BG tutu

For those of you just learning about Baldur's Gate Tutu: it is a spectacular project. It is essentially a total conversion for Baldur's Gate 2, allowing you to play Baldur's Gate and its expansion, Tales of the Sword Coast, using the enhanced Baldur's Gate 2 engine. The original Tutu was developed by the fine folks at Pocket Plane Group. If you haven't done so yet, stop by their site to read more about Tutu and the other great mods they have developed, or stop by their Tutu forum and introduce yourself.

EasyTutu is an alternate distribution of Baldur's Gate Tutu which aims for an easy, professional installation, a stable game play experience, and a complete realization of the enhanced capabilities of the Baldur's Gate 2 engine. If you are frustrated or confused by the Tutu installation procedure, experiencing game stability problems, looking for a simpler installation, or are interested in a more refined gameplay experience, EasyTutu is for you.

Some of the benefits of EasyTutu:

* EasyTutu installs a stable, mature, extensively tested version of Tutu using a professional quality InstallShield-based setup program. All of the complexities of the Tutu install process are handled for you automatically.
* EasyTutu performs a very clean installation, without leaving behind the hundreds of setup-related files found after a traditional Tutu installation.
* EasyTutu includes a large number of features, bug fixes and add-ons over and above those included with traditional Tutu and Tutufix. Furthermore, EasyTutu exploits the enhanced capabilities of the Baldur's Gate 2 engine (e.g., the organized game journal) much more comprehensively.
* All prerequisites for a stable Tutu installation are enforced at install-time. This makes unexplained game crashes down the road much less likely.
* Your installations of Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 are untouched by the EasyTutu installer. You can still play both of them with EasyTutu installed, and if any Tutu-related problems occur, your original installations are unaffected. Please note that a new installation option ("space saver") is now available which requires less disk space, but which consumes your Baldur's Gate installation during the EasyTutu setup process.
* Unlike traditional Tutu, EasyTutu is not dependent upon Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2 being installed after setup is completed. Both games need to be installed only for the EasyTutu setup process itself.
* A Tutu shortcut is added to a start menu folder of your choosing (and optionally, to the Windows desktop) during installation.

Requirements

* You must already have performed a FULL installation of the English language version of Baldur's Gate (and optionally, its expansion, Tales of the Sword Coast). If you are using Baldur's Gate: The Original Saga, the expansion is already included without having to be installed separately. Please note that for a truly complete installation (which is required), you will have to opt for a "custom" setup in order to select every possible optional component.
* You must already have installed the English language version of Baldur's Gate 2. A full install is recommended.
* There are two different versions of EasyTutu: one for those who have installed the Baldur's Gate 2 expansion, Throne of Bhaal, and one for those who have not. Please make sure you download the correct one (the non-expansion version should have "SoA" at the end of its name, and the Throne of Bhaal version should have "ToB" at the end of its name).
* Your Baldur's Gate 2 installation must already have the latest patch installed. For those without Throne of Bhaal, that is Shadows of Amn patch 23037. For those with Throne of Bhaal, it is ToB patch 26498.
* You will need roughly 3 GB of available disk space to install EasyTutu, or roughly 1.1 GB of disk space if you opt for the "space saver" option which consumes your Baldur's Gate installation. If you opt for the normal installation in which your Baldur's Gate installation is untouched, please note that you can later reclaim much of your 3 GB disk space investment by uninstalling Baldur's Gate.

Notes

* If you remember to customize your Baldur's Gate 2 options prior to installing EasyTutu (by running the "BGConfig" program and by setting the in-game options the way you like them), your Tutu installation will inherit these preferences automatically, without your having to set them all again.
* If you are interested in some of the tweaks available in Tutufix, make sure to use Tutufix v17 or better. Beginning with that release, Tutufix has been programmed to recognize EasyTutu and to offer compatible choices only.
* You are free to uninstall Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2 after the EasyTutu setup completes successfully. This distribution of Tutu does NOT depend upon either game being present on your hard drive after setup is complete.
* If you opt for a normal installation, the EasyTutu setup program makes absolutely no changes to your Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2 installations. They will continue to function exactly as they did prior to installing EasyTutu. If you opt for a "space saver" installation, your Baldur's Gate installation will be consumed by the EasyTutu installer during the setup process.
* If you opt for a "space saver" installation but wish to suppress the uninstallation of the remnants of your Baldur's Gate installation, simply rename the Uninst.isu file in your Baldur's Gate folder prior to running the EasyTutu setup program.
* EasyTutu does not copy over custom portraits from your Baldur's Gate 2 installation. If you wish to have your BG2 custom portraits available in EasyTutu, you must copy them from BG2's "portraits" subfolder to EasyTutu's "portraits" subfolder.

