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[Aldain]

Having a minor issue right now, and the topic pretty much says it all. I'm using the 4 in 1 boxset for bg1/bg2.

BG1 is installed (full install in a custom directory, c:\\old games\\Baldur's Gate), and was working fine.. before I reinstalled BG2 + ToB. Now BG1 thinks it isn't installed, and when I put either the TotSC or BG1 dvd in the drive, it shows up as the ToB disc.

More than likely it's some kind of registry error.. any thoughts on how to fix it? It's nothing crucial as I can just reinstall when next the mood strikes me to play BG1, but that's a fair few hours spent setting everything up, and if I can avoid it, all the better. BG1 is almost completely unmodded, just the official patches as well as BG1Tweaks.

[Shadow_Leech07]

This happened to me too. I just uninstalled BG1 as I'm not currently playing it.

[ussnorway]

Aldain wrote...
... and when I put either the TotSC or BG1 dvd in the drive, it shows up as the ToB disc.

Wow! Did you get this computer from a garage sale? I suggest that you save your files and format the computer...

[Aldain]

ussnorway wrote...

Aldain wrote...
... and when I put either the TotSC or BG1 dvd in the drive, it shows up as the ToB disc.

Wow! Did you get this computer from a garage sale? I suggest that you save your files and format the computer...

No I did not <_< It's certainly old, but the drive is in perfect working order, as is the rest of it. For posterity's sake, what seemed to cause this was the following steps:
1. Uninstall Baldur's Gate and TotSC.
2. Reinstall Baldur's Gate and TotSC, patch, apply mods.
3. Uninstall Baldur's Gate 2 and ToB.
4. Reinstall Baldur's Gate 2 and ToB, patch, apply mods.

I'm guessing reinstalling BG2 is the culprit, as it seems to have removed any BG1 registry entries in the process... I'll just have to reinstall BG1.

[ussnorway]

Perhaps I'm not understanding you... Is the TotSC/ BG1 DVD physically the same disc i.e. also has ToB on it?

If the answer is no but shows as Tob then your drive isn't working correctly... unless you have some sort of simulator program like MagicDisc running then I would suspect drivers before hardware (certain forms of disc copywright protection cause this error) and formate the system back to default.

Your registry might ask for the Tob disc because it can't access the program files (a common win7 issue) but that's a different thing to showing the wrong disc as being in your drive.

Modifié par ussnorway, 28 juin 2011 - 09:46 .

[Grond0]

It does seem an odd situation. I wonder if it's possible that in applying one of the mods you accidentally pointed it to the BG1 directory rather than BG2. I imagine that could cause this sort of registry error.

Unless you are really short of HD space you might like to copy the vanilla + patches installations somewhere else on your drive once you're happy they are working properly. If you later want to reinstall for any reason (such as changing mod set-up) just delete your existing set-up and copy and paste the whole BG1 (or 2) folder in the same location as the previous one was. That way all your existing registry settings will still work - this is quite a bit quicker and less hassle than using all the discs.

[Aldain]

ussnorway wrote...

Perhaps I'm not understanding you... Is the TotSC/ BG1 DVD physically the same disc i.e. also has ToB on it?

If the answer is no but shows as Tob then your drive isn't working correctly... unless you have some sort of simulator program like MagicDisc running then I would suspect drivers before hardware (certain forms of disc copywright protection cause this error) and formate the system back to default.

Your registry might ask for the Tob disc because it can't access the program files (a common win7 issue) but that's a different thing to showing the wrong disc as being in your drive.

No, they are different discs. The TotSC disc seems to have the same label as the ToB disc (it shows up with the name BG2 TOB in Windows Explorer, but it has the BG1 icon), but the actual disc content is alright. I'm more inclined to believe this is due to some Atari wonkyness with the 4 in 1 boxset, my copy is one of those you have to patch to get it to run at all.

I'm also running XP and have all the IE games installed in a custom directory so it shouldn't be a problem with permissions (and it isn't as the games all run.. or used to at least). The oddity is that I can't find any registry entries whatsoever for BG1, they all seem to have gotten wiped... so either I have an extremely selective harddrive failure happening, or BG2 uninstallation isn't very picky about what registry values it deletes.

Grond0 wrote...

It does seem an odd situation. I wonder
if it's possible that in applying one of the mods you accidentally
pointed it to the BG1 directory rather than BG2. I imagine that could
cause this sort of registry error.

Unless you are really short
of HD space you might like to copy the vanilla + patches installations
somewhere else on your drive once you're happy they are working
properly. If you later want to reinstall for any reason (such as
changing mod set-up) just delete your existing set-up and copy and paste
the whole BG1 (or 2) folder in the same location as the previous one
was. That way all your existing registry settings will still work -
this is quite a bit quicker and less hassle than using all the
discs.

I am short on space, but not so short I can't spare the 2.5ish gb that a full BG1 installation takes. I'll take this advice to heart once I get around to reinstalling.


Of course, all the above is pretty off topic. I might return with a list of what registry values BG1 requires to run once I do reinstall, might come in handy if this problem resurfaces...