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d|b · 29 Oct 2010 at 11:27

So how does the map system work? I remember that in BGI you could wander around from area to area trying to find the side quests:

but in BG II there were no random areas to explore:

Do any of these mods add locations to the BG II map?

Pestilence · 29 Oct 2010 at 12:26

Thanks a TON for this, Neil. I've had these games around for yonks but never given them a fair chance.

Installed it all last night and left the mod installations running while I'm at work. A packed evening for me, methinks!

Neil79 · 29 Oct 2010 at 12:45

d|b said:
Do any of these mods add locations to the BG II map?

I believe it combines baldurs gate 1 and 2 map into one map , however from what i can tell you can't visit BG1 locations it just shows them. I have visited the odd randomn area in BG2 , especially with the added quests from the mods.

Still worth it though

d|b · 29 Oct 2010 at 15:19

Could anyone put up the combined map with all locations?

Neil79 · 29 Oct 2010 at 15:50

d|b said:
Could anyone put up the combined map with all locations?

Bit difficult as it's in sections :d

mushroomsoup · 29 Oct 2010 at 16:44

Oh my, that big BG map just rekindled my passion for the game. I'm going to install it again. Now!

Pestilence · 29 Oct 2010 at 21:23

Aw, man.

Literally just been through HOURS of doing this. Installed all four, patched them up and ran through the steps as posted.

Got to the TobEx-Setup.exe stage, and the options didn't match up...it asked what I wanted to do with mods already installed.

If I chose to (S)kip them, it pretty much skipped everything.

If I chose to (R)einstall them, it seemed to run through REMOVING all of the stuff that BiG World had already done, THEN gave me the (C)ompatibility option and so forth.

Queue close to another 2 hours and it's finished....except if I launch ToBLoader or Baldur.exe, I get a "...has stopped working" error.

FML

chrismscotland · 30 Oct 2010 at 00:18

I think I'm going to give up for now and just play BG and BGII as stock, I've tried this to the letter about 10 times and I can't get it to work!

Neil79 · 30 Oct 2010 at 08:55

Unbelievable , what are some of you like

IanAG · 30 Oct 2010 at 10:19

Thanks for the guide Neil! Followed it exactly (I think) and it seems to be pretty much working fine.

chrismscotland said:
Anyone know if its possible to use the no cd crack once the Big World stuff is installed? Want this on my netbook but obviously no DVD drive sadly and I've tried but couldn't get it to work, just wondering if anyone else had done anything similar?

I am in same situation, after following Neil's full guide I ran the nocd patcher. It 'works' but I am getting a crash pretty soon after the beginning. When I go to the cellar with the first combat tutorial it is crashing. This has only happened a couple of times and I haven't really worked out what the issue is. I will be trying it with the original .exe files and a USB DVD drive though to rule out the crack.

spudbynight · 31 Oct 2010 at 18:14

Just installing this now....currently downloading all the mods.

Neil79 · 31 Oct 2010 at 18:28

spudbynight said:
Just installing this now....currently downloading all the mods.

All?

, hopefully you followed my guide and didn't pick recommended or any of the other options

Pestilence · 31 Oct 2010 at 18:30

Got it working now.

A few little differences from Neil's guide: I chose to update BiG World when I ran it, then let it run through the "Recommended" installation.

At the end, I didn't run Setup-ToBEx. Instead, just installed the Widescreen mod, then launched the TobEx Launcher. All works fine from there!

Neil79 · 31 Oct 2010 at 18:35

Pestilence said:
Got it working now.

A few little differences from Neil's guide: I chose to update BiG World when I ran it, then let it run through the "Recommended" installation.

At the end, I didn't run Setup-ToBEx. Instead, just installed the Widescreen mod, then launched the TobEx Launcher. All works fine from there!

The Tobex Launcher works on it's own if you installed the recommended however if you followed my instructions it would need to be installed manually. Whatever way you do it my guide has less problems later on in the game.

But if you got working , well done

Jokester · 31 Oct 2010 at 18:39

Played it right through to the Cloakwood mines including all the early side quests and not had a single issue with it.

spudbynight · 31 Oct 2010 at 18:40

I am going with the "Standard" install

d|b · 31 Oct 2010 at 18:54

Is it possible to install BG II on a netbook without a disk drive? I know you can get BGI from gog.com but how would I go about installing BGII + ToB. Even if I did get an external disk drive I wouldnt want to carry it with me the whole time just to play BG.

Thanks for the help...

Pestilence · 31 Oct 2010 at 19:27

Neil79 said:
The Tobex Launcher works on it's own if you installed the recommended however if you followed my instructions it would need to be installed manually. Whatever way you do it my guide has less problems later on in the game.

But if you got working , well done

Ah, that makes sense.

Played up to the Friendly Arms Inn just now. Haven't played that far before (I seriously never even game them a chance when I picked them up!). What a punishing game, seriously! Party wipes are so easy!

spudbynight · 31 Oct 2010 at 20:55

d|b said:
Is it possible to install BG II on a netbook without a disk drive? I know you can get BGI from gog.com but how would I go about installing BGII + ToB. Even if I did get an external disk drive I wouldnt want to carry it with me the whole time just to play BG.

Thanks for the help...

I do remember a site that showed how to install a portable copy onto a USB pendrive.

chrismscotland · 31 Oct 2010 at 21:04

Thanks again to Neil, managed to get this working, just started BG1 again and its much better in the BG2 engine!!!