Known Issues

As mentioned above, this distribution of Tutu is very stable and enjoyable. However, there are a couple of issues worth mentioning:

* There is a sporadically occurring yet extremely vexing bug connected to the city of Beregost which causes crashes and corrupted save games. This bug can be circumvented through careful save game practices. Always save your game prior to entering Beregost, and once you leave, save it again using a different save game slot. Then try loading your post-Beregost save and re-entering Beregost. If you are able to do both those things, reload the post-Beregost save once again and continue on your way. If there is a problem, fall back on your pre-Beregost save. This practice has helped me to circumvent the glitch on the occasions it has occurred.

* In-game water will look green if you have 3D acceleration enabled, due to complications in rendering BG1 graphics resources in the BG2 engine. You have two choices in dealing with this issue. The first is to disable 3D acceleration, which can be done by running the BGConfig.exe program in your EasyTutu folder, clicking on 2D & 3D Options under the Graphics heading, unchecking the Use 3D Acceleration checkbox, and then saving. It can also be done by using Notepad to open the file named BALDUR.INI in your EasyTutu folder, finding the line which reads 3D Acceleration=1, changing the 1 to a 0, and saving.

If you wish to retain the use of 3D acceleration without in-game water looking green, you may download and install the EasyTutu Degreenifier. To start the installation, simply execute the linked program after you have downloaded it, and point it to your EasyTutu folder (C:\Program Files\BaldursGateTutu by default) when it asks you. The installation will take several minutes and will consume an additional 1.5 GB of disk space, because a number of large graphical BG1 tilesets need to be extracted and then patched. You should only run this utility on a "clean" (i.e. not yet modded) installation of EasyTutu.

How To Uninstall

To uninstall EasyTutu, use the "Add or Remove Programs" feature in your Windows Control Panel, and choose to uninstall "Baldur's Gate Tutu." Then, using My Computer or Windows Explorer, delete the folder to which you installed Tutu.

If you have installed multiple copies of EasyTutu, the uninstall option in the "Add or Remove Programs" utility will only uninstall the most recently installed copy. This is not a cause for concern, and should not dissuade you from installing multiple copies (if desired). To remove any other installations, simply use My Computer or Windows Explorer to delete the folder to which you installed the unwanted copy of EasyTutu.

Download EasyTutu (FAQ) (Revision History)

Please make sure you've read this page carefully before downloading and using EasyTutu.

SAVEGAME COMPATIBILITY NOTE: If you have an EasyTutu game in progress, finish that game prior to uninstalling EasyTutu and installing the newer version. Please note that if you switch from one distribution of EasyTutu to the other (i.e., from the SoA version to the ToB version or vice versa), you will lose savegame compatibility.


For those of you who are using Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn (no expansion), download and install the following version of EasyTutu:

EasyTutu_SoA.exe (last updated 08 May 2008)
http://www.usoutpost31.com/easytutu/EasyTutu_SoA.exe

For those of you who are using Baldur's Gate 2: Throne of Bhaal (expansion installed), download and install the following version of EasyTutu:

EasyTutu_ToB.exe (last updated 08 May 2008)
http://www.usoutpost31.com/easytutu/EasyTutu_ToB.exe

On a essayé hier, c'est vraiment EXCELLENT.

Faut que tout le monde ai BG 1 & 2 + add ons installé avec les derniers patchs et c'est super simple a utilisé. Ca fonctionne en réseau.

En gros on joue a BG1 avec l'interface et le graphisme de BG 2 et le tout en raison..

seul pop qui n'en est pas un: le jeu est désormais en anglais...

installé... le jeu est moitié anglais moitié francais... y a meme des moment ou les voix changent en milieu de cinématique.

On testera, si ca plante ben on recommencera avec le 1 normal. et si ca plante vraiment loin dans le jeu on fera BG2 direct non?

Ou alors on fait le 1 normal direct, ca m'est égal que ca soit moche donc c'est comme vous voulez

grand fred a écrit:installé... le jeu est moitié anglais moitié francais... y a meme des moment ou les voix changent en milieu de cinématique.

c-a-d?

T'as bien avancé dans le debut du 1 sous tutu?

c'est ou que ça plante que je teste?

alors près l'installation de BG tutu, il faut installer le tutufix v18

http://mods.pocketplane.net/bg1tutu/Tutufix_v18.rar

qui doit réparer pas mal de merdes comme ce dont parles gfred.

Perso, j'ai moi même ajouté quelques mods:

ordre d'installation:
- installation normale BG 1 2 + addons + patches
- installation easytutu
- installation tutufix v18

- installation mods recommandés:
- BG2 tweak pack http://www.gibberlings3.net/readmes/readme-bg2tweaks.html
- ITEM revision http://www.gibberlings3.net/readmes/readme-item_rev.html
- Révision des classes voleur et barde: http://rogue.rebalancing.googlepages.com/