I have a BIG problem

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hello, first post, (total newb,noobn00b, whatever...)
my game has a problem, (I got the two in one combo pack, tosc nad bg, and eversince I went into that dammed xvart vilage every timeI reloaded my game the monsters I killed were reborn! so I tried the various new patches, for baldurs gate and tosc, none of them worked, so then Itried some baldur dash patches, and then fileplanet patches, then after downloaded they f-ed up my game! it thinks I have the normal 5 cd game, and it says put cd 5 or 4 or whatever, which I obviously don't have! please help I'm pretty far into the game, and do NOT want o restart, I've made almost the PERFECT character with the perfect group!!!

gahh!

 

"and eversince I went into that dammed xvart vilage every timeI reloaded my game the monsters I killed were reborn!"

you mean that if you kill for example an Ogre, and then reload (a savegame) the Ogre is back ?

If so that is exactlly as it should be, If you load a earlier state of the game you still havent been at theOgre and killed it.


"so I tried the various new patches, for baldurs gate and tosc, none of them worked, so then Itried some baldur dash patches, and then fileplanet patches, then after downloaded they f-ed up my game! it thinks I have the normal 5 cd game, and it says put cd 5 or 4 or whatever, which I obviously don't have!"

You have the one called "The Original Saga" right ? if so you should not patch anything at all. Well baldurdash should work, but is not a patch in that regard, more like a fix pack. In other words, if you have the original saga, then do not patch anything at all!


"Please help I'm pretty far into the game, and do NOT want to restart, I've made almost the PERFECT character with the perfect group!!!"

No such thing as perfect but I can understand that one. Well probablly all you have to do is backup the savegame (inside your baldurs gate folder (ex: cprogram files\baldirs gate\ there should be a folder named "SAVE" copy/backup that one) Then uninstall the entire game, and install it again, Copy the savegames back into the same place you got it and start teh game again. And you can continue the game where you left it of. Unless you have managed to corrupt the savegame, but i very much doubt you have accomplished that.


"gahh!"

Yup, i know the feeling.

 

First: Certain places in the game do have respawning monsters. When you leave an area, just as soon as the 'fog of war' makes the place dark, you can turn around and go back and there are more monsters again. The xvert village is one of these areas. It is supposed to be like that. Very annoying but that is what the game designers wanted.

About your mucked up install. You might be hosed. Try this: copy the save game directory to someplace safe. Then uninstall BG and completly re-install adding only the official patch. (Then maybe the balderdash after it looks safe). Then copy the save game directory back to under the main BG directory, where it was. With luck your save games will load. But the extra patches might make them uncompatable. I hope you have a save game from before you tried adding the extra patches. BTW if you have enough HD space, do the full install, so you do not need the extra CD's anymore.

Also, if you installed the main game and the TOTC expansion, be sure not to add any patches just for BG because this will cause a muck-up.

 

thanks guys you have been VERY helpful!

I might try that thing where you save you data then ninstall then reinstall etc...

yes I have the orignal saga one... but its wierd it seems like ever since I went into the xvart village, all the other areas... respawned the monster as well... for example, I am in the part of the cloakwood mines and its the part after you get yeslick, and you kill the hobgoblins in the first aea, then you go down and there are two rooms FILLED with them, and I kill them, (hobgoblin barracks maybe?) and then if I save, they will reappear! I dunno if that is supposed to happen but...

 

You might be trying to rest/sleep ? if so there is random encounters dependent upon where you sleep and such. Really you didnt think the big evil mastermind would let you just lie down for 8 hours to sleep in themiddle of one of hes strongholds now would you ?

 

haha, yes I did recognize that too when I did TRY to sleep, people always kept waking me, damn bandits, ha.

but no it was I would kill the hobbies, then if I were to save it, reload it, gobbies back, good for, GREAT for, xp but other than that pretty hard to move on....


weird huh?


*update*

all I had to do was copy the save files and viola exactly the same!!

so if you just copy the save folder, thats all you need to do??? and EVERYTHING that was saved before the uninstall will be in there after you put in the saved folder in to the new reinstall?

[ April 05, 2005, 02:59: Message edited by: yoyoyogiveuptherock ]

 

This might be becose of some weird script issues, I have had those ocationally. Where the game kept spawning more and more Flaming Fist soldiers no matter what i did. (SW map of Baldurs Gate, the Flaming Fist castle area had more then 100+ Flaming Fist soldiers, imagine how hard it was to get IN those doors.)

Related, wich file do you start the game with ?