Technical question.

Pellinore · Post by **Pellinore** » Sun Apr 17, 2011 3:00 pm

I recently had to uninstall several games (BG1, BG2, IWD and others) due to some storage problems. Now that I have more room on my drive I tried to reinstall all my games. They all reinstalled great except for my Black Isle games. BG 1&2 and Icewind Dale all will not reinstall due to 'line assertion failure" and a couple other error messages. When I try to run the uninstall again it says that the file needed to do it is missing.

What do I do? I'm not smart enough to go in and manually uninstall programs

Thanks.

prune1 · Post by **prune1** » Sun Apr 17, 2011 5:41 pm

Here's a manual uninstallation guide, taken, I believe, from the bioware website:

How To Manually Uninstall BG2

If you delete the folder where BG2 is installed without doing a proper installation, or have other problems getting
the installer to run because it thinks the game is already installed, you may need the following procedure,
which outlines how to manually uninstall BG2.

Here is the procedure to manually uninstall BG2: Throne of Bhaal. This will also uninstall BG2: Shadows of Amn.
To start regedit, go to "Start", then "Run", type "regedit" (without the quotes), and hit enter.
Be careful when using regedit, there is no "undo" option, and all changes are automatically saved.

1. Edit the system registry using the regedit utility. Remove the following keys under
"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App Paths\":

* BG2Main.exe
* bg2ep202.exe

2. Remove the following keys under "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Uninstall\":

* English: {B8C3B479-1716-11D5-968A-0050BA84F5F7}
* French: {43D4C77E-4339-11D5-96E7-0050BA84F5F7}
* German: {5B09F344-4406-11D5-96E8-0050BA84F5F7}
* Italian: {C3817924-440B-11D5-96E8-0050BA84F5F7}
* Spanish: {68F40945-449D-11D5-96E9-0050BA84F5F7}

3. Go to your Program Files directory and find the hidden directory "InstallShield Installation Information" and
delete the directories labeled:

* English: {8DAE4336-2B71-11D4-9A6C-006067325E47} and {B8C3B479-1716-11D5-968A-0050BA84F5F7}
* French: {43D4C77E-4339-11D5-96E7-0050BA84F5F7} and {5E30BDEB-9307-11D4-9AE0-006067325E47}
* German: {5B09F344-4406-11D5-96E8-0050BA84F5F7} and {5E30BDEB-9307-11D4-9AE0-006067325E47}
* Italian: {C3817924-440B-11D5-96E8-0050BA84F5F7} and {5E30BDEB-9307-11D4-9AE0-006067325E47}
* Spanish: {68F40945-449D-11D5-96E9-0050BA84F5F7} and {5E30BDEB-9307-11D4-9AE0-006067325E47}

4. Manually delete all the files and directories created by the previous installation attempts (this should return
the system to its state before the original installation attempt) and try again to install from the CD.

Hope it helps. I've used the procedure before, and it works fine.

Pellinore · Post by **Pellinore** » Sun Apr 17, 2011 6:17 pm

Thanks for the response.

I did all that and there is nothing left but it still won't let me uninstall...

prune1 · Post by **prune1** » Sun Apr 17, 2011 6:41 pm

Pellinore wrote:Thanks for the response.

I did all that and there is nothing left but it still won't let me uninstall...

That IS the uninstallation. Have you tried installing it now?

Or maybe you meant to type install rather than uninstall? If so, not sure what's wrong. Hopefully someone else can come along and provide advice.

Pellinore · Post by **Pellinore** » Sun Apr 17, 2011 6:58 pm

I tried reinstalling and the little box with play/configure pops up rather than uninstall. If I click on anything I get an error message like "Line assertion failure" or whatever...

prune1 · Post by **prune1** » Sun Apr 17, 2011 7:27 pm

Well, here's something that mentions line assertion failure:

BioWare Forums: Can't load ToB. Assertion failure: Hd0GMosc.bif.

If that does not work, my best advice is to browse around the forums/google the problem, while you wait for a response from someone who knows better.