some guy Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 :p I come before the mighty masters of the Infinity Engine as a humble supplicant to grovel for your assistance! Some time ago on my XP SP2 machine, I uninstalled my base BG and EasyTutu installation. I recently tried reinstalling BG1 + TOTSC using the Complete Collection 3-disc set. The "Recommended" install works just fine, but the "Full" install (which adds the movies and all the ARXXX.bif files to Program Files\Black Isle\Baldur's Gate\Data ) keeps crashing out DURING the install with a runtime error(?). So, I can run base BG just fine from the "Recommended" install, but cannot install EasyTutu because my installation is missing a bunch of ARXXX.bif files from the "Full" install, which refuse to install properly (again, that pesky runtime error! ) I notice that there are ARXXX.cbf files on the actual discs, so I'm wondering if any brilliant Infinity Engine geniuses know how to convert .CBF files to .BIF files so that I can just copy them all over to my hard drive? Does ".CBF" stand for "compressed .BIF" file, and if so, has anyone figured out how to unzip them...? Any insight into how to get a full install of base BG1+TOTSC (so's I can reinstall EasyTutu) will be much appreciated! Insert gratuitious grovelling here! :D Link to comment
BigRob Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 Hmmm, if they are compressed, there is a chance that they have just compressed them using a simple Zip or RAR format and have just renamed the files. You could try opening the files with a standard archiving program and see if they'll do the job. Link to comment
devSin Posted December 26, 2009 Share Posted December 26, 2009 Hmmm, if they are compressed, there is a chance that they have just compressed them using a simple Zip or RAR format and have just renamed the files. You could try opening the files with a standard archiving program and see if they'll do the job.CBF is the format for Icewind Dale compressed BIFFs. There's some C source code for decompressing these to a standard BIFF, but I don't know if any utilities will let you automatically convert these all. (If any of the files stay on the disc as CBFs and the game actually reads them, it should decompress the BIFFs by itself, caching the converted archives in the caches/ directory. Eventually, you could collect them all.) Link to comment
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