CLUA annoyance- won't let me save .ini file...

HappyInsomniac · #1 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 07:40 AM

This is a two-parter:
I opened the .ini file and put in the Debug Mode=1. Now when I go to save it it says:

Cannot create the C:\program files\black isle\bgII- SOA\baldur.ini file
Make sure that the path name and file are correct.

I'm really bad at computer things, so forgive me if it's something obvious and I'm not catching it. All I did was open it (with notepad), put the line in, and hit save.

Part 2:
This amazing help:

All the CLUA commands - GameBanshee Forums

doesn't tell me how to add the unseeing eye as a monster. I reloaded a quick save right after I got him (him? it?) after putting the device together and now he's nowhere to be found. I've looked everywhere in the dungeon and went back all around where Tad was upstairs. I even opened the lich sarcophagus thinking that might bring him out of hiding (no).

Any help? I promise I looked in the search before I asked.

Rabain · #2 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 11:47 AM

Use this in the CLUA console:

CLUAConsole:CreateCreature("BHEYE")

The creature should appear wherever your mouse pointer is at...or the nearest valid floor space.

galraen · #3 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 12:17 PM

Your first problem could be because the file is set to 'read only'. Find the file in My Computer, right click on it and select properties. There's a 'Read only' check box at the bottom, make sure it isn't checked, if it is un-check it.

If this doesn't help, let me know, either here or by PM and I'll try to figure it out.

HappyInsomniac · #4 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 03:47 PM

Ooo BHEYE. Yah! Now I'll get em.

And:
Rats, it wasn't checked. Maybe I should check it

. Another problem is maybe I'm running AWFUL AWFUL Vista. Is that anything? I switched it to Compatability Mode for Windows XP and tried again, but nada.

I guess I'm doomed not to stick a fork in that big eyeball.

HappyInsomniac · #5 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 03:50 PM

This may be something as well: It's trying to save it as a .txt document even though it's an .ini. Is that anything? I switched it to save as .txt to save as All Files, and it said do I want to overwrite, but then it gave me the same error message as before.
So close, yet so far...

galraen · #6 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 07:48 PM

Well I've never had any experience with Vista, so I'm flying by the seat of my pants here. If it's not set to read only, then the only other thing that occurs to me is that it's a rights issue, as in you don't have the necessary rights to change files, either in that directory or on that PC.

Some questions:

1. Is it your computer, and are you the only user?

2. Did you or someone else install Shadows of Amn?

I'm going to suggest to a moderator that this thread be moved to the Tech support forum, it's right at the bottom of the main forum page. Hopefully someone that has knowledge of Vista, but wouldn't visit this forum will be able to help.

HappyInsomniac · #7 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 08:24 PM

Oooh, good. Sorry I didn't know there was a tech forum. Probably there would have been better...

It's my computer and I installed it and everything. My computer is hooked up to my husband's computer in his room by a... ugh. A thing that hooks up computers, I can't think of the name. But the internet cable box is on his cpu and mine is like a secondary off of that (like, if his cpu is off, I can't get files off his cpu), if this means ANYTHING.

(just trying to think of anything it might be.)

Thanks so much for all the help!!

Oooh, "Router" is the word. The rooms are connected by a router. I think.

galraen · #8 (**permalink**) 08-16-2007, 08:38 PM

Who installed the operating system (VIsta)?

When you start up the computer do you have to log on or is it automatic?

If you have to log on, are there more than one user on your computer?

HappyInsomniac · #9 (**permalink**) 08-17-2007, 12:05 PM

The Vista was already on the computer, I think. Unless that's what I paid the Geek Squad @ Best Buy to do right after I bought it. They took it and had it for an hour doing something. Maybe that's when they installed the Vista.

If I turn it on, it just goes right to the desktop. I don't have to log on and it's just my computer. Husband & I learned our lesson fighting over game time for Diablo II.

galraen · #10 (**permalink**) 08-17-2007, 12:53 PM

That makes it less likely that it's a 'rights' issue, but I can't think of anything else it could be.

If it was XP I'd say go to the control panel, open user accounts and make sure you were set to administratr, and not a limited user, not sure how that works in Vista.

I'm sorry I haven't been able to be mmore helpful, I suggest you open up a new thread in tech support, for some reason the moderator hasn't moved the thread as requested. I'd advise doing a searsh on that forum first though, moderaters tend to get upset if we don't try that first.

HappyInsomniac · #11 (**permalink**) 08-17-2007, 04:29 PM

Thanks for the helpful advice! I went and changed the entire BG- SOA folder to compatability for XP. That's when it again said file exists- overwrite? (or something to that effect) and when I said yes, it gave me the same error. I guess it has something to do with Vista. Argh.

I posted it in tech support linking this thread.
Many thanks for the help!
*However you make little hearts* Hee.