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[Aosher]

I have a few things that I want to edit in NI, but I, uh. I can't find my save files. At all.

I mean, they're clearly there in the game, I just can't find the files in order to edit them in NI. I have a few copies of Baldur.GAM, but none of them seem to do the trick - [BGII - SOA / override] and [BGII - SOA / BGT / Base / Misc] are the two that I've tried but there's just nothing there. Equally, I have no Save directory and nothing in my MPSave directory, and no sign of any of my save files anywhere. So I'm a bit perplexed.

I'm possibly using NI incorrectly - this is my first time with it - but the fact that I can't find the files in the directories themselves is also a bit confusing. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks.

[Jarno Mikkola]

Now, are you sure you are using the NI right, open the NI and then click the upper left corners Game, take the Open Game... and take the BG2's (that you installed the BGT into) CHITIN.KEY file and select Open. Then Open the "Save" directory on the list by double clicking it, and then it gives you directories that start with 0000...-<inserted save name> , double click it and vola there is a BALDUR.GAM file there, and then you select that, push Edit...

[Aosher]

Pretty sure. As you can see from the screenie, NI is displaying no "save" directory...



Which is possibly because there is no save directory?



The saves definitely exist somewhere, because the game is drawing upon them, I just can't find them anywhere.

Edited by Aosher, 20 July 2009 - 03:38 PM.

[Jarno Mikkola]

The saves definitely exist somewhere, because the game is drawing upon them, I just can't find them anywhere.

Well yeah, but you are using Vista, and you have installed the game into the Program Files folder, a huge mistake... as all your saves could be mirrored into the hidden ProgramData sub-folder.
Edit: so they were mirrored into:

C:\Users\[...]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Black Isle\BGII - SoA\save

Vista is stupid.

Yeah, as I said, huge mistake...

Edited by Jarno Mikkola, 22 July 2009 - 08:03 AM.

[Kalindor]

The saves definitely exist somewhere, because the game is drawing upon them, I just can't find them anywhere.

Well yeah, but you are using Vista, and you have installed the game into the Program Files folder, a huge mistake... as all your saves could be mirrored into the hidden ProgramData sub-folder.

Turn off User Account Control in the security settings and I believe it will stop that nonsense.

[Aosher]

The saves definitely exist somewhere, because the game is drawing upon them, I just can't find them anywhere.

Well yeah, but you are using Vista, and you have installed the game into the Program Files folder, a huge mistake... as all your saves could be mirrored into the hidden ProgramData sub-folder.

I thought of that, but they're not there either...



There's also nothing in Users / AppData.

Is there any way of finding out where the game is pointing its saves towards by looking at the contents of some of the files I have access to?

Edited by Aosher, 21 July 2009 - 12:18 AM.

[Aosher]

Found it!

C:\Users\[...]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Black Isle\BGII - SoA\save

Vista is stupid.