Baldur's Gate Forum

I can't seem to get this to work... I install it in CrossOver but, when I run the "BG2 tweaks" file (can't remember the exact name) in my CrossOver BG directory, it never opens up. I'm using Easy Tutu, and I'm soloing with a mage, so I really need to be able to stack my sling ammo more than 20! No inventory space :( Thanks!

If memory serves, that mod (as well as most others) is a weidu mod. That means it runs with a command-line installer interface. To my knowledge, there's no real way of running a command-line program through Crossover. The last time this issue came up, the only solution I could find was to download and run the Mac version of the same mod. The Mac version will run in Terminal and for most mods, this will work just fine.

Actually I did just think of another possible solution, but it would require some advanced knowledge and patience. The original Wine program is available in command-line form through the software repository called MacPorts. If you go here and install MacPorts, you can then install Wine to run the weidu program. After you've installed MacPorts, you should just be able to open terminal and then run
sudo port install wine
If wine installs correctly, then you should be able to run 'wine' from terminal and it will spout a help message. If so, then you can navigate in finder to your BG directory in the Crossover bottle. Open a terminal window next to the finder window and type "wine " with the space in the terminal. Then drag the setup-bgfixpack.exe (or whatever the setup-***.exe) is called into the terminal window. The filesystem location of the exe should be pasted after wine. Then you can reenter the terminal window and press enter. The command-line installer should run.

Hmm... well, before I try the more complicated version, how can I do it with the Mac version? I extracted it into the Crossover bottle where BG Tutu is, but, when I try to run the command, it says I don't have permission to, and just opens up a blank Terminal screen.

I don't know anything about applying this mod, but if you need to run a command in the same way as the Windows Command Prompt, you can use CrossOver's Run Command dialog with the command "wineconsole cmd" (without the quotes). That will give you a command prompt window. It should work like on Windows.

Alternatively, you can just pick the .exe file using the Browse button and then insert "wineconsole" in front of the command that gets built for you. The wineconsole program creates a console window and then runs its argument (another program) in that window.

Finally, if you need yet a third way of working, you can toggle open the Debug Options section of the Run Command dialog and click Open Shell. This will launch Terminal, open a new window, and configure that window for working with CrossOver and the selected bottle. After that, you can issue "wine" commands in that window.

Oh! I guess in the significant length of time since I last tried to install BG(2) mods in Crossover, a console was implemented... In that case you simple need to somehow run the mod executable in the wine console. It should be named setup-bgfixpack.exe or something along those lines and be located in the root BG folder.

Ken Thomases wrote:

I don't know anything about applying this mod, but if you need to
run a command in the same way as the Windows Command Prompt, you can
use CrossOver's Run Command dialog with the command "wineconsole
cmd" (without the quotes). That will give you a command prompt
window. It should work like on Windows.

Alternatively, you can just pick the .exe file using the Browse
button and then insert "wineconsole" in front of the command that
gets built for you. The wineconsole program creates a console
window and then runs its argument (another program) in that window.

Finally, if you need yet a third way of working, you can toggle open
the Debug Options section of the Run Command dialog and click Open
Shell. This will launch Terminal, open a new window, and configure
that window for working with CrossOver and the selected bottle.
After that, you can issue "wine" commands in that window.

I recently installed the GOG version of the Baldur's Gate titles as well as "EasyTutu", "EasyTutuHotfixes-20110604.exe" and "EasyTutuDegreenifier-v4.exe". The latter I installed by using the third example above since I found it difficult to use the Windows command line. The process for the Degreenifier took less than ten seconds despite being rumoured to take minutes... I'll keep my fingers crossed. Everything works perfectly fine so far though, settings at maximum except for screen resolution which is set to 1024x768 (higher results in graphical glitches), MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz, GeForce 8600M GT, OS X 10.8.6.