Saving issue?

[Ragin Cajun]

Haven't played BG2 in ages but keep seeing it pop up in various discussions all over the board. I went to reinstall the other day and a problem I was hoping someone could help with...

I have Vista.
Installed the game with no apparent issues.
Able to open, load and play game.
Issue occurs when the game auto-saves and when I save directly...

1. When the auto-save occurs, the game downsizes and I have a popup window saying the save failed and asks if I want to shut down the game. I can select no, and open the game back up and continue playing with no problem. However, this happens 100% of the time that an auto-save occurs.
2. When I choose to manually save a game, if I save in a new save spot, there is no issue. However, if I try to overwrite a saved game then I get the same popup that I detailed in example 1.

Also, it appears that the auto save IS actually saving from what I can tell. My attempts to overwrite saves DO NOT overwrite.

Any ideas? Something to do with running the game as administrator maybe?

[errk]

Did you install the latest patch?

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Do you have it installed under Program Files? 'Cos BG/BG2 doesn't like C:/Program Files/etc.
Try a reinstall in a new custom directory (i.e. make a new folder in your C drive along the lines of C:/Games/BG2etc) and that apparently removes most of the Vista hassles. I did so after researching it a bit before I decided to try BG2 again and it's worked fine for me, and I've modded it heaps.
Good luck.

[Ragin Cajun]

I have had to install other games under a different path. I did get the saves to work by running it as administrator. That seems to be the requiem for anything under Program Files.