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Story Mode is stuck on

BaptorBaptor Member Posts: 343
in Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
Every time I load my saved game, Story Mode is always on and I have to manually turn it off. I have never selected Story Mode and I make sure to save with it off, but when I load it back up, it's always on. Anyone else having this issue?

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  • CaptRoryCaptRory Member Posts: 1,660
    Check the file that records all of your options. If it is set to read only it won't change.
  • BaptorBaptor Member Posts: 343
    CaptRory said:

    Check the file that records all of your options. If it is set to read only it won't change.

    If you are talking about the .lua file, it's not Read Only.
  • CaptRoryCaptRory Member Posts: 1,660
    I'm talking about the file where you turn debug mode on, it holds all the other options.
  • BaptorBaptor Member Posts: 343
    CaptRory said:

    I'm talking about the file where you turn debug mode on, it holds all the other options.

    Yup. That's the .lua file now. And its not read only. I know this because I have the debug mode on.
  • Farmer_GeneralFarmer_General Member Posts: 2
    Having the same problem here. I have a really old save that loads fine and I can go into the options menu and change the difficulty slider.

    On all my other saves Story Mode is Automatically on. If I go into the options menu the slider for the difficulty setting is on Easy and grayed out and not able to interact with it with the mouse.

    If I quit to the main menu, the menu the game starts with, I can adjust the difficulty slider in the options menu to whatever I want. When I load a save Story Mode is back on with the option to change difficulty grayed out and are not able to interact with the slider.

    I have the cheats turned on in my Baldurs.ini file and I have also enabled the control cheats(Hold control and press a number of different keys for testing or cheating).

    I may have used one of those hold control then press another key to enter this story mode problem. I'm just not sure what combination it was.
  • Farmer_GeneralFarmer_General Member Posts: 2
    Ok I feel like a simpleton. If you go into your game options under Gameplay there is a button to click on the left side to turn story mode on or off.
  • BaptorBaptor Member Posts: 343
    Yes, my issue is different. Even if I turn it off on the Gameplay menu, it will automatically be back on the next time I load the game.
  • CaptRoryCaptRory Member Posts: 1,660
    Try setting it to false in the text file and saving it?
  • jrozjroz Member Posts: 1
    I was having the same problem. Solution I found was to open save file in EE Keeper, go to global variables, find BD_STORY_MODE and change the value to 0.
  • HazadeHazade Member Posts: 1
    jroz said:

    I was having the same problem. Solution I found was to open save file in EE Keeper, go to global variables, find BD_STORY_MODE and change the value to 0.

    I had the same issue. I solved it as jroz suggested but not using keeper. Load your story mode active savegame and clua this

    C:SetGlobal("BD_STORY_MODE","GLOBAL",0)

    hit enter and save your game. When you reload story mode is gone.
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