[txa1265]

Hi:

I am trying to replay BG2 & ToB on my MacBook Pro (2nd gen). I have managed to do a full install, and get both games installed. When I go to start, I insert the ToB disk and it seems to start (i.e. startup screens, gets to BG2 / ToB select screen) and then asks for the BG2 disk #1, and doesn't seem happy when I insert that one. If I try to start from the BG2 disc #1 it immediately complains about the wrong disc ... then I am back to te hsame point again. I can never get it past this point. Is there anything additional I need to do? I've never played on my Intel machine before - is this the issue?

[ijedi42]

txa1265, on July 10th 2007, 12:15 PM, said:

Hi:

I am trying to replay BG2 & ToB on my MacBook Pro (2nd gen). I have managed to do a full install, and get both games installed. When I go to start, I insert the ToB disk and it seems to start (i.e. startup screens, gets to BG2 / ToB select screen) and then asks for the BG2 disk #1, and doesn't seem happy when I insert that one. If I try to start from the BG2 disc #1 it immediately complains about the wrong disc ... then I am back to te hsame point again. I can never get it past this point. Is there anything additional I need to do? I've never played on my Intel machine before - is this the issue?

When u did the full install, i assume you did the regular install with disk 1 then did the full install with disks 2-4. After that you shouldn't update SoA. Do the full install for ToB and then update ToB. The other thing you should do is go into spotlight and make sure under permissions you exclude teh baldurs gate 2 folder. I found out spotlight really causes problems for the game. This isnt listed on the macplay site but as soon as i have ever done that almost all problems for BG2 have gone away for me.

[ijedi42]

actually i am having one issue in bg2 tob. I cant seem to access the umar hills. I have installed the update that was supposed to correct any problems with umar hills. quite weird.

[txa1265]

OK, I'll try that - I have all of my discs, made sure I removed everything that was installed, and downloaded the update from MacPlay. Time to try again! Thanks for the advice!

[ijedi42]

txa1265, on July 11th 2007, 01:55 PM, said:

OK, I'll try that - I have all of my discs, made sure I removed everything that was installed, and downloaded the update from MacPlay. Time to try again! Thanks for the advice!

ok after doing a quick look around on the net i found this solution if you cant get umar hills to load as well.
just follow the instructions in the reply where you have to copy the 2 .bif files from cd4 data folder to cd3 data folder. Note you have to duplicate them not move them:)





http://forums.biowar...t...13&forum=10

[ijedi42]

ijedi42, on July 11th 2007, 01:57 PM, said:

ok after doing a quick look around on the net i found this solution if you cant get umar hills to load as well.
just follow the instructions in the reply where you have to copy the 2 .bif files from cd4 data folder to cd3 data folder. Note you have to duplicate them not move them:)
http://forums.biowar...t...13&forum=10

do any of you run the game with 3d graphics enabled? i heard with os x that it crashes and slows down alot, wondering if this is still true with 10.4?

[JoAT]

ijedi42, on July 12th 2007, 03:59 AM, said:

do any of you run the game with 3d graphics enabled? i heard with os x that it crashes and slows down alot, wondering if this is still true with 10.4?

I have run BGII with 3D on an iMac Core Duo under 10.4.8 with the 256MB VRAM Radeon and it was very fast an fluid with no crashes.

Running with 3D on a B&W G3 under 10.2.8 with the original 16MB VRAM Rage 128 and had horrible performance and lots of crashes.

YMMV, so try it out on your system.

JoAT

[txa1265]

Just wanted to reply and let you know that the suggestions worked great and the game is up and running! Thanks again

[ijedi42]

txa1265, on July 12th 2007, 12:10 PM, said:

Just wanted to reply and let you know that the suggestions worked great and the game is up and running! Thanks again

awesome glad you get to experience it:) such a great game, my #2 all time( after tie fighter).

[txa1265]

ijedi42, on July 14th 2007, 09:27 PM, said:

awesome glad you get to experience it:) such a great game, my #2 all time( after tie fighter).

Oh - I have played ~4-5 times between Mac and PC before ... just wanted to play through it again.

Now I have save game issues - it exits with a save error (actually it gives me a choice) but can't do a full or quick save.

[Gorilym]

txa1265, on July 15th 2007, 11:18 AM, said:

Now I have save game issues - it exits with a save error (actually it gives me a choice) but can't do a full or quick save.

This is a well-known bug: check for the presence of a file called 'temp' in your BG2 folder; if it's there, delete it and create a 'temp' folder in its place. Alternatively, just install the BG2 Fixpack; it fixes this automatically. If you haven't done so already, it's also a good idea to disable Spotlight indexing of the BG2 folder.

