i Entire installation instructions for the Baldur's Gate Mega-Mod

3 12 IN THREE STEPS TO SUCCESS: PREPARATION
Download the BiG World Setup. With this tool you can easily download and unpack all the mods you are interested
in and install the megamod. You can select predefined versions or create your own mega-mod. The
installation-tool checks for incompatibilities and dependencies. Additionally it makes several checks to avoid
problems. In short: With the BiG World Setup the installation procedure of mega-mods becomes much easier
and will be less error-prone. You can get the BiG World Setup here:
http://www.shsforums.net/index.php?automodule=downloads&showcat=72
Some of the following steps will be executed by the BiG World Setup and are listed here only for the sake of
completeness:
1. DOWNLOAD OF THE MODS
(will be executed by the BiG World Setup)
a) Download and unpack all the mods you are interested in, into a separate folder that you name BiG
World Project. The advantage of this is, that if you mess up the installation or want to start again because
of an update or additional mod, you won’t need to individually unpack each Mod into the BGII -
SoA folder again before installation. Some mods try to auto install immediately after being unpacked.
Don’t worry: they can’t actually install as long as there is no dialog.tlk file present. Move all unpacked
mods into your folder BGII - SoA. A list of links for all of the BWP mods can be found here:
http://kerzenburg.baldurs-gate.eu/showthread.php?t=34931
b) During the Installation some fixes and patches are required. All needed files (patches and fixes) are
included in the folders BiG World Fixpack and BiG World Installpack which can be downloaded at
the same site as these instructions:
http://www.shsforums.net/index.php?automodule=downloads&showcat=72
Copy the whole content into your BGII - SoA game folder.
2. EDITING THE FILE BALDUR.INI
(will be executed by the BiG World Setup respectively BiG World Install.bat)
Activate Cheats
1. Backup the existing baldur.ini file in the main SoA directory ensuring that the extension of your
backup file is no longer .ini; for example, rename baldur.ini to baldur.bak.
2. Open the file baldur.ini in the BGII-SoA-folder with an text editor
3. Add below [Program Options] as the last line: “Cheats=1” (without quotation marks). Then you can
open in the game with STRG+Space or CTRL+Space (according to keyboard) a dialog window and
enter Cheats.
4. Add below [Program Options] as the last line: “Debug Mode=1” (without quotation marks). Then you
can use STRG+Space or CTRL+Space (depending upon your keyboard layout) to open a dialog window
from within the game and type in Cheats.
You will find Cheats in the chapter “Cheat keys / console commands“.
2. Activate blood patch
(only in some countries where it is disabled for juridical reasons)
Below [Game Options], add “memory access=100” (with out quotation marks) as the last line. You receive
an additional button in the settings to switch blood on/off.
3. Activate Errorlog
Below [Program Options], add "Logging On=1" (with out quotation marks) as the last line. If it should
happen, that your game crashes unexpectedly, then these data can be helpful for the BWP-supportteam
at troubleshooting.
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