• Windows 7 or a close emulation of this OS
  
• 5.1GB of hard drive space
  
• Baldur's Gate: The Original Saga (via GOG or your CD)[www.gog.com]
  
• Baldur's Gate II Complete (via GOG or your CD)[www.gog.com]
  
• Hamachi (Download Unmanaged here)[secure.logmein.com]

If you want to host, you need to have physical access to your router/modem or the ability to obtain its admin login for port forwarding.

Install Baldur's Gate: The Original Saga in directory X:/YourGatesFolder/
Install Baldur's Gate II Complete in directory X:/YourGatesFolder/

So you end up having

X:\YourGatesFolder\Baldur's Gate
X:\YourGatesFolder\Baldur's Gate 2

3. Download Baldur's Gate 2 Fixpack (here)[www.gibberlings3.net] and extract it to your Baldur's Gate II directory.

4. Run the extracted contents, setup-bg2fixpack.exe.

5. Yes for every option that pops up except for...

During the second prompt, "Game Text Update".

Select 1 for "GTU Light by Wisp"

At a later prompt, choose [Skip] for "Cromwell's Forging Actually Takes A Day".

6. Download BGT-WeiDU (here)[www.shsforums.net] and extract it in your Baldur's Gate 2 directory.

(You may need to run it in administrative mode in Windows Vista/7. for the steps below)

7. Extract contents of that download (BGT118-Install.rar), run Setup-BGT.exe, follow its instructions.


8. Enter Baldur's Gate I's directory when asked (if not already provided).

9. Wait for BGT-WeiDU to finish installing.

10. Download and install Baldur's Gate 1 Unfinished Business (here)[www.pocketplane.net] as well as BG 2 Unfinished Business (here)[www.pocketplane.net]. These mods restore things that were previously cut from the released product, so while you don't need them, and they do add new content, they're pretty nice to have, especially if this is not your first time.

remember setup-bg1ub.exe goes into BG2's folder aka where BGT was installed. Same with setup-ub.exe

11. Take a deep breath because it's almost done.

12. Go to your Baldur's Gate 2 directory, then find and run the file Setup-BGTMusic.exe and select 'Hybrid Baldur’s Gate/Shadows of Amn/Throne of Bhaal music'. This makes it possible to hear the original Baldur's Gate music when playing Baldur's Gate 1.

13. Another deep breath (this is place holder in order to be compatible when cross referencing guides on GOG).

14. Download and install Bigger Fonts for BGII mod (here)[www.shsforums.net], because on a wide-screen mod below, it "pushes" the stage further away from your monitor so you would have to read really tiny fonts.

Folder to paste font content in, make sure you're pasting .bam files directly and not the actual font mod folder.
(X:\YourBaldurGates\Baldur's Gate 2\override)

15. Download the widescreen mod (here)[www.gibberlings3.net] and apply it in the same manner as the fixpack. This makes it possible to play the game in high resolutions and in widescreen format.

16. Remove the Baldur's Gate I installation if you wish - it's done its job!

(Before step 10, you could have removed the original BG1's directory, and it would have been okay because BG2 contains the trilogy now.)

Here[www.straferight.com] is a A very detailed guide on how to get hamachi working for bg sessions.

Make sure your firewall permits, because you might connect but crash a lot due to anti-virus firewall settings. (windows defender being the main culpurit for two of our player sessions when they tried to join)

Ports to forward on both TCP and UDP (if you're hosting).

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I should add an intro to why we're installing everything this way, TLDR I'm going to make a playdate post about this, for people that want to play BGT, people that tweak out of the ordinary won't be compatible with other players' multiplayer, this guide is not the best, but the most vanilla way to play BGT for compatibility among players.

Future: Going to revise this for more detail and port all the walkthroughs for hamachi here.

Also source[www.gog.com] for original guide.

Add this in a section, baldur.ini within BG2 directory, ASyncEnumeration=1 can be added under the [Multiplayer] section for less crashes? (maybe) but more lag.

Add this in a section too, http://gibberlings3.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=24798

for crashes weidu larloch's minor drain crash