines anyway, most of the times they don't run at you but simply fire a blaster.
Annoying thing is it's very time consuming to switch from melee to ranged and vice versa, especially with that console inventory.. it's awful! Actually the combat is very easy and one sided, but the choices you can make are quite diverse!

[duke o' york]

Go and talk KotoR in the designated thread!

I've got the 3 disc version.

It all works fine now!
I uninstalled it, reinstalled it and it now asks for drive D:, which is exactly what it should do. My paladin is back in action, but doing decidedly un-paladin-like things. I felt that I had to hire Xzar and Montaron as mercenaries to take us to the Friendly Arm, but now we've arrived they're history and I had to go and take Khalid and Jaheira to beat up extra hobgoblins to salve my conscience. In fact, I could probably have made it to the Inn without the evil characters, but I didn't want to take a chance. The Lord has work for me to do!

* duke is worried that he seems to be turning into Ben Kenobi.

[DrSpike]

Why the switch back from Tutu? I've been planning on using that when I finally get around to BG.

[duke o' york]

Well I had the same problem with going to the Friendly Arm. But with Tutu it would just crash and leave me looking at my (conventional blue) desktop, instead of the loading screen saying "please insert CD2 into drive C:"I'm not sure that I had everything installed properly and patched properly, and decided that the quick fix was just to start playing BG. I also noticed that Gorion's assailant takes 1HP off you in the ordinary game too. But I had more than 1HP at the time and it didn't matter.

[Jamski]

Its expecting that you made a full install by copying all the discs to your C drive (Which is a GREAT idea, btw. Never have to swop discs!)

You can look in one of the .ini files and tell BG what path to look for the discs on.

-Jam

[Jamski]

Paste this over at the top of baldur.ini to make it look in the D drive

[Alias]
HD0:=C:\Programme\Black Isle\Baldur's Gate\
CD1:=D:\CD1\
CD2:=D:\CD2\
CD3:=D:\CD3\
CD4:=D:\CD4\
CD5:=D:\CD5\

-Jam