Anyone, on the offchance anyone else comes here looking for advice.
1) You'll have to use
Cedega but at 9 pounds for a 3 month subscription to the site (and unlimited use of the versions you download) it's really not a hardship.
2) Installation of SoA proceeds as normal. If, for some reason it doesn't, there's an excellent advice thread
here with step by step instructions on how to do it the 'hard way' [img]smile.gif[/img]
3) With ToB I got a message saying that SoA wasn't installed. What you need to do is select the 'Baldur's Gate 2' icon in the right hand panel of Point2Play and
then press install. This way it will install ToB into the same group and will recognise your SoA installation.
4) Installations of non-Weidu mods should be done the same way (ie. the official patch, game text update, baldurdash fixpack).
5) Backup your important data files.
6) Weidu mods are a real real pain to do under Cedega, not least because the graphical file browser is a bit rubbish, especially at selecting hidden files. Far easier is to have another installation of 'plain'
wine to do it for you.
Simply copy the Weidu executable to your BG2 folder, then switch to a console. Type (for example)
which should extract the usual files to your installation directory. Then simply do
to install the mod - you'll be able to select the options in the console just like you would in the DOS prompt. If you copy the .exe files to your BG2 installation
first (just drag&drop) then the long and complicated install paths will be already filled in [img]smile.gif[/img] You can safely ignore any errors.
7) Sit back and enjoy the game! No glitches so far...
Edits:
(i) Avoid installing the Banter Pack - its installer seems to just give you the installation screen without the dialogue and you can't tab away from it.
(ii) There's an issue with some NPC Weidu mods. Things like Tactics and EoU installed fine. Saerileth dies though; it appears to be something to do with the auto-updating she does of other Wiedu setups. I'll try to find my way round that in the next couple of days. Sola seems to pause on writing to dialogue.tlk, not sure why that is either.
[ 04-04-2005, 03:44 PM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]