Strange problem after installing mods!

[ShadowDragoon]

This is a strange one. I started a new game on Baldur's Gate II earlier today, having recently finished up Baldur's Gate I. I imported my character, and ran through the dungeon a part of the way. I had some mods installed, and I got to the point where some drueregar killed my main character. I load up a saved game from earlier, and the strangest thing happened. The game freezes up for a minute, then shows all black instead of the area. If I wait a few moments, it shows the area, but my main character is unselectable. He has a blue circle around him (a different shade than the other non-joinable non-enemy characters), and none of my other party members are able to talk to him. I have full control over everybody else. I even tried pulling in a few charm spell scrolls to see if that would work, but they had no effect on him at all.

 

Anybody know what's the problem? If it will help, here is my installation order:

 

Baldur's Gate: Shadows of Amn

Baldur's Gate: Throne of Bhaal

BG: ToB official patch (newest version)

G3 BG2 Fixpack (without the OBC Additional Script Fixes)

Ascension

Unfinished Business

Expanded Thief Stronghold

Check The Bodies

Turnabout

Redemption

Desecration of Souls

Mordan's Christmas Mod

Ding0's Questpack

Imoen Romance

Weimer Spell 50

eSeries Scripts

gMinion Scripts

Wiemer Item

iiItem

One Pixel Productions

Divine Remix

Song & Silence

aVENGER's Rogue rebalancement

Weimer Tactics Mod

MTS Crappack

 

I had forgotten about the Crappack before. I used it so I could get all of the party's items on import, since I was tired of losing all of the good stuff. I thought that since I installed that last, that might be messing things up. But, I uninstalled that mod, and I still have my problem. I don't want to have to uninstall and re-install too much. I'm hoping somebody else knows exactly what the problem is.

 

EDIT: As requested, here's a link to a screenshot of the problem. The color is a bit washed out, but it's close enough to what it looked like in-game.

 

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v121/Sha...oon/problem.jpg

[Miloch]

I would say it's probably one of those mods, but I don't know enough about them to start to guess which it might be. Any chance of a screenshot?

[ShadowDragoon]

Well, I know for a fact it's one of the mods doing it. I played this game quite a few times without mods and had no problem anything like this.

 

I edited my original post with a screenshot.

[Miloch]

Well it looks like your PC is under some sort of disabling spell, but unfortunately your cursor is over your portrait where those icons would be. Not that they always will show up necessarily, especially if this is a buggy spell effect introduced by some mod or other.

 

Just a random thought since I saw something similar in another forum... did you by chance charm your PC back to your control in the earlier saved game? Because if that's true, he will permanently be out of your control - this is hardcoded in the game engine from what I understand.

[ShadowDragoon]

Nope. None of my characters have the charm spell. I consoled a few in hoping that would fix the problem after this happened, but it didn't have any effect on my character, even when the spell succeeded. Maybe I should have tried a dire charm instead...

 

The only icons on his portrait is a haste icon from a pair of boots of speed that stayed on him when I imported.

 

EDIT: Tried a Dire Charm scroll. That wouldn't work either.

[berelinde]

That's actually a purple unselectable circle, but I'm unfamiliar with most of your mods, so I can't offer much in the way of guidance.

[Miloch]

What's also weird is that you appear to have 3 NPCs in the party according to the portraits, but 4 according to the green circles. But maybe you have a charmee or summonee or something.

[ronin69hof]

He has 4 NPC's, his main character is missing from the right side.

 

*** nevermind I was wrong and blind ***

[ShadowDragoon]

1 main character, 3 NPCs, and 1 wolf that I had Minsc charm.

[pro5]

It's one of those mods on your list which modify AR0602.BCS. I'm not familiar with all of them, so I can't tell which one for sure without having your copy of this file. The problem is in missing Continue() in script block extended using EXTEND_TOP.

[ShadowDragoon]

What do I need to fix the file? Is there a program I have to download to go in and tweak the script? Or can I open it in Notepad? I'm no novice to programming, so I'll have an easy enough time following directions on fixing this.

[pro5]

Fixing the script now won't remove your current problem, it will prevent the same thing from happening in a new game.

 

Directions:

create a copy of any setup*.exe file in your BG2 folder and rename it to "weidu.exe"

- execute "weidu ar0602.bcs" from command line to decompile the script

- open the resulting "ar0602.baf" with notepad

- all script blocks above the one with trigger:

IF
 OnCreation()
 Global("NewGame","AR0602",0)
 Global("ENDOFBG1","GLOBAL",0)
THEN

must end with "Continue()" action (if they don't, add it).

- execute "weidu ar0602.baf" from command line to compile it

- put resulting ar0602.bcs into override folder

 

If you don't want to start a new game, the only option may be to edit your savegame with NearInfinity and change the value of area global "NewGame" in AR0602.ARE to 1. NI can also be used to edit the script instead of decompiling it and editing with notepad.

[ShadowDragoon]

That fixed it! I tried starting a new game, saving and loading like I did before, and I didn't get the problem. Thanks for the help everyone.

[CamDawg]

Are you using the latest MTS Crappack? There was a conflict between the Fixpack and it that MTS had fixed in the latest release.

[ShadowDragoon]

I just downloaded the MTS Crappack earlier today, so I'm pretty sure it was the newest release, unless I came across an old link.