Hey guys, I'm trying to install BGT using BWS. I've done it in the past successfully, but it was about a year ago. When I let bws check the links Big world install pack isn't accessible, as well as several other mods. Unfortunately I can't access it manually either, is shs down? Does anyone know where I can find this (and other mods on shs?) It's big world install pack, and text pack Thanks!
Anyone know why they go down every so often and then for a couple days at a time? It seems unprofessional to me. Perhaps that's the wrong way to look at it but considering they're both so prevalent in the modding community, it's highly inconvenient when they do go down. I also do appreciate that the admins of the respective websites no doubt have full time jobs and do it in their free time, but that does little to assuage the frustration of it.
At any rate, I hope they go back up soon, I'm itching to do a BWS at the moment.
This is why I keep copies of all important modding files on my external hard drive. It saves a lot of hassle. It is always worthwhile keeping old versions of mods in case of incompatibilities turning up later. That is, if you have the space.
Well, unfortunately I was unaware of their inoperative status when I cleaned up all my old files. It is just frustrating to want to do something and not be able to, all other games of a similar genre seem somehow inadequate to me right now.
just picked up NWN:EE to pass the time. Never played any of the 'famous' mods, like Aielund. It's definitely better than the OC so far, just started A2.
Exactly where did you read that? I've checked their twitter and facebook and the only facebook post that says they are working on it is from May 30th which is a previous incident of them going down and not this instance of them going down.
As an aside, the frequency with which these websites go down is truly stupid.
So frustrating. Been down since the weekend. I have time off and wanting to play, but can’t get half the mods. Some mods having issues, but no access to mod forums for help. Grrrr.
Exactly where did you read that? I've checked their twitter and facebook and the only facebook post that says they are working on it is from May 30th which is a previous incident of them going down and not this instance of them going down.
As an aside, the frequency with which these websites go down is truly stupid.
After installing the game with BWS, everything else seems to work ok, but the character info screen is somehow messed up. Sorry, i have no idea where i should try to look for solutions.
This may or may not work. Try editing the character with EE Keeper, alter things, change them back and save the game. Re-open again. I haven't seen anything like that before.
I take it that this IS a new game. If you try and open an old game with a new installation, all sorts of problems WILL arise, not MIGHT arise.
It's a new game. But i noticed this problem first by loading an old save, that i had from an earlier BWS-installation (can this screw up the whole games settings, even with new playthroughs?) In EE keeper i modified the characters strength, saved the edit and then put back the old strength value and then saved. I opened the modified save and it didn't solve the problem.
All I can suggest then is that you try and eliminate where this problem is originating. If you still want your old games copy them into another folder and then delete all your in-game saves. Then start a new game. I once had a similar problem with a corrupted area file and had to delete an old game to solve the problem.
I'm not hopeful that this will work, but it's worth a try.
Sorry guys, i think the problem was that the "clean install" i had ready for the BWS install wasn't so clean after all. I think the game runs perfectly now. Thanks for the help though!
Hey guys I got my install to work. But I have a question, if I understand correctly EET runs BGI in the BGII engine right? If so I should be able to get more than 30 fps in BGI? I just ran vanilla BGII and I get a higher frame rate than BGI in EET. Does BGI just not work with more than 30fps, e.i. the rounds, game time etc are all tied to the fps or is there a setting within EET that I can change somewhere?
Since I installed this wonderful mod manager, the dialog box won't scroll to the bottom and the quick save button. Isn't saving. I understand that there are 100's of options that may be causing these issues, but I'm hoping there might be an easy fix. If not... oh well. .
I apologize for the idiot question...I have the most recent install of each game. Loaded TBW program, and I'm on the screen where I select my directories and customization (modding PSTEE). Selected the PSTEE location, green 'Select' Result. Have not changed the Downloads or Translation selections. I'm selecting "minimal', and then selecting 'choose Mods and Components'. I go there...and I don't have an option to make selections, as the 'Continue' button is greyed out. Is there anything I can do?
