Beginning again after a two-year layoff
CharlestonianTemplar
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in BG:EE Mods
I'm wanting to get back into it... I finished a completionist, no-reload of BG and BGII in August 2015 and haven't played since.
So, my disk drive isn't working, meaning I can't use my heavily modded BG Tutu and BGII SoA/ToB games. Until I can get a new disk or laptop... a priority, I guess I'll play BGEE/BGIIEE. I've had them since they came out but never really played them, preferring my own, personally modded versions.
So, I need help. I see the modding posts, but can't find the single repository of all mods available, to date, for BGEE and BGEEII. Can someone point me to them?
Also, I assume I can use the BGT install guide/order is also relevant to EE mods?
Thanks. I know this is a tired old question.
So, my disk drive isn't working, meaning I can't use my heavily modded BG Tutu and BGII SoA/ToB games. Until I can get a new disk or laptop... a priority, I guess I'll play BGEE/BGIIEE. I've had them since they came out but never really played them, preferring my own, personally modded versions.
So, I need help. I see the modding posts, but can't find the single repository of all mods available, to date, for BGEE and BGEEII. Can someone point me to them?
Also, I assume I can use the BGT install guide/order is also relevant to EE mods?
Thanks. I know this is a tired old question.
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Bonus info: These are the mods I consider absolutely indispensable to a good game. This is for BG1ee:SOD.
This'll take you a few hours to install manually - the first time, at least.
Unpack all mods, run bws fixpack! - then install mods
BG1 Mini Quests and Encounters
BG1 NPC
BG1 Unfinished Business v23
Rogue Rebalancing v.4.91
More Styles for Mages v. 1.55
Spell Revisions v.4 beta 15
Tome and Blood v.0.7
Golem Construction v.5.3
Faiths and Powers v.0.74s
Might and Guile v.3.7.3
CDTweaks v.4
SCS v.30 (needs bws fixpack!)
Scales of Balance 5.8.5
Kjeron's "Restrict specialist spell slots" (found in UI modding section on this forum)
NPC_EE 3.1.2
Item Randomizer
Hidden Gameplay Options (found in UI modding section on this forum)
Do you know if the creator of 'Hard Times' mod ever made it available for BGEE?
BG EE 2.0 and Siege of Dragonspear Compatible Mods
List of BG2EE Compatible Mods
As many mods and tweaks as I have in my BG Tutu and BGII SoA/ToB, it was overwhelming to think about starting from scratch again. Ugh.
Playing a bit while I figure it out.
I've successfully installed NPC Proj/music, Gavin & isra NPCs, BG UB, Deities of Faerun... tested it/ All is good.
Now trying to add SCS. Instructions say I have to install BigWorldFixpack first. How? I've found the BWF, just don't see an executable file in there.
I've tried running SCS, and sure enough, I can't finish before I get an error. So, it appears it does need the fixpack. Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I uncompressed BWF into my 00766 folder but that doesn't do anything and, again, there's no exectutable to run.
Thanks, swear, this is my last question. CT
Hopefully that helps you out.
I thought I had the correct batch file but when I uncompressed it last night, I couldn't figure out how to install it. Usually, I unpack them and there is an executable and a folder. In this case it was just the batch file but I figured it out after I read your post. I was unpacking it into the wrong folder by mistake.
Penny for your thoughts on any EE mods you're enjoying. I don't know if you remember, but I was always played vanilla (with lots of mods). First time really using EE although I have had both since 2012-13, whenever they came out.
Good to hear from you and thanks for the help. CT
I can go all the way through the components but when I hit 'Enter', after I've made all my selections, it starts running through the copying and patching but then it rolls back. I get the error message:
"Core [initialize] component not installed - all other components require this component"
What am I missing or what doing wrong? CT
Makes sense. I haven't played in two years. Thanks doc. I'll give kreso's version a whirl.
Wait! How do you NOT use the auto installer? I'm not that well versed. I always just click the 'executable' and follow directions. How do you NOT do that?
BGEE Compatible mods list
BG2EE Compatible mods list
Hope it helps.
This is excellent @Cahir. Thank you.
Good thing is, I'm retired now. I do a 'repair install' and start modding again anytime.
CT
I've used Baldur's '...Gate Enhanced Edition/Data/00766,' and 'Libraries/Documents/Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition/Save/'. The latter is where my game saves to and I have no problem with it when I want to play a saved game.
Regardless, EEKeeper is not seeing them. Any help is appreciated. Thanks, CT
For example for retail versions it would be like this for me:
...\Baldur's Gate Enhanced Edition\Data\00766
...\Baldur's Gate II Enhanced Edition\Data\00783
...\Baldur's Gate Siege of Dragonspear\Data\00806
...\Icewind Dale Enhanced Edition\Data\00798
And the "Saves" paths:
... \Documents\Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition\save
... \Documents\Baldur's Gate II - Enhanced Edition\save
... \Documents\Icewind Dale - Enhanced Edition\save
But for the beta versions it would be like this (I have these on different HDD partition):
... \BeamDog\Games\00764
... \BeamDog\Games\00546
... \BeamDog\Games\00794
I suspect the "Saves" folders are the same for each versions of the game.
As you can see these 00xxx folders are diferent for each version of the game. It could be confused a little if you have mupltiple versions installed.
I have the path correctly then. Just not showing up. I'll keep plugging away. Usually I figure these things out. CT
I can't get it to install, though. It goes through like it's installing fine but at the end it keeps rolling back because:
ERROR locating resource for 'copy'
Resource [%Beregost%n.wed] not found in KEY file
[./chitlin.key]
Stopping installation because of error.
etc...
I am almost finished with all my mod, fix, tweaks installations. other than noting that this should have likely been the first thing I installed, I see nothing wrong. CHITLIN.KEY is there and everything else has installed smoothly and without error.
Y'all know I'm not a modder but a user/consumer, so I don't know how to figure this out. I could easily reinstall everything and start with this fix but if I can avoid that I'd like to - ready to actually PLAY the game.
Sorry, thanks in advance for any guidance. CT
1.Yellow colour means that mod is compatible with EET.
2. "Forum" - redirects to the mod forum/thread. I have tried to link to threads where there is more info about the mod (i.e if there are couple of threads on different modding sites)
3. "Strona" - redirects to the official mod site.
4. Download links are on the left most column (could be several mirrors if available)