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Problems with SoA

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Problems with SoA

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Recently, I was having some problems with Shadows of Amn. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and this is where I ran into some problems.

After uninstalling, I put the disc into my drive, planning on reinstalling the game. But the launch menu came up, and install wasn't in the options. It had the options I would have had if I hadn't uninstalled the game(Play, Configure, etc.)

When I clicked on the Play option, a message would come up saying I should configure the game before playing, but when I pressed OK, the configuration menu didn't come up. Also, none of the other options on the launch menu work.

I checked my C drive, and found that I still had a Shadows of Amn folder in my programfiles/blackisle. But it was empty. I figure I have to restore these files in order for Shadows of Amn to work again. But, I don't know how I'm supposed to get them. I can't install the game, since it says that it isn't uninstalled.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Or perhaps a place to get the game files back, without having to buy a whole new copy of the game?
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Post by galraen »

It looks like you have a corrupt registry, buying a new game won't help. Hopefully one of our members is a registry expert and can help. Maybe this thread should be in the technical support forum.
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Post by fable »

No expert I, but this has worked for me:

Type regedit in the Run field, and run it.

Do a registry backup.

Do a search for all mentions of baldur. Delete each as it occurs.

Exit, and reboot. See if that helps.
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Post by Grombag »

As an alternitive for Fable's story you could also follow this path.
Note that a registry backup isn't listed there, but is a good thing ;) . Even so use this with care. If done wrong, it comes back to bite you.... HARD
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Post by Tate »

Thank you, everyone, for replying. A special thanks to Grombag for the link! I followed the directions there, and it worked. :)
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