I apologize for the idiot question...I have the most recent install of each game. Loaded TBW program, and I'm on the screen where I select my directories and customization (modding PSTEE). Selected the PSTEE location, green 'Select' Result. Have not changed the Downloads or Translation selections. I'm selecting "minimal', and then selecting 'choose Mods and Components'. I go there...and I don't have an option to make selections, as the 'Continue' button is greyed out. Is there anything I can do?
You need to press Back button, then continue with installation.
I just had a problem starting BWS on a new IWD:EE installation and I thought I'd post it here in case anyone else runs into it.
I downloaded the latest IWD beta from Beamdog and copied the installation to my mod directory. Then I fired up BWS, let it update and pointed it at the copied game folder. I'm on Windows 10, so when I ran BWS, I had to type my admin password to run the VBS script host.
After picking my mods, I hit continue and it asked me to start the game and save, which I had forgotten to do. However, after I did this, hitting continue again caused BWS to fail without an error message.
I tried a couple more times with variations to try and pin down what was happening before I realized it was a problem with user contexts. I was running BWS as my admin user and running IWD as my regular user. I right clicked on the IWD exe and chose "Run as administrator" and saved the game. After that, BWS worked fine and installed the mods without further glitch.
There are generally mirrors you can Google where you can find everything when SHS is down, but sometimes theyre harder to find or out of date admittedly. BiG World Textpack v17.0.1 ENGLISH.7z is only 2 megs so since I have it in my downloads Ill make one temporarily for ya. Just put it in the "Downloads" folder in your BWS folder with the other mods
There are generally mirrors you can Google where you can find everything when SHS is down, but sometimes theyre harder to find or out of date admittedly. BiG World Textpack v17.0.1 ENGLISH.7z is only 2 megs so since I have it in my downloads Ill make one temporarily for ya. Just put it in the "Downloads" folder in your BWS folder with the other mods
thanks a ton you cant imagine how much you'v helped me. I searched like every website using every browser and read every thread but still couldnt find the file anywhere
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A: Theoretically yes but practically there is a huge chance that reverting process will fail. It's the nature of the game, mods and how they are coded. Also, you saved games will be incompatible. You should read excellent explanation by agb1:
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/comment/829506/#Comment_829506
https://forums.beamdog.com/discussion/comment/829720/#Comment_829720
It's big world install pack, and text pack
Thanks!
At any rate, I hope they go back up soon, I'm itching to do a BWS at the moment.
Anyone with contact to them?
Ha, Twitter and Facebook does the trick, but does not help either - They are "working on it".
As an aside, the frequency with which these websites go down is truly stupid.
Sorry, i have no idea where i should try to look for solutions.
I take it that this IS a new game. If you try and open an old game with a new installation, all sorts of problems WILL arise, not MIGHT arise.
I'm not hopeful that this will work, but it's worth a try.
I downloaded the latest IWD beta from Beamdog and copied the installation to my mod directory. Then I fired up BWS, let it update and pointed it at the copied game folder. I'm on Windows 10, so when I ran BWS, I had to type my admin password to run the VBS script host.
After picking my mods, I hit continue and it asked me to start the game and save, which I had forgotten to do. However, after I did this, hitting continue again caused BWS to fail without an error message.
I tried a couple more times with variations to try and pin down what was happening before I realized it was a problem with user contexts. I was running BWS as my admin user and running IWD as my regular user. I right clicked on the IWD exe and chose "Run as administrator" and saved the game. After that, BWS worked fine and installed the mods without further glitch.
I tried going finding the file online but to no avail. It seems like the websites are down for spellstudio or whoever published this
because this mod is labeled essential, I cannot proceed with the setup. Any help or advice?
Thanks!
https://nofile.io/f/4Um5PrjWv8M/BiG+World+Textpack+v17.0.1+ENGLISH.7z