[ijedi42]

Gorilym, on July 15th 2007, 09:56 AM, said:

This is a well-known bug: check for the presence of a file called 'temp' in your BG2 folder; if it's there, delete it and create a 'temp' folder in its place. Alternatively, just install the BG2 Fixpack; it fixes this automatically. If you haven't done so already, it's also a good idea to disable Spotlight indexing of the BG2 folder.

ahh yes i forgot about that problem to, temp file or folder just make a new one:)

[txa1265]

Thanks again ... now I'm back to having to choose between Gothic 2 on the PC and BG2 on the Mac ... ahh, such choices

[ijedi42]

txa1265, on July 15th 2007, 03:02 PM, said:

Thanks again ... now I'm back to having to choose between Gothic 2 on the PC and BG2 on the Mac ... ahh, such choices

Has anyone played this in leopard. I cant see any of the game text to navigate the menu's now and when i quit, my documents and downloads stacks are all messed up.

[dibsy]

ijedi42, on July 10th 2007, 06:26 PM, said:

When u did the full install, i assume you did the regular install with disk 1 then did the full install with disks 2-4. After that you shouldn't update SoA. Do the full install for ToB and then update ToB. The other thing you should do is go into spotlight and make sure under permissions you exclude teh baldurs gate 2 folder. I found out spotlight really causes problems for the game. This isnt listed on the macplay site but as soon as i have ever done that almost all problems for BG2 have gone away for me.

Hi,

I followed your posts with interest and have finally managed to successfully install BG II and expansion in OSX. My only problem now is when I try and start a new game it crashes on me. Does anyone know how to resolve this problem

cheers

P.S. been dying to play this game ever since i got it heard its one of the best rpgs out there.

[Thain Esh Kelch]

dibsy, on March 23rd 2008, 01:56 PM, said:

Hi,

I followed your posts with interest and have finally managed to successfully install BG II and expansion in OSX. My only problem now is when I try and start a new game it crashes on me. Does anyone know how to resolve this problem

cheers

P.S. been dying to play this game ever since i got it heard its one of the best rpgs out there.

Be sure to turn Spotlight off for the BG2 folder - It somehow breaks the game when saving.. It might be related.

[dibsy]

Thain Esh Kelch, on March 23rd 2008, 03:00 PM, said:

Be sure to turn Spotlight off for the BG2 folder - It somehow breaks the game when saving.. It might be related.

I heard about that and already added the BGII file to the privacy section of spotligh in preferences still no luck though

[Dark_Archon]

dibsy, on March 23rd 2008, 08:56 AM, said:

P.S. been dying to play this game ever since i got it heard its one of the best rpgs out there.

It is.

Have you patched the game to the most recent version? I'm running the game in 10.5.2 on an Intel Mac, and it runs as well as it ever has on OS X.

[dibsy]

Dark_Archon, on March 24th 2008, 03:32 PM, said:

It is.

Have you patched the game to the most recent version? I'm running the game in 10.5.2 on an Intel Mac, and it runs as well as it ever has on OS X.

I have and still no luck, although I tried another method which I read about on a different thread. To copy all of the CD 2-5 data files in to the main SoA Data folder, this time i got as far as the character creation screen, made a new character and subsequently had it crash on me . I have temporarily uninstalled it from my harddrive. I would have installed using classic but unfortunately when i recently reformatted my computer i lost classic due to using my dads startup disc, mine's in a another country

[devSin]

If you crashed when selecting a character class, that's a known bug. You can select Monk, Sorcerer, Barbarian, or Mage without crashing (any class which doesn't bring up the kit selection screen). This isn't 100% consistent, so you can just keep trying and hope that it will eventually work; there is no workaround for this issue.

If moving the data/ folders around solved your startup issue, make sure you have "3D Acceleration" disabled. This will interfere with the game's ability to bring up error dialogs (you were probably missing on an alert telling you why the game was crashing on startup if you had 3D acceleration on), not to mention that it doesn't really work well at all under Mac OS X. Simply moving the BIFFs to the top-level data/ folder shouldn't solve any crashing issue; regardless, make sure you've updated your paths in Baldur.ini (under the Aliases section) -- if everything is in data/ and you've gotten rid of the CDn/data folders, the paths should all read CDn:=: (where n is 1-5). Make sure you've moved all the movies/ BIFFs to a top-level "movies" folder (you'll need to create it), and then you can delete the CDn/ folders entirely.