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I have BG Tutu installed and everything installed successfully. It now seems every time I play this game - at some point my game will crash when travelling to a new area. Then no saved game will load so I have to start a new game. It is not a specific area either. One time, it crashed when travelling from Naskell to the Friendly Arm. Another time it crashed when travelling from Berghost to that one place where the Wizard lives (Can't remember the name). At this rate it looks like I am unable to finish the game at all due to this technical problem.

Has this happened to anyone before? I have tried uninstalling an reinstalling both BG and BG Tutu with no success. I'm hoping it is just an easy fix to get my saved games back but more likely there is a patch I need to load even though I thought I was all udated in that area.

Any suggestions?

Correction: I have EasyTutu installed - not BGTutu.

It's happened to me after visiting Beregost, as the readme file that came with Tutu warned. Follow the instructions in the readme, as I did after getting burned once, and that should be sorted.

Travelling from Naskel to the FAI though, shouldn't have happened, not terminally anyway. Sure I've had crashes, who hasn't, the game was made by BugOware, but not ones that have caused me start over, apart from the Tutu specific Beregost bug. In all other instances, the auto save always got me back on takc.

Thanks for the quick reply. The research I did on the Internet turned up the following steps to get a saved game back.

1. Back up the saved game you want to fix (by copying and pasting the folder somewhere else).
2. Download SETUP-Crashfix.tp2 and save it in your game folder.
3. Download WeiDU.exe (or copy an existing WeiDU or a mod's .exe) and rename it SETUP-Crashfix.exe in your game folder.
4. Load up Near Infinity in your game folder.
5. Expand the Save folder and expand the saved game to be fixed.
6. Click on BALDUR.SAV and Decompress it.
(http://sony.dynalias.com/bg/savfix1.gif)
7. Toggle to your game folder in your OS (e.g. with Windows Explorer). There should now be a subfolder containing your decompressed saved game files (e.g. C:\Games\EasyTutu\_000000001-Test1\).
8. Locate the file FW3300.ARE (or AR6700.ARE for BGT or AR3300.ARE for BG1) in this subfolder. Copy and paste it one level up in your main game folder.
9. Run SETUP-Crashfix.exe. If you've done everything correctly, you get a message indicating a successful fix and the Crash Fixer uninstalls itself.
10. Copy the fixed FW3300.ARE and paste it into your temporary decompressed subfolder (the one starting with an underscore).
11. Toggle back to Near Infinity and Compress to rebuild the .SAV file (click Overwrite, OK when prompted).
12. Close Near Infinity and fire up Tutu (or BGT or BG1).
13. Enjoy a crash-free Beregost. Visit the many pubs. Order a round for the house at each one.

I am on step 9 and not sure how to run the Weidu file I downloaded which was renamed to Setup-Crashfix.exe. If I just click on the executable, I get a command window with numerous options. I run weidu from the command windows and I'm not sure which option I need to use. Is anyone familiar with Weidu and can help me fix the corrupted FW3300.ARE file. I would like to try these instructions first since it looks like I may be able to continue the game. I just have never used weidu before so could use some help