Long story but I had all my BG2 stuff moved to another PC in the same house (they're linked.) BG2 won't work and I was told "install over it". Fair enough. Began installing then........ It asked for disc 2 and I promptly snapped it in half. I've heard about gamecopy world etc for getting games top run without discs but I can't make out hide nor hair of what I'm supposed to do. Can anyone run me through any possible fixes, cheats for this problem?.....Thanks.

Also, because BG2 is now knackered I thought I'd like to look back at IWD. How can I get my saves folder from PC 1 across and in the game on PC2?

Baffled and slightly pissed off.......from London.

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You could add it to your store! http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...miles/wink.gif

But seriously, do you not still have the cd? You did not quite explain yourself.

I have the CD yes. But CD 2 has a crack running from the centre hole to the edge of the disc, it is devoid of use, it is a late disc, it is no more. http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...iles/smile.gif

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Sorry to hear that Charlie...but I have no idea what Gamecopy is...all I can think of is, maybe someone on the forum could make a copy of disc 2 for you and send it by mail. My b/f's cd burner is broken, but if we get a new one, I could do it for you... not sure how long it will take though....so I hope there are any other forum members who can help......anyone?

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if youve already gotten it installed you can put in disk 3 to play
but if not then thats kind of screwed up


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I have it installed on PC#1 but the drive thingy bust. My bro' copied everything across from PC#1 to PC#2 but every time I tried to load it, it said an "assertion" had failed. I've tried to install over the top of the copied game on PC#2 but have now broken the disc. Disc 2 is still asked for upon entering certain areas if a full install wasn't done so I'm stuffed there anyway. Gamecopy world allows or gives instructions as to how to run a game with no disc (I think) but my computer literacy is so poor I don't know what I'm doing of. Thanks anyway, anyone else?

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if you read your warranty info that came w/ the game you'd prob notice a paragraph that says something to the effect of if you break your disks, you can send them back, along w/ $5 (us) and they'll send you a replacement.

Thanks Koz-ivan.

What actually happened was that I "flicked" CD2 out of the drive when changing it. My dog caught the disc before it hit the floor and put a tiny crack in it near the centre hole. The disc still worked ok with no problems. Anyway, my mate (the mystery Sniffer) and myself have been at this address (visiting) for the last week and between us (through drunken antics) have managed to break the CD reading drive thingy from "my" PC. This is my fault entirely and I accept that, my bro' has copied the stuff over to his PC to allow me to play BG2 while I look after the house for the weekend but now I've bust the disc completely just to pour salt on the wound. I'm not looking for a warranty claim up or anything of that ilk, but I heard that http://www.gamecopyworld.com/ gives instruction or assistance to blokes like me who have lost/broken discs. I'm just trying to get the game running for the weekend but I can't make head nor tail of what I'm supposed to do if that is the case.

The other thing I wouldn't mind doing but again I can't figure out is this. My PC is not 20 feet away from the one I'm using now. How on Earth can I send my complete Icewind Dale "saves" folder over to THIS PC from the other one so that I can put my original saves into this freshly installed game?

Many thanks. Gettindrunkerbytheminute. http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...miles/wink.gif

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oh, i have no idea how gamecopy works.

and to move the savegame files, are they too big to put onto floppy?
or could you in effect e-mail the files to yourself and grab them that way?

Thanks, err, I have absolutely no idea. I am a PC thicko, happy to admit it. I tried to send myself the files but it seems like it only lets me choose one file from the folder, and even then I wouldn't know how to move it from my mail into my IWD folder. I'd like to just get the "complete saves folder" from "my PC" , send it to this PC and then put it in my (empty) IWD saves folder on this machine. Thanks for taking the time anyway koz-ivan. http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...iles/smile.gif


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You might try using a zip progam like Winzip to compress the IWD files and send them to your email, if you have it. At that point it would simply be a matter of 'unzipping' the files with the Winzip program and placing them into your IWD folder (Black Isle) on the 2nd machine.


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As far as runningthe game without the CD it is quite easy but the game must be intalled on your computer first. If you do not have the game installed... sorry your out of luck http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...iles/frown.gif Anyhow assuming the game is on your computer and you want to run without the disk in your computer goto gamecopyworld and download the file that will say something like "no Cd patch", there are different ones for differnt versions so make sure you have the correct one. Download that patch then you will need to unzip the file. Use winzip or simalar for that... From there it is a matter of extracting the file to the correct location in your balaurs gate2 folder. If I remember you may just extract file to the main directory. Anyhow it will ask if you want to repace some .exe file choose yes and you are in business. Play game with no cd http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...es/biggrin.gif

I was going to suggest what Cloudy did about the IWD files. On the other I would happy to try to burn you a CD and mail it to you. Would probably take 7 days to get it from me though.

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Hi Charlie, this is a rather not cheap way, but you could network the two computers together through a LAN network by getting a home networking program like Homefree, and installing it on both computers, which may enable you to also copy all of the bg2 files from one to the other computer. As for burning another cd, I think that they are write protected, or copy protected, unless you were to try to install it onto another cd. Not sure though. the homefree program is fairly simple, and can be installed on both computers in a matter of one half hour or so, and comes with complete instructions. Also, it connects through the USB ports, so there's no internal messing around. Total cost of about 30 dollars, US. once installed, you simply access the host computer, and copy the required files.

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