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Posted May 01, 2014
Hi I recently purchased The Witcher 2 EE, and saw that you are able to make a DVD backup of the game. I'm having a bit of trouble doing so. I tried just now by putting in the first 0 - 3 bin. files, including the application on my first DVD and it got burned. When I tried to see if the burn was successful by using the setup application on the DVD I get a message saying "Installer needs next part (.BIN) file". It then says "Please specify the location of part 11 and click OK". I don't know how I'm suppose to get part 11 when that would be on the next DVD.

If someone can help/guide me through this with steps, that would be great as i have never made a backup of a game before.
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Posted May 01, 2014
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If you run the installer from the DVD, it's going to look in that location (e.g D:\ drive) for all parts of the installer. Were you actually able to start the installer, or did it say it needed part x before starting the installation process? I'm thinking that it needs to read from multiple .bin files at once, hence they all need to be in the same location before installation starts.

By creating a DVD backup of the installers (using multiple DVDs), to install the game you'd have to copy all the parts of the installer into the same folder on your hard drive, then run the installer from there instead of the DVD. The best thing to do would be download the installer files to your computer, install the game, then burn the installer files to respective DVDs after.

The convenience of backing up the installer files to DVDs is that you don't need to download them again in case you reinstall in the future, but The Witcher 2 is a huge game so unfortunately the entire installer won't fit on one disc (like the majority of games on GOG, especially older ones).
Posted May 01, 2014
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mondo84: If you run the installer from the DVD, it's going to look in that location (e.g D:\ drive) for all parts of the installer. Were you actually able to start the installer, or did it say it needed part x before starting the installation process? I'm thinking that it needs to read from multiple .bin files at once, hence they all need to be in the same location before installation starts.

By creating a DVD backup of the installers (using multiple DVDs), to install the game you'd have to copy all the parts of the installer into the same folder on your hard drive, then run the installer from there instead of the DVD. The best thing to do would be download the installer files to your computer, install the game, then burn the installer files to respective DVDs after.

The convenience of backing up the installer files to DVDs is that you don't need to download them again in case you reinstall in the future, but The Witcher 2 is a huge game so unfortunately the entire installer won't fit on one disc (like the majority of games on GOG, especially older ones).
I was unable to start the installer before it asked for part 11. If I understand where you are coming from, your saying to continue to copy the the rest of the bin. files on DVDs. Then if I wanted to play the game again in the future just copy the files from the multiple discs into one File on my HDD and the intsall that way?
Posted May 01, 2014
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UnderAbyss: I was unable to start the installer before it asked for part 11. If I understand where you are coming from, your saying to continue to copy the the rest of the bin. files on DVDs. Then if I wanted to play the game again in the future just copy the files from the multiple discs into one File on my HDD and the intsall that way?
Yea. Basically, when you launch an installer it checks to see that all the .bin (data) files are present in the same directory as the executable file. If they're not all present, the installation won't continue.

So you can certainly back up the .bin files onto DVDs, but when you want to install the game in the future you'll first need to copy all the files from the DVDs into the same directory (e.g. "c:\gog\witcher_2_installer").

Since it's such a large game it's a bit of an anomaly. One thing to also consider is that if you have a portable external hard drive, you can store your GOG installer files on that and run them from the external drive instead of copying from DVD to your internal hard drive.

Either way, you have the right idea in backing up the files!
Posted May 01, 2014
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UnderAbyss: I was unable to start the installer before it asked for part 11. If I understand where you are coming from, your saying to continue to copy the the rest of the bin. files on DVDs. Then if I wanted to play the game again in the future just copy the files from the multiple discs into one File on my HDD and the intsall that way?
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mondo84: Yea. Basically, when you launch an installer it checks to see that all the .bin (data) files are present in the same directory as the executable file. If they're not all present, the installation won't continue.

So you can certainly back up the .bin files onto DVDs, but when you want to install the game in the future you'll first need to copy all the files from the DVDs into the same directory (e.g. "c:\gog\witcher_2_installer").

Since it's such a large game it's a bit of an anomaly. One thing to also consider is that if you have a portable external hard drive, you can store your GOG installer files on that and run them from the external drive instead of copying from DVD to your internal hard drive.

Either way, you have the right idea in backing up the files!
Thanks for the help!
Posted May 01, 2014
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UnderAbyss: Thanks for the help!
No problem - have fun with the game! :)
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