help with Baldur's Gate

Borgfan · Post by **Borgfan** » Sun May 26, 2002 12:55 pm

For the original Baldur's Gate, on the autorun, i clicked play and i got this message:

An Assertion failed in D:\Dev\chitin\ChDimm.cpp at line number 581
Programmer says: Unable to open BIF.data\SFXSound.bif

I tried to uninstall and i got this message:

The log file 'C:\Program Files\Black Isle\Baldur's Gate\Uninst.isu' is not valid or the data has been corrupted. Uninstallation will not continue.

Please help!

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Sun May 26, 2002 1:04 pm

Check this http://www.bioware.com/games/shadows_am ... wn_issues/

There are instructions here to manually uninstall SoA - look out for the hidden registry key, it is often overlooked. Also, it advises how to get around installation issues. I would advise turning of the DMA on your CDRom to start with, it will slow up installation but will avoid the error messages. If that doesn't work, and you have 5 gigs of free HD space, copy all of the disks to your hard drive and run the installation from there. You can always delete the copied files after you have installed.

Good luck and welcome to Gamebanshee

K0r/\/f1@k€$ · Post by **K0r/\/f1@k€$** » Sun May 26, 2002 1:11 pm

That sounds uncomfortably like what I get when I try to play PS: T. Uncomfortable because there are two large scratches on the bottom of the CD, filled with some blue stuff

Dunno what it is or how it got there but I wish it wasn't

Kameleon · Post by **Kameleon** » Tue May 28, 2002 8:09 am

Yeah, and you still haven't replaced it...

When you've uninstalled, first thing you should try is a fresh reinstall - as Ysh says, copy all the data files from the CDs to your HDD - it won't quite take 5GB, more like 3.5. Unless you're installing off the TOTSC disk and can set what you install with a "Custom" install, you'll have to edit your baldur.ini file and change all the paths at the top from "E:\CD2\" etc. to wherever you moved them to.