Installation problems

Andy Strawn · Post by **Andy Strawn** » Mon Jun 10, 2002 3:08 am

This always happens: whenever I try to install the game, the setup program tells me my files don't match and that I should contact an administrator!?! I press the "ignore" button - otherwise the game wouldn't install - right? During gameplay I get all sorts of errors: blue screen, exits without any sort of message, assertion errors. Oh yeah, lots of these.

Can somebody tell me why my game is corrupted all the time? By the way I do have the patch and no mods. I only use CTRL-Y when something just pops up out of thin air - which annoys me very much because it IS annoying - like in the very beginning, after the encounter with the djinni, there are goblins in the next hallway but sometimes they aren't, in which case they pop up out of nowhere when you exit the room with the sewer golem. Could this rather justified use of CTRL-Ying be messing up my files??

As much as I played computer games, BG is the worst when it comes to reliability. This game is simply too complicated! What's all this "console" and "global variables" and "fuctions" for? I mean look at Starcraft, you could build a bunker on top of your command center, but hey, at least you don't get kicked out of the game.

Rattman · Post by **Rattman** » Mon Jun 10, 2002 3:54 am

Ctrl-Y is doing no harm lots of people do it with out any trouble

after the encounter with the djinni, there are goblins in the next hallway but sometimes they aren't, in which case they pop up out of nowhere when you exit the room with the sewer golem

this happens to me as well so i guess it's suppost to

BG is the worst when it comes to reliability

yip

in fact i can not do a full installation because it crashes at 90% every time so i have to do a recommended instlation and it only works at about 3 out of 10 times i try and install the game (it keeps asking for CD5??)

any way if you ask me i think you will either have to fix something with your computer of give up

sorry

Astafas · Post by **Astafas** » Mon Jun 10, 2002 4:10 am

Originally posted by Rattman
in fact i can not do a full installation because it crashes at 90% every time so i have to do a recommended instlation and it only works at about 3 out of 10 times i try and install the game (it keeps asking for CD5??)

Have you tried copying the discs manually and then edit the search way in the Baldur.ini-file?

Mr Flibble · Post by **Mr Flibble** » Mon Jun 10, 2002 4:43 am

Originally posted by Andy Strawn
This always happens: whenever I try to install the game, the setup program tells me my files don't match and that I should contact an administrator!?! I press the "ignore" button - otherwise the game wouldn't install - right? During gameplay I get all sorts of errors: blue screen, exits without any sort of message, assertion errors. Oh yeah, lots of these.

Are you using Windows 2000 or XP? If so, download the latest compatability updates from Microsoft.

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Mon Jun 10, 2002 7:26 am

Originally posted by Andy Strawn

This always happens: whenever I try to install the game, the setup program tells me my files don't match and that I should contact an administrator!?! I press the "ignore" button - otherwise the game wouldn't install - right? During gameplay I get all sorts of errors: blue screen, exits without any sort of message, assertion errors. Oh yeah, lots of these.

Try turning of the DMA on your CDRom drive and reinstalling

The installation will be slower, but you should not have a problem with files 'not matching' or assertion errors...