Trouble installing TofS Coast on XP? help
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Trouble installing TofS Coast on XP? help
I broke my leg a few months ago and i'm still layed up, i thought it would be a great oportunity to run through Baldurs gate 1 and 2 again. I was able to install baldurs gate, but when i tried to install the expansion i recieved an error 112 saying the files could not be decompressed from the disc. I vaguely remember having problems with this before but i do not remember how to get it working. Any help would be greatly appriciated. I did a full install of BG1 on the hard drive so i wouldn't have to change the disks all the time. Thanks its nice to get to lvl 8
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no i didn't, i reinstalled BG with the regular install and the patch then it loaded the tales cd properly. I am trying to figure out how to have all the content on the game now without having to cd switch cause its a pain. Do u just copy the whole CD# file or put the Data in the date file on the main thing and the same with movies? its been a while, loaned this game to a buddy and haven't had it for like 3 yrs till now. Thanks
When you install the game, you select the Custom Install and select all the options, then the CD's shouldn't be required. Or at least that's the case when BGTutu is installed, not sure otherwise.
I wouldn't be surprised if there were .CAB files and similar then need to be uncompressed first, and you'd need some kind of seperate program to do that. WinZip doesn't usually work, evn though the format is supposed to be supported.
Try running the install program using the compatability settings (through right-clicking the setup program) and try each option. That may help.
Have you tried clicking open on the disc and just copying all the stuff that is in there and paste it into the BG1 folder?
I wouldn't be surprised if there were .CAB files and similar then need to be uncompressed first, and you'd need some kind of seperate program to do that. WinZip doesn't usually work, evn though the format is supposed to be supported.
Try running the install program using the compatability settings (through right-clicking the setup program) and try each option. That may help.
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Hopefully this won't get me into any legal trouble, as I'm not promoting piracy so much as a way to make the game run faster/smoother, but whatever...
This may be overkill, but if you have a severe abundance of free hard drive space, you can copy the play discs (or more specifically, just the "CD#" folders) from each of the 6 disks directly onto your hard drive, then edit the baldur.ini file (using notepad) in the Game directory so that it sees the copied version of the disks on the hard drive instead of the CD-ROM. The lines you change are all right at the top of the file. If you installed the game in the default location and copied the folders off the disks directly into the gameplay directory, the changes to the Baldur.ini file would look something like this (IIRC that is-- don't have it in front of me atm. Also, note that C: = Hard drive, D: = CD-ROM):
Change this:
CD1=D:\CD1\
CD2=D:\CD2\
CD3=D:\CD3\
CD4=D:\CD4\
CD5=D:\CD5\
CD6=D:\CD6\
To this:
CD1=C:\Baldur's Gate\CD1\
CD2=C:\Baldur's Gate\CD2\
CD3=C:\Baldur's Gate\CD3\
CD4=C:\Baldur's Gate\CD4\
CD5=C:\Baldur's Gate\CD5\
CD6=C:\Baldur's Gate\CD6\
Incidentally, if you copy the disks prior to installation(Disk 1 and the TOSC disk will have to be copied in full-- I'd suggest copying these into their own folders), you can install them from the hard drive, which cuts the installation time down to a fraction of what it normally takes, sets the baldur.ini file mappings to what they're supposed to be (again, IIRC... don't have it in front of me atm), and makes in-game loading times nearly isntantaneous-- without using third party programs. The easiest way to start once the disks are copied is to run the "Autorun" application from the directory you copied Disk 1 into. That should start the launcher as if you put the actual disk in the CD-ROM. When it asks for the other CDs, click on browse, then choose the path that selects the appropriate "CD#" folder as the one to look in.
If you edit/copy anything like I said here, note that you'll still need the TOSC disk to load up the game, but after that you shouldn't need anything.
Hopefully this won't get me into any legal trouble, as I'm not promoting piracy so much as a way to make the game run faster/smoother, but whatever...
This may be overkill, but if you have a severe abundance of free hard drive space, you can copy the play discs (or more specifically, just the "CD#" folders) from each of the 6 disks directly onto your hard drive, then edit the baldur.ini file (using notepad) in the Game directory so that it sees the copied version of the disks on the hard drive instead of the CD-ROM. The lines you change are all right at the top of the file. If you installed the game in the default location and copied the folders off the disks directly into the gameplay directory, the changes to the Baldur.ini file would look something like this (IIRC that is-- don't have it in front of me atm. Also, note that C: = Hard drive, D: = CD-ROM):
Change this:
CD1=D:\CD1\
CD2=D:\CD2\
CD3=D:\CD3\
CD4=D:\CD4\
CD5=D:\CD5\
CD6=D:\CD6\
To this:
CD1=C:\Baldur's Gate\CD1\
CD2=C:\Baldur's Gate\CD2\
CD3=C:\Baldur's Gate\CD3\
CD4=C:\Baldur's Gate\CD4\
CD5=C:\Baldur's Gate\CD5\
CD6=C:\Baldur's Gate\CD6\
Incidentally, if you copy the disks prior to installation(Disk 1 and the TOSC disk will have to be copied in full-- I'd suggest copying these into their own folders), you can install them from the hard drive, which cuts the installation time down to a fraction of what it normally takes, sets the baldur.ini file mappings to what they're supposed to be (again, IIRC... don't have it in front of me atm), and makes in-game loading times nearly isntantaneous-- without using third party programs. The easiest way to start once the disks are copied is to run the "Autorun" application from the directory you copied Disk 1 into. That should start the launcher as if you put the actual disk in the CD-ROM. When it asks for the other CDs, click on browse, then choose the path that selects the appropriate "CD#" folder as the one to look in.
If you edit/copy anything like I said here, note that you'll still need the TOSC disk to load up the game, but after that you shouldn't need anything.