BG full-installation question

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OK, I had installed BG rather hastily, and my memory is blurry, thanks to my heart racing so fast during the installation, but I suspect I did not make quite a 'full' installation.

I think I chose the reccomended installation, it said it required 500 MB and all. But it installed only from CD1, and that was it.

Now when I travel to a new area, it frequently asks for a CD swap, and needless to say, it is annoying. IS there a way to make a real FULL installation like in BG2, to avoid CD-swapping all the time? Just how? Or is it supposed to be played like this allways? Like PST? (it is annoying in that game too!)

Is there a way to upgrade my current installation, or do I have to uninstall (nooo!) my game and re-install? In this case, I hope my old save games will still be usable when I reinstal? I had no mods, only the official patch.

I do not have ToTSC, if this matters.

Any insight would be appreciated. Thanks all in advance!

 

You just have to take a copy (AFAIK) of your savegame, and then uninstall everything remembering wich mods you used. Make a custom installation and choose everything to be installed. Then install mods again and lastly put your copied savegame in the right place. I think this shoulds do it.

 

So, I can full-install with custom installation. Then I will not have to swap CDs ever again, right? I will do it then, thanks!

 

Yes, a full install requires only that you have the one CD to prove you own the game, and you never have to switch CDs again.

 

Yes you shouldn't have to change CDs anymore. Good luck!

Edit: He! Just beaten

 

Thanks again! How I missed this right at the start, beats me. I was just SOOO excited!

 

With how old my cd's are I worry about one of them becoming unusable. I really don't want to buy another set -- so I just look around on the internet and find a 'fix' that allows me not to use any cd after the full install....

 

Umm, I think it may be illegal, but my friend has found a 'fix' to run BG2 without CD. I am sure you can find it for BG1 as well, if you look VERY hard. Or maybe use virtual CD programs? I never get the hang of these though. Sorry I can not be of much help!

 

I told my friend so, but he never seems to care. Who will sue him anyway? This is sad.

 

well you may be able to make a copy of your cd's...

 

The old BG1 cd's have no copy protections so you can make direct copies of them with any cd recording program.

Also, if you do not want to reinstall you can also copy the cd's onto harddrive and just edit the baldur.ini to refer t the new correct path instead of doing reinstall and then making one humongous install folder. I know most prefer to have full install, personally i prefer this method, as it allows me to delete 2gb of cd's without removing game w/mods and savegames etc that only takes 500mb. And i can always just copy them back in later again. This works in all effects just like a full install, in that you only need to have a cd i the cdrom to start the game.

Alternativelly, the new DVD version got cd1-5 on a single DVD, and only the expantion pack on a separate dvd. not a bad buy for the price, 10-15 euro or something ?

 

Not sure if I should start a new thread with with this problem, but it fits the topic.
Trying to do a full re-install of BG1 and I get to CD5 and Microsoft throws a fit (over and over). Is it possible to do a custom install 1 CD at a time and have it come out working?

Win XP SP2, all updates

 

I hate to say it, but it sounds like one of your CD's may be damaged.

 

I have a way of fixing CDs... It works like a charm..

Rub deoderent (this is a wax) on the back of the cd. Use a soft cloth or tissue and rub gently until the white residue is off the back of the cd. The CD should now work like new.

I have been using this trick on all my music CD I thought were permentally damage and surprisingly they are all working great and no skipping. The same holds true for 2 of my PS2 games.

 

The DVD version believe it or not has been out as long as the CD version. That's what I bought origionally and then had to buy the CD version. It's just becoming a more popular format now.

I'm not sure about the newer ones for sale but mine is old enough that there are differences in some of the maps that the long time players would surely notice even though they don't affect the game play.

 

The point it cr*** out is at the moment it's supposed to ask for CD1 and begin the intro movies. At the moment, BG1 is running and has been overwritten with BG Trilogy (Weidu). Everything is going well as I am in Beregost. I'm beginning to wonder if I should have added Harder BG1 patch since I'm mowing through everything as a Druidic Sorc.

 

The Druidic Sorcerer kit was a bit overpowered from what I remember of silverstar testing it. Though if you want to know more about that or BG Trilogy you should probably look or ask around in the BGII/ToB forums.

 

-I got Baldur's Gate the moment it came out, the third game I ever bought(First one was Settlers II, second was AoE I think), that copy wore out three years ago. I immediately got another copy and recently bought the Forgotten Realms Deluxe Edition which means I have three copies of the game. With the two cd copies I had to switch CD's when entering certain areas when I first went there, but not afterwards(Probably ran from the cache afterwards) and I haven't used the DVD copy yet.