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I know how you feel. I work in a computer games store and we've spent the
last couple of days dealing with disgruntled customers who cant get their
games to work properly. Not much fun I can assure you.

I know some of the guys that worked on Baldurs Gate post to this ng so I'd
also like to use this opportunity to let you know exactly how much this
sucks and how annoyed the Australian public are when a product is released
in this condition. I know Australia is not considered a big money-spinner
compared to other regions of the world but I'd like to assure everyone that
works at Interplay and Black Isle that I'll think twice before buying or
recommending one of your products in future.

Valkyrie




Jiro Sumitomo wrote in message <7hvpi6$d0s$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au>...
>Hello,
>
>Got my hands on TOTSC here in Australia yesterday. Upon clicking on
>"Play", was greeted with the message "This version runs only in Canada and
>the USA" or words to that effect. After about 30 seconds of mild panic,
>I just changed the Languages in the Regional Settings to English(US), and
>got it working. The problem with this is that the change affects certain
>properties (dates, etc) of other applications. So what I want to know is,
>is there another way of getting around this, or is there a patch
>available?
>
>disgruntled,
>
>ts
>

Jiro  Sumitomo (zzjsumit@uq.net.au) wrote:
: Hello,

: Got my hands on TOTSC here in Australia yesterday. Upon clicking on
: "Play", was greeted with the message "This version runs only in Canada and
: the USA" or words to that effect. After about 30 seconds of mild panic,
: I just changed the Languages in the Regional Settings to English(US), and
: got it working. The problem with this is that the change affects certain
: properties (dates, etc) of other applications. So what I want to know is,
: is there another way of getting around this, or is there a patch
: available?

What you can do, is go into the control panel, and choose "Regional
Settings."  There you can change all the settings (currency, date format,
etc.) individually, but the system will still let you play Baldur's Gate. 
Hope this helps!




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Paul Chauvet
chauve49@engr.newpaltz.edu
SUNY New Paltz		
http://www.newpaltz.edu/fencing  
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Send it to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg - Ray Muzyka, the CE of BioWare often
responds to posts there about Baldur's Gate.

Cheers
m.a.r.k.
mark_kemp@bigpond.com
ICQ address: 36663572


valkyrie <valkyrie@astro.com.au> wrote in message
news:7hvu79$obj$1@news.iinet.net.au...
| I know how you feel. I work in a computer games store and we've spent the
| last couple of days dealing with disgruntled customers who cant get their
| games to work properly. Not much fun I can assure you.
|
| I know some of the guys that worked on Baldurs Gate post to this ng so I'd
| also like to use this opportunity to let you know exactly how much this
| sucks and how annoyed the Australian public are when a product is released
| in this condition. I know Australia is not considered a big money-spinner
| compared to other regions of the world but I'd like to assure everyone
that
| works at Interplay and Black Isle that I'll think twice before buying or
| recommending one of your products in future.
|
| Valkyrie
|
|
|
|
| Jiro Sumitomo wrote in message <7hvpi6$d0s$1@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au>...
| >Hello,
| >
| >Got my hands on TOTSC here in Australia yesterday. Upon clicking on
| >"Play", was greeted with the message "This version runs only in Canada
and
| >the USA" or words to that effect. After about 30 seconds of mild panic,
| >I just changed the Languages in the Regional Settings to English(US), and
| >got it working. The problem with this is that the change affects certain
| >properties (dates, etc) of other applications. So what I want to know is,
| >is there another way of getting around this, or is there a patch
| >available?
| >
| >disgruntled,
| >
| >ts
| >
|
|

There is a patch of sorts

It is at www.bgchronicles.com it is called bgmain2uk.exe and it will unlock
that US and Canadian version.

I have used it and it works

Regards John

paul chauvet <chauve49@matrix.newpaltz.edu> wrote in message
news:3744bbe9.0@motss...
> Jiro  Sumitomo (zzjsumit@uq.net.au) wrote:
> : Hello,
>
> : Got my hands on TOTSC here in Australia yesterday. Upon clicking on
> : "Play", was greeted with the message "This version runs only in Canada
and
> : the USA" or words to that effect. After about 30 seconds of mild panic,
> : I just changed the Languages in the Regional Settings to English(US),
and
> : got it working. The problem with this is that the change affects certain
> : properties (dates, etc) of other applications. So what I want to know
is,
> : is there another way of getting around this, or is there a patch
> : available?
>
> What you can do, is go into the control panel, and choose "Regional
> Settings."  There you can change all the settings (currency, date format,
> etc.) individually, but the system will still let you play Baldur's Gate.
> Hope this helps!
>
>
>
>
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> Paul Chauvet
> chauve49@engr.newpaltz.edu
> SUNY New Paltz
> http://www.newpaltz.edu/fencing
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