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[thecarrotdude]

This all started when I was starting a new game and I tried to choose the 'Lord' character class. When I got to alignment I couldn't select anything. Later I figured out that if I went to control panel > user accounts > turn user account off (after restarting computer) that I could select an alignment and continue on to play the game. (Btw for any character class kit not from a mod (so all the classes that are found in the original game) I could choose an alignment and play the game). So then I decided to turn user account back on again, because I already made a character and started a game and saved it. The problem is that I can't save games anymore without turning user account off. If I quicksave it the screen goes to the desktop screen and says "Save game failed, do you want to quit?". If I try to save by pressing save on another slot then I cant click on the 'save' just like I couldn't click on 'Lawful good' alignment in my character creation for a paladin lord.
So I am getting these problems if I turn user account off and my computer warns me to keep it on as a safety measure. I would rather keep it on. Any solutions to this problem? Has anyone encountered this before? (Remember my OS is windows vista)

[Hoppy]

Wow, the only way I could install BG1 and do some BGT installs on Vista was to turn the account control off. I was using the 5 CD and Xpansion so maybe that was why. I play the game with the account control off and the world still turns...

[Jarno Mikkola]

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Why in the frell would you to turn it on again? Cause you'll be doing yourself harm this way...

I don't know the actual right way of doing this, but you could try this: turn the UAC off, redirecting(copy/paste) the game directory to different directory(something that starts with C:/ but doesn't have the 'Program Files' in it, for example; C:/games/BG2) then editing the baldur.ini in C:/games/BG2 so it has this, and:

[Alias]
HD0:=C:\games\BG2\
CD1:=C:\games\BG2\CD1\
CD2:=C:\games\BG2\CD2\;C:\games\BG2\CD2\
CD3:=C:\games\BG2\CD3\
CD4:=C:\games\BG2\CD4\
CD5:=C:\games\BG2\CD5\

instead of the usual... then try the game that it runs.
Then you need to go to the file Properties and turn off the Read-only flag. If done right, this allows you to save, and then you can turn the UAC on again...

[thecarrotdude]

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Why in the frell would you to turn it on again? Cause you'll be doing yourself harm this way...

do you think I messed something up by turning it on?

[thecarrotdude]

Wow, the only way I could install BG1 and do some BGT installs on Vista was to turn the account control off.  I was using the 5 CD and Xpansion so maybe that was why.  I play the game with the account control off and the world still turns...

when i played bg 1 it installed and worked fine with account control off. but yea, I had to turn it off to extract mod files straight to the bgII root folder. I could have copy and pasted but I figured it was better to turn it off.

[Jarno Mikkola]

do you think I messed something up by turning it on?

Well as it's meant to prevent programs being deleted or overwritten by non-administeratorial users that don't know what they are doing, I would say that it prevents your usage(saving etc.), nothing more. Unless you...

As I gave you the advice, it goes around the UAC by;
1) Allowing you to use the space to more than to read-only stage.
2) The C:\Program Files\ has been especially protected by the UAC to never to be allowed to be open to anything but read-only stage, and thus also it's sub-folders, thus the game folder and the save folder. The idiot Macrosoft people and their tricks.