More Dragonspear Compatibility (now with Tweak Anthology!)

[RaygunCourtesan]

I recently added Siege of Dragonspear to my tweak-pack modded Steam version of BG:EE and im having issues. Many item descriptions have been replaced with lines of dialog and NPC's are spouting lines they clearly shouldn't.

A scouring of the Beamdog and G3 forums hasn't turned up anything to address this problem specifically. A few things seem issue adjacent or gesture vaguely in this direction but never actually come that far.

I've installed modmerge and reinstalled the tweaks (this time using the Anthology) but im still having the same issues. Playing the game without tweaks makes me sad in my heartplace so id appreciate it if someone could tell me what im doing wrong.

[Jarno Mikkola]

Actually there's MULTITUDE of these threads.

First of all, the install folder CAN*T be in the C drive, or the only possible location it can be then if you insist on having it on the C drive, is the C:\Users\<windowsusername>\ -sub folders. as there you can "play around" in the todays operation systems. But that playground also can be made unusable by various antivirus protection agents as they draw the same cheese the Windows does to the whole computer by setting up a sandbox that makes it all kinds of mod castles to be sand and it's a hurricane season. And the worst part is, you can only turn the feature off by uninstalling the antivirus program as there's no other controls for it. At least if you are unlucky(as it depends on the AV program).

 

So to fix this, make sure you don't have a sandbox, then install BG1EE, and the SoD to the same drive, then run the modmerger in that folder. And only then Tweaks Anthology in that folder.

[RaygunCourtesan]

...sorry, I am really struggling to follow what you're saying here. And if there're multitudinous threads answering my question could you provide a link to any of them?

The installation directory for steam BG is Program Files(x86)/Steam/SteamApps/Common/Baldur's Gate... the only thing stored in the Users folder is the save and portrait data. So im not sure what you're talking about with sandboxes and what have you.

[Jarno Mikkola]

The installation directory for steam BG is Program Files(x86)/Steam/SteamApps/Common/Baldur's Gate... the only thing stored in the Users folder is the save and portrait data. So im not sure what you're talking about with sandboxes and what have you.

The DEFAULT directory for your Steam games is the C:\Program Files(x86)\Steam\SteamApps\Common\Baldur's Gate\ -directory, BUT you need to change that ! Steam allows this, you just select a new install destination during the install process.

And just like you noticed, the computer saves the data -it actually alters- in the Users folder sub folders... the thing is you need to use that folder as your Game install folder as the games code is from 2000, years before the Windows pooled the jerk move where it only allows the user to modify the content of that single folder while disallowing all others to protect large companies and networks from viruses... yes it is kinda good move from them, but you need to know how to not get sandbox-ed by it.

 

Multitude threads... how many do you want them ? 1, 2 , 3, ... 1000+

I really don't want to go look for them.

[RaygunCourtesan]

All alterations to a file require saving it, discs must be written to. Otherwise its just a change in memory. I have no idea what you're talking about with the idea that you can't alter folders anywhere other than /Users/ because that is just...categorically wrong. Do you have any evidence to support this? Perhaps there's a language barrier but from the way you're presenting the information its about as credible as a faked moon landing.

In any event reinstalling the program, applying modmerge and the tweak anthology (all in the default installation directory, mind) in that order has resolved the problem.

[Jarno Mikkola]

Go into your C:\Users\<windowsusername>\AppData -folder... that you can only find if you go into the folder options and enable the Show hidden files and folders -option. As the folder you are looking for is a hidden folder.

It contains the changes you have made to the rest of the folders in the C drives files. The weidu.exe that all the mods use to install their content can't see the changes as it's not programmed to Operation System base standard/feature that came ~10 years after the weidu's first version came to be coded.