Absent dialogue issue/bug

Wings_of_Titanium

Hey friends!

I've just started playing BG1 again. I wanted to hang out with some of my old fictional friends again, but imagine my disappointment when I discovered they'd all become mute! I've reached chapter 3 with no random dialogue among NPCs. I then installed the tutu mod and restarted (exporting my character from the first game, in case it's relevant) and the issue has continued thus far in my new game as well.

I've played the game before, so I know there's meant to be more dialogue than this. It was all over the place the first time, and I didn't get much further than this before seeing it.

If it helps, I'm playing the game in single-player mode. My party had Imoen, Viconia, Minsc, Dynaheir and Edwin the first time, and Imoen, Viconia, Kivan and Ajantis the second.

Also, I had a look around, and I see this has been raised in a couple of other threads, but the issue wasn't resolved in either of them. I'll link to the ones I found for convenience:
http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/9263/serious-npc-dialogue-bug
http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/8323/no-dialogue

Thanks for your time!

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lunar

There are very few, rare talks among coupled NPCs, like Jaheira and Khalid do engage in some small talk. They don't comment on every quest or important event like they do in BG2. BG2 has greatly expanded the character dialogue-interjections.

New characters of BG:EE are a bit better, they have a few talks. Some old NPCs have a few interjections with them, too.

BG1 NPC mod adds tons of new dialogue, interjections, quests for every BG1 NPC in the game. Sadly it is for TuTu or BGT only. For now.

Eudaemonium

Yet another thread appears indicating the ubiquitous nature of the BG1 NPC mod, so mcuh so that everyone forgets it was a mod and just thinks it was part of the original game.

I can't wait for that mod...

Wings_of_Titanium

This is not so!

I tried to indicate it in the original post, but it's being overlooked like in the other threads I linked to. I've never heard of the BG1 NPC mod, I've never used it. I know from playing BG1 previously that there is supposed to be more dialogue than this. I know Imoen pries into Jaheira and Khalid's marriage, I saw Minsc's lengthy tale-telling driving Edwin mad, I remember Imoen playing around with the mage book she got off of that assassin. This time around, I'm not getting less dialogue, I'm getting zero. I'm a decent way into the game, and I'd gotten heaps of dialogue by the time I got to this point last time.

Does anyone know how to fix the problem?

lunar

Hmm, I can tell all of the stuff you mentioned are from the BG1 NPC mod. Maybe you used Bigworld project and it installed that mod automatically so you did not notice?

Wings_of_Titanium

I just downloaded it from gog.com, does it come with it from there? But I did it the same way this time, too.

Wings_of_Titanium

Okay, I was wrong.

I just downloaded the BG1 NPC mod to test it out, and literally within 2 seconds of my loading the game I got some dialogue I remembered from last time. I guess it must've been installed either without my knowledge or in some way I've since forgotten. Thanks for setting me on the right track.

To anyone who googled their way into this thread like I googled my way into the other two - Grab the BG1 NPC mod (you can just google that) and give it a try. That solved the problem for me.