ERROR: Failure("SPIN920.SPL: read out of bounds")?

shylaman

I have been trying for a week to get a working install of EET going on my MacBook Pro. I have gotten this error several times with different mods or different components within mods during an EET install on MacOS. I am using @subtledoctor OS X Intsaller and the newest version of WEIDU. When I try to install Spell Revisions and the first component I get the error, but only if install as part of EET. Not of I install on unmoved game. I get the same error while trying to install reduced XP component for quests as part of EET Tweaks. I also got it on a couple of other mods. Anybody have an idea what it means?

Also, I get an error on other mods about a parsing.error. What is a parsing.error and how do I fix?

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ckoe

Well, might you be using the 2.5 version ? Then it might be the well documented problem introduced with 2.5 described in this thread ?

If yes, then the error message shown in the subject has most probably nothing to do with EET, but only with the patchlevel of the base game and eventually mods which have not been updated yet and/or workarounds which do not happen automatically in some installer :-)

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shylaman

I'll experiment with the fix posted in that thread, though I am not sure how NI works. As far as being well documented, I wouldn't go that far. One thread, not sticky noted, not in any of pinned threads about installing mods, etc., but buried in a thread only for SCS (which I wasn't having an issue with).

Yes, I am using the newest versiosn of SoD and BG2EE. I probably should have stayed with "if it ain't broke don't fix it", but since it has been six months or so since I last played I figured best to try to be current before a new run through. 12+ hours of installing and reinstalling trying different things .... it seems being current was a bad idea.

Anyhow, I appreciate pointing me in the right direction. I have never used SR before, thought I'd give it a whirl. Plus, was planning on cleric/thief and wanted to add Cyric kit to the priest, but Divine Remix isn't installing kits properly. Maybe a 2.5 issue, too?

ckoe

Hello shylaman,

with "well documented problem" I was refering only to the documentation of the issue you might be having. Unfortunalety the same really does not apply to the solution, I agree. I am waiting for an "automatic" in some fixpack, SCS/SR or tools similar to BWS, too. That's why I am monitoring this.

subtledoctor said:

ckoe said:

Well, might you be using the 2.5 version ? Then it might be the well documented problem introduced with 2.5 described in this thread

Yeah but:

shylaman said:

When I try to install Spell Revisions and the first component I get the error, but only if install as part of EET. Not of I install on unmoved [unmodded?] game.

If the mod works on BG2EE v2.5 but not on EET, then it seems like a problem with EET - not the 2.5 patch.

True. But the error fits. Anyway, k4thos appears to have started working again on it, so filing a bug report against EET might be in order then ?

shylaman

I tried again today. I exported the spells as per the thread suggested using NI and placed into /override. Still no luck. I posted on G3. I'll see if anybody knows a fix. Install order:

BGEE SoD
BGIIEE
BG1NPC
BG1NPC Music
BG1 NPCs
BG1 Unfinished Business *all

EET

Ascension
BGE Mini Quests and Encounters *all
Questpack
Sirene’s Call
Assassinations
Back to Brynnlaw

Amber
Angelo
Isra
Keto
de’Arnise Romance
Banter Pack
Crossmod Banter

Item Revisions
Spell Revisions

Unfinished Business
Alternatives
The Wheels of Prophecy
Thief Stronghold
Skip Chateau Irenicus
IWDification

Divine Remix
Song & Silence *all
Rogue Rebalancing
WSR
Refinements *shapeshifting fix

Tweaks Anthology
SCS
EET Tweaks
aTweaks
UITweaks *permanent thieving button
NPCEE

swit

subtledoctor said:

If the mod works on BG2EE v2.5 but not on EET, then it seems like a problem with EET - not the 2.5 patch.

@subtledoctor, such generalization is not warranted unless you compare BG2:EE with the same BG2 mods installed, not just testing it on clean game. I've just tried installing SR v4 Beta 15 on clean EET and there are no errors whatsoever, so it's not EET that is a problem here.

From what I see SPIN920 (Minor Spell Turning) is a spell changed by patch 2.5 and @shylaman installed several tweak mods that may have affected this spell. In different topic you've mentioned something about outdated detectable spells implementation in several mods, so maybe that is what is causing trouble here?

edit: looks like those tweak mods are actually later in install order. In such case maybe Big World Fixpack (if you used it) causes trouble. Or maybe Ascension messes up with spells (not sure if it uses detectable spells). Just a guess, no idea really. SR works fine without other mods in my EET installation though (on top of BG2:EE with patch v2.5.16.6)

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shylaman

I did use Big World Fixpack, but not on Spell Revisions. One of the threads or readme files listed the mods which need the fix pack to patch before using with EET. SR was not one of them, so I didn't run the Big World fix pack with it in the game directory.

I will try an install just with EET and SR and see what happens.

shylaman

Installed with EET only. Success. I swear I had tried this on one of my attempts. So, not sure what mod prior to it is messing things up ...

swit

@shylaman, just to be sure, since you're on Mac OS. Are you sure that none of the mods you install uses weidu 245? Weidu 246 changelog mentions "Fix regression in ALTER_EFFECT" - problem introduced in previous version.
@subtledoctor, shylaman uses your tool to install mods. Does it update all weidu files into latest versions or maybe it skips auto update?

subtledoctor said:

I think what happens is, some mods (including but possibly not limited to those with Detectable Spells) that patch SPIN920 and similar spells end up corrupting the files; and the next mod thst comes along and tryes to patch them throws errors. So probably need to examine load order and/or change-log and see which mods altered those files previous to the error.

yeah, change-log would be helpful here. Can you prepare terminal code for shylaman that prints the change-log? (I don't know mac os terminal syntax)

shylaman

After testing with various mods it appears to be related to ascension.

swit

@shylaman, technically you could probably solve this particular issue by copying SPIN920.SPL from ascension backup directory into override after installing it, but I wouldn't bother considering later in your load order there are more mods that use detectable spells (or similar patching, not sure if ds is the culprit here, maybe it's a problem with built-in weidu macros etc.) which, as @subtledoctor mentioned, will likely introduce the same issue. Some effort to figure out what exactly corrupts these spells edited in patch 2.5 is needed to fix those errors once and for all. (don't count on me doing the investigation, though :P)

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