HoW install error and other questions.

[Jon_J]

Hi, this is my first post. I have been reading many posts here since
I started playing IWD 2 weeks ago, and they are all very helpful. [img]smile.gif[/img]

1. I have Icewind dale, and I got the Heart of Winter from a friend.
When I installed HoW, about ¾ of the way through I got this error:
CRC Error: CD3\Data\eMOV1.bif cannot be copied.
It gave me the choice to retry, and the game continued to install.
Then at the end of the install, I got the same error, (above)
I selected to skip it this time. Is this file a Movie??
I looked in my directory and it is there and is the same size as
the one on the disc, 65.7 MB (68,943,642 bytes)
The Game seems to play fine, which brings me to my next question.

2. I downloaded Trials of the Luremaster and installed it.
How do I know it is installed? HoW install changed the title screen
and many other things. Plus came with an online manual.
ToL has no online manual that I can find. The only evedence I could
find of ToL is in the \Override directory. It changed after HoW and
again after ToL install. ToL also placed 2 text files in the "main" directory.
I use Win98 SE.

3. I started a new game for several reasons. I was at 2nd lvl of Dragon's Eye
I made a spare copy of that savegame in case I accidently save over it later on.
I started with the same chars, but with improved ability scores and weapon proficiencies.
Thanks to this board, [img]smile.gif[/img] I have much better starting chars. They are:
Fighter
Fighter
Fighter/Thief
Cleric
Fighter/Mage
Cleric/Mage

Back to my question, How do I tell, (In the game), that the ToL expansion is installed properly?
I DL it with my 56k

Thank you for reading this,
Jon

[ZFR]

1. I think it would be because the CD has scratches... but if you say there are no problems then I wouldnt worry about it.

2. Check your patch.txt file in the game folder... it should contain a section mentioning fixes to HoW and Trials Of the Luremaster:

VERSION 1.42 - HEART OF WINTER Patch / TRIALS OF THE LUREMASTER
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Edit: I mean if the section is there in the patch.txt file then ToTl shouldve installed properly. I dontknow if there is a way to check in the game itself

[ 12-27-2003, 01:00 PM: Message edited by: ZFR ]

[Jon_J]

Thank you for your quick reply ZFR.
I read the patch.txt and actually the readme.txt has more info on ToL.
They are both version 1.42

If anyone knows what eMOV1.bif file is, please post information about it here. It is in this directory:
CD3\Data\eMOV1.bif
If it is a movie, it is the largest one in that particular directory. And if I knew, (if it is a movie), which one it is, I would know when/if something goes wrong when the movie is played.

Thank you again,
Jon

[ 12-27-2003, 05:11 PM: Message edited by: Jon_J ]

[ZFR]

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[Micah Foehammer]

I checked out the eMov1.bif file and the size looks wrong. In explorer under win98SE, the file is listed as 67,382KB last updated 2/04/01. Definitely looks like a movie file to me, but can't tell you whether it's a TolM or HoW movie.

[Jon_J]

Thanks for your reply Micah,
Here is what Win98SE explorer says,
65.7 MB or 67,328KB or (in properties), 68,943,642 bytes
The date is 02/04/01 7:47PM
The CD3 directory was created when I installed HoW

It's proberly alright, I didn't want to un-install the game just to see if the same error occured again.
Jon