Hello,

Recently my installation of Windows crashed irreversibly. I am really tired of Windows now, so I installed Linux Mint instead.

Baldur's Gate installs and plays fine with PlayOnLinux, but not with my old savefiles from Windows. The reason for this is that I modded Baldur's Gate a bit... I ran the widescreen resolution patch, and some tweaks and bug fix patches. My question is, can I revert these savefiles to a vanilla state so that they are compatible with my current installation? Maybe if there is no way to convert them it is possible to find the data in the savefiles and generate new ones that are similar?
I tried running the patches I used using Wine, but I'm not very experienced with this kind of stuff yet. I might have been doing it wrong, but I don't think it works. Is there some way to get it to work, maybe?

I only need recover my Quicksave file.

Thanks for any help!

Bump :(

what exactly is the problem with the old saves?

game crashes?
game doesn't recognize/find them?
character/party messed up?
something else?

this would at least help figuring out what to do, i don't think conversion is possible unless you wish to edit every single global/party/etc stat individually which would be a pain in the ass to say the least, would be easier to just start the game from beginning.

The easier thing to do, would be to not convert the save-files back (there's no way to do that but for handpicking each change with an editor and reverting it back - with a 99% chance of failure if you're not adept at modding and editing BG). The easy thing would be, to rescue your old WeiDu-logfile from the hard-drive BG was installed on and re-mod your Linux game in the exact same way as you did your previous install (with the exact same versions). A problem you might run in to, is not all mods being Linux-compatible I think.

I'm afraid I can't help you with the Linux-part of things, I'm stuck to Windows as gaming is my most important activity on PC and no other system can give me the same compatibility Windows can. Alas, I say.

The screen just goes black when I try to load savefiles that I generated in Windows. I did try this approach, but the main problem is I don't think I got it all right. I might have picked a different resolution for the widescreen mod, and I can't remember if I included some addon mods, etc. Anyhow it produced the same result.