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Originally posted by Ningauble:
Hi, found this thread on the search engine and it relates to my problem. I think I've read about this before so it must be fairly common.
Just went to play SoA and for maybe the third or fourth time when start up a game instead of "Play" my option is "Install" and clicking that won't do anything. So my only choice is to unintall the game and then reinstall it playing musical discs for ten minutes.
I made backups of everything in the two save folders, the portraits folder, the character folder and the override folder. (0ver 7megs!)
But what I want to know is why this happens? Why does BGIISoA just sometimes decide it's not installed enough to play, but too installed to uninstall?
Does that last line make sense?
I played with this problem for quite some time.I know on my system my Norton Utilities(windoctor) would mes up my BG SOA windows path every time I ran it.My norton Windows Registry fixer upper program would tell me about an invalid path and ask if I would want to fix it.Ofcourse I would say yes and all of a sudden my SOA would ask me to install.Yet everything was right there on my hard drive.I still run my norton,I just don,t have it fix that preticular error.Works just fine.No more re-installing 4x a week.I don,t know if that would be your problem as well.If you do have any of these programs turn them off and run them manualy when you need to.They eat alot of precious gaming mem and don,t always get along well with the operating system.Too many programs trying to be the boss can really slow down a system.
