Baldur's Gate 1

[Turtle.net]

I installed Baldur's Gate (the first one with 4 cds) without any problem using wine

 $ wine --version
Wine 0.9.5
$ wine /media/cdrom0/setup.exe

No errors, no problems...everything seemed perfect.
According http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=baldursgate you have to

Once it's installed, go to the Movies directory and either rename or delete the MOVIECD1.BIF file.
Then type "touch MOVIECD1.BIF", this will create a file of that name with nothing in it.
You also must also edit Baldur.ini and change SoftBltFast=0 to SoftBltFast=1.

First thing : there was no Movies directory so I created one and created the false MOVIECD1.BIF file.

When I launch the game

$ wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Black Isles/ Baldur's Gate/Baldur.exe

the launch window appears but this window freeze when I click Play and nothing more happens...
If I launch

$ wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Black Isles/ Baldur's Gate/BGMain.exe

the game seems to launch, but as soon as I try to create a character there is an error and the game end...

Anyone has already installed this game ?

[cb951303]

shouldn't you first cd to the game's directory and then run directly like

 wine game.exe

[Turtle.net]

Maybe I'm wrong...but I think that the same thing than

wine completepath/game.exe

Do you think there is a difference ?

[Mr_Grieves]

Maybe I'm wrong...but I think that the same thing than

wine completepath/game.exe

Do you think there is a difference ?

Please try with CD first..
Check for game specific switches that may help.
What sound drivers are you using? If you're running WineOSS try WineALSA drivers. I've seen that resolve freezing/crashing issues in other games.

[cb951303]

Maybe I'm wrong...but I think that the same thing than

wine completepath/game.exe

Do you think there is a difference ?

yes there is a difference.

[akurashy]

I don't know if this one can give you a hand

http://www.liflg.org/?catid=7&gameid=18

(Notice that there are configs to edit)

[Turtle.net]

Thanks for your help.
Now it's working I can play !!!!

[Turtle.net]

OK here is what I have done

cd /media/cdrom0
wine autorun.exe

and I selected "Install"
the installation was succesful.
After I verified the configuration of wine using winecfg, to verify thqt the CDrom was correctly detected (and designed as disk Z.
I edited the Baldur's Gate configuration file

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Black Isle/Baldur's Gate
gedit Baldur.ini

to verify thqt the cdrom was designated as Z: and according to http://frankscorner.org/index.php?p=baldursgate that

You also must also edit Baldur.ini and change SoftBltFast=0 to SoftBltFast=1.

I can either launch the game by

cd /media/cdrom0
wine autorun.exe

or

cd ~/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/Black Isle/Baldur's Gate
wine BGMain.exe

Using the first possibility I cannot umount my disk during the game to change from CD1 to CD2.
Using the second possibility I can umount the disk but I cannot eject the disk

So I'm stuck
I cannot change from CD1 to CD2 during the game (to continue playing to follow the different missions...).

Any idea ?????

[Sudokan]

I don't know if this will help, but I had a similiar problem with many games until I ran across a thread suggesting that this be typed in a console

code:

sudo sh -c 'echo "dev.cdrom.lock=0" >> /etc/sysctl.conf'


After this I was able to always eject the cd, even when switching cd's during gameplay under wine. Hope this helps.

Sudokan

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. - Robert M. Pirsig

[zaduma]

Try making a full install of the game, then you dont need to change the CD's.

Unless of course they only introduced the "Full Install" Option in BGII, but i think they did have it in BGI