SOA:TOB Panels Messed up

[lwinstead]

I'm running Vista Ultimate 32bit on an HP NC8430 (ATi Mobility Radeon x1600). After installing SOA:TOB and the latest patch 26498, I was able to successfully apply this widescreen mod. After starting the game, however, my panels are screwed up; the left button panel is correctly rendered, but the bottom and right ones are not there. When I move my pointer to those areas, it's the old DOOM clipping effect, and there's nothing to click on.

 

Has this happened to anyone else? I would really love to play widescreen, but this panel madness totally stops me. Thanks for any input!

[the bigg]

That's a new one. I guess that's the (n+1)th case of "Vista Sucks". What resoluton are you using?

[lwinstead]

That's a new one. I guess that's the (n+1)th case of "Vista Sucks". What resoluton are you using?

 

Actually, I -don't- think Vista sucks. I rather like it - of course, that's with all the superfluous security additions turned off.

 

Anyway, the panel-funniness happens with any widescreen resolution I pick. Most notably with high resolutions, such as 1440x900 and 1680x1050. Oh, and I also get warnings when actually running the setup-widescreen.exe. I guess it would help to have those. Lemme see if I can't get 'em.... Here you go:

 

Installing [Widescreen mod]

 

Enter your X coordinate. It should be a number, >= 800.

 

 

 

Enter your Y coordinate. It should be a number, >= 600.

 

Do you want fullscreen? (doesn't work for non-standard resolutions)

 

1 = yes

 

0 = no

 

1440x900, fullscreen.

 

Are you sure? Y/N

Copying and patching 1 file ...

[baldur.ini] loaded, 3203 bytes

baldur.ini copied to widescreen/backup/0/baldur.ini, 3203 bytes

Copied [baldur.ini] to [baldur.ini]

Copying and patching 1 file ...

[bgmain.exe] loaded, 7839790 bytes

 

Offset 206897 was 1440, should be 1024.

 

Report success or failure of mode setting to The Bigg.

 

Offset 207717 was 900, should be 768.

 

Report success or failure of mode setting to The Bigg.

 

Offset 207756 was 1376, should be 960.

 

Report success or failure of mode setting to The Bigg.

 

Offset 207842 was 1376, should be 960.

 

Report success or failure of mode setting to The Bigg.

 

Offset 207929 was 1376, should be 960.

 

Report success or failure of mode setting to The Bigg.

 

Offset 208016 was 1376, should be 960.

 

Report success or failure of mode setting to The Bigg.

 

Offset 208102 was 1376, should be 960.

 

Report success or failure of mode setting to The Bigg.

 

Offset 208189 was 1376, should be 960.

 

Report success or failure of mode setting to The Bigg.

 

Offset 207766 was 810, should be 678.

 

Report success or failure of mode setting to The Bigg.

 

Offset 207852 was 618, should be 486.

 

Report success or failure of mode setting to The Bigg.

 

Offset 207939 was 746, should be 614.

 

Report success or failure of mode setting to The Bigg.

 

Offset 208026 was 761, should be 629.

 

Report success or failure of mode setting to The Bigg.

 

Offset 208112 was 790, should be 658.

 

Report success or failure of mode setting to The Bigg.

 

Offset 208199 was 654, should be 522.

 

Report success or failure of mode setting to The Bigg.

 

Offset 206857 was 1440, should be 1280.

 

Report success or failure of mode setting to The Bigg.

 

-----

Lawrence Winstead

[the bigg]

1) you're using an older version of the mod.

2) It looks like you tried to install the mod twice, or you used the non-weidu mod, followed by the weidu one, or something like that. Try to uninstall the game, fully delete the game directory, and then reinstall from scratch.

3) Vista sucks = I believed it was a broken DirectX compatibility, rather than broken bgmain.exe.

[lwinstead]

1) you're using an older version of the mod.

2) It looks like you tried to install the mod twice, or you used the non-weidu mod, followed by the weidu one, or something like that. Try to uninstall the game, fully delete the game directory, and then reinstall from scratch.

3) Vista sucks = I believed it was a broken DirectX compatibility, rather than broken bgmain.exe.

 

The Bigg? You da man! This morning (sorry to take so long to reply), I removed BGII:SOA/TOB completely, and started fresh. I followed your suggested install procedure, and it works now. My panels are NOT messed up now, and I am successfully running the game in widescreen mode, at 1440x900 resolution! YAY!

 

The interesting thing is that ever since I got a widescreen notebook, I've never seen this game in the proper aspect ratio; the last time I saw it looking correct was back in college, 6 years ago. ... Wow, has it been that long..? Er.. anyway, I'm super happy that everything's working now. Thanks a ton, TB. You've totally made my year!