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Originally Posted by fable Are you saying this will work for the likes of BG2 SoA/ToB? And even with mods? |
Yes, it will work with BG1 and SoA/ToB, even with mods.
If you don't perform a full installation, the game has to read files from the CDs. In that case, your *.ini file must specify the correct path to the CDs. If you do perform a full installation, the setup program merely copies the files to your hard drive. For example, the contents of CD3 are placed in a subdirectory called /CD3, and the *.ini file specifies that path. To prevent the need to swap CDs frequently, some of the data files are repeated on each CD. By placing all of the files into one directory into individual directories, you can eliminate the duplicate files and save about 400-500MB of hard drive space.
Keep in mind that the /DATA directory and /MOVIE directory only contain files from the original CDs. I'm not aware of any mod that replaces any of those files. Usually, mods replace the DIALOG.TLK file with a new one and add a bunch of files to the /OVERRIDE directory. If you install the TotSC expansion or the ToB expansion, I don't think any of the original data files are overwritten; I think the expansion packs simply add new files (on CD6 and CD5, respectively). Any changes to the existing maps, creatures, and items are probably handled simply by adding new files to the /OVERRIDE directory. The same thing goes for official patches.
I can't remember whether there was any need to move the data files from IWD and IWD2 to a single folder (the setup program might have set it up that way to begin with), but I just took a look at my IWD directory, and all of the data files are in a single directory.