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A NearINfinity Conundrum

HagridoreHagridore Member Posts: 4
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Greetings, Players! I am playing the original Baldur's Gate. I played through a long time ago and then started playing again after using GateKeeper and NearInfinity to make a few modifications. Way back then it worked just fine. Unfortunately, I have since lost the hard drives those games were on. My problem is that I think I'm missing a step or something. I have a game I've saved and know I have to open that game in NearInfinity to make the changes I want to make. The game shows up when I run GateKeeper and it is obviously there to be played when I run the game itself. But for some reason when I try to find it either by running NearInfinity or by going directly to the file structure of my hard drive the saved game just doesn't appear to be anywhere on my system. I'm sure it's there...I just don't know why I can't see it or find it. Can anyone help? I really don't want to run through the game without making the few changes I want to make, and I really want to run though this game again.

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  • argent77argent77 Member Posts: 3,497
    Do you have installed your game into "C:\Program Files" or "C:\Program Files (x86)"? Those folders are specially protected by modern Windows systems and any files (including saved games) will be automatically redirected somewhere well hidden into your user's profile folder. I'd strongly suggest to re-install it somewhere else, for example into C:\Games.
  • FranpaFranpa Member Posts: 637
    edited March 2016
    It will save your save game in to your My Documents folder regardless of where you've installed the game. Almost no game these days (Since around 2004) offers decent support for Single User environments/stores program related data in the programs own folder :/

    Makes backups a pain because you have to do shit to your Windows partition (like moving files to another partition) before formatting it or else you risk losing stuff you want to keep, where as back in the day you could format and reinstall Windows super quick with no mucking about and with absolutely no risk of losing save games and stuff in the process if you install your software to a separate partition to Windows!
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  • BelgarathMTHBelgarathMTH Member Posts: 5,653
    BTW, you can work around the "Program Files (x86)" problem by disabling User Account Controls (UAC) in your Control Panel. I did that the day after I got a Windows 7 computer, and I've had no problems keeping all my (heavily modded) games in their default install locations (usually in "Program Files (x86)") ever since.
  • BelanosBelanos Member Posts: 968
    BelgarathMTH said:

    BTW, you can work around the "Program Files (x86)" problem by disabling User Account Controls (UAC) in your Control Panel. I did that the day after I got a Windows 7 computer, and I've had no problems keeping all my (heavily modded) games in their default install locations (usually in "Program Files (x86)") ever since.

    That's not a fool proof solution, there are still other security systems in place that can interfere with some games, especially when adding mods. The best bet is to not install any games in those folders in the first place.
    Franpa said:


    Makes backups a pain because you have to do shit to your Windows partition (like moving files to another partition before formatting it) or else you risk losing stuff you want to keep, where as back in the day you could format and reinstall Windows super quick with no mucking about and with absolutely no risk of losing save games and stuff in the process!

    It's simple enough to move your entire Documents folder to a new location, and just leave it there if you choose. Just find the folder in Windows Explorer, then right click and select Properties. You'll see a Tab called Location that allows you to move it anywhere you want it to go. Windows will even move all your files for you. It's not a pain at all.

  • HagridoreHagridore Member Posts: 4
    Thanks, y'all! I was unable to find the save file anywhere, even using Windows Explorer. But I moved the folder to the root directory of C drive and viola', my new game shows up there!!! Now I seem to have forgotten how to make the changes I want to make stick. Mostly I'm changing numbers of things that can be in a stack. I know how to use NearInfinity to find the item, edit it, and save it. But after I do this, it appears the changes have gone and everything's back to the default. I noted something about decompressing and then recompressing, but when I do the decompress and then edit thing, it appears what can be edited doesn't have anything to do with items, etc. I know I've done this before, but I'm not remembering. Any ideas?
  • GallowglassGallowglass Member Posts: 3,356
    Hmm ... is your savegame file flagged "Read Only", by any chance?
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