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Discussion in 'Baldur's Gate (Classic)' started by The Town Idiot, Aug 4, 2001.

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    Baldur's Gate is being evil to me, it refuses to be installed. something along the lines of setup.exe being an invalid dos file, and that it might be damaged.

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    Um.. help me...? please ?
     
    The Town Idiot, Aug 4, 2001
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    Well, my friend, i'd have to say and this is not the best advice but either check your computer for any glitches or buy a new game.
     
    Sniper, Aug 5, 2001
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    uh-huh. so... how would one go about checking one's computer for glitches...? for... first of all, having not played Baldur's Gate at all, I do not know if I'll like it or not, and do not want to go buy a new copy of something I'm not sure about, and, um, well, BG1 is tough to find nowadays...
     
    The Town Idiot, Aug 5, 2001
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    First thing you could do is try to install it on a mate's computer so you can see if it's the computer or the disc. Just a thought.
     
    Ironbeard, Aug 5, 2001
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    mm-hmm...

    Try installing it on someone else's computer... and if it screws up there, the disc shall be officially declared... um... bad ? broken ? evil ? the eater of souls and destroyer of dreams ? ... I like that last one best.
     
    The Town Idiot, Aug 5, 2001
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    Then, if that happens then you get your reciept, state the problem, get refund and then buy another DIFFERENT copy of BG1
     
    Sniper, Aug 5, 2001
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    a small problem with that... I've had this game since around christmastime, have lost the receipt, and when I tried to return before, they denied me my money, claiming that it worked fine on their computers. so... perhaps I could get a fake moustache, and pawn the game off on some unsuspecting bystander...?
     
    The Town Idiot, Aug 5, 2001
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    one thing i noticed is that u said that setup.exe was not a valdid ((dos)) file
    the reason this strikes me is because bg dosent run in dos, it says this on the minumun requirments on the side of the box
     
    [sOv]Storm, Aug 6, 2001
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    Hmm... then I wonder why it's trying to run in dos... strange... perhaps if I reverted back to using directx 5... at the moment I've got drectx 8 or something... and father thinks it may be a part of the problem...

    umm... so... if it doesen't work in dos... what is it that it works in... then ? ... something else ? what's it called..? perhaps I can try opening BG with that.
     
    The Town Idiot, Aug 7, 2001
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    I had some problems with DirectX8 too when I replayed the game a month ago, so try to install that Directx version which is on the BG disc.
     
    Alyr Arkhon, Aug 7, 2001
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