Circle of Eight Modpack 5.7.x General Commentary and Discussion Thread

The reason I want them to trade with them is not because I use them for trading in general (I'm aware they have the worst prices around) but because Gaear told me to sell them Lareth's stuff to trigger the revenge plot. That's why I asked

About the Sargen thing, I noticed that is doesn't happen when you accompany him to Hommlet. He leaves the party properly, so if anybody can compare the scripts somehow (I'm not sure where to look exactly myself )

 

Hi Gaear
I noticed something about the locked chest that Brother Smyth asks you to open. If after you unlock it, you use an "Open/Close" spell to actually open the chest, you don't get the dialogue with Bro. Smyth. The reason I used Open/Close was because I found a trap on the chest, but never got any confirmation that I had either deactivated it or failed to deactivate it.
The Royal Canadian

 

Hi Gaear
I have the blue circle with Jaer, when I take him to Hommlet. I haven't had the blue circle with Sargen, even when I have taken him to Hommlet. I should note that the only temple prisoner that I "release" in Nulb is Morgan (and that's to make sure he doesn't go back to the cell in the temple. Everyone else I "release" in Hommlet (Taki, Jaer, Sargen, Wonnilon, Wicked, Kella, Serena and Riana), and the only one I have a problem with is Jaer.
The Royal Canadian

 

There's no trap on the chest. But there is a trap confirmation somewhere behind it. I don't know what it is. It isn't new.

 

Never said it was. oO

I just didn't know how to trigger the revenge plot.

 

I am a new member. I played TOEE some years ago, and my computer crashed. Life went on and I moved on to NWN 1-2. However, the closest experience to real paper and pencil gaming I ever had was Troika's ToEE.

So, I recently found the disc and loaded into my new laptop, running Windows 7. It installed fine- but when it came time to run, it crashed before opening every time, despite my attempts to modify the settings of the OS.

Any ideas here? Is there a known problem with Windows 7 and ToEE?

Sincerely,

Marko in Chicago
Old School Gamer

 

OK guys, I think I found a problem. As stated before I followed the step by step instuctions for installation. I am using 5.7.2. Win XP. When I downloaded and extracted the 5.7.2 mod, there was at least 2 files missing. these are TFE-X.exe and TFE-X repair.exe. I uninstalled everything and tried again with the same reults. So instaed of using the MODDB mirror I switched to Filefront and now everything worked perfect.

 

Hey guys,

First time poster.

@xraygord

I downloaded the mod pack, as well, from ModDB and 7Zip and Winrar are stating that the archive was corrupted (???) Trying again from ModDB, it finally worked.

When I installed it, as per the instructions on this site, I am still getting that Magic Missile bug that's been posted 512 times already. Couldn't find the text files to replace the spell online.

Addendum:

Some posts say to check the .exe to see if it's around or less than 2 MB and it's over 3 MB. Looking for the No-CD exe online, the files to appear REALLY small (16 kb for the 2.0 patch?) and Microsoft Security flags it as a virus (Trojan).

I could try reinstalling it a third time but am afraid of having to start the game all over again (like when you play the vanilla version then realize you haven't actived the mod).

 

I am wondering- does this game and the mod pack work under Windows 7? I have been trying to find this one out for a while. If anyody knows anything about this could they please reply?

Thanks,

ML

 

I just installed Windows 7 last night, but havent installed ToEE yet.

Have you tried to set the TFE EXE and the TOEE EXE to both launch in a Win XP environment?

 

Update: I haven't fully tested this since I have my ToEE CD at my house and not in my office, but I think I have ToEE ready to go on my Windows 7 comp.

Just make sure that the TFE-X.EXE and the TOEE.EXE file are both in WinXP SP 3 compatibility mode and run both as administrators. Both of these options are changed by:

Highlight the file
Right click > Properties
Go to the Comparability Tab
Change the settings

This took away all of the errors I was receiving about another instance of TOEE running and I was able to install TFE, activate 5.7, and patch the 7.2 addon.

 

hi all... i was enjoying playing modpack 5.7.2 for a week (thanks so much for all the hard work guys!) and went to open it today and i keep getting "unable to authenticate original disc within time" any ideas? thanks!

p.s. Gaear, i promise to be good...