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Jekkles

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(Msg. 1) Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 2:36 pm
Post subject: BIOSHOCK - unable to save due to "Read Only" errors.
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Hi.

I bought Bioshock on release day. I played it alot up until the Fort
Frolic Area. I stopped playing for a couple of months, and the other
day i decided to go back to it.

However, i cannot load any of my save games or save any new ones, and
as such (because of the autosave feature) My game is now totally
unusable. It will always go dark and hang on any loading screen.

I now own a £40 coaster. Not happy about it.

I think this is due to the bioshock save folder in documents being set
to read only. This is an option that i cannot seem to change, if i
untick the box, and click apply, when i go back to it, it is set to
read only again. This makes sense due to bioshock needing to write
files to this folder and being unable to, therefor crashing.

I dont understand how this problem came about, and i would really
REALLY love to fix it, Any help would be appreciated it.

I have all the latest drivers for everything, and i am using Vista
Premium.

Thanks.


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(Msg. 2) Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:15 pm
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Have you been turning UAC on and off?

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> Hi.
>
> I bought Bioshock on release day. I played it alot up until the Fort
> Frolic Area. I stopped playing for a couple of months, and the other
> day i decided to go back to it.
>
> However, i cannot load any of my save games or save any new ones, and
> as such (because of the autosave feature) My game is now totally
> unusable. It will always go dark and hang on any loading screen.
>
> I now own a £40 coaster. Not happy about it.
>
> I think this is due to the bioshock save folder in documents being set
> to read only. This is an option that i cannot seem to change, if i
> untick the box, and click apply, when i go back to it, it is set to
> read only again. This makes sense due to bioshock needing to write
> files to this folder and being unable to, therefor crashing.
>
> I dont understand how this problem came about, and i would really
> REALLY love to fix it, Any help would be appreciated it.
>
> I have all the latest drivers for everything, and i am using Vista
> Premium.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 4:13 pm
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I just turned it off once, to try an resolve the issue.


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(Msg. 4) Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 8:20 pm
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OK I'm not sure where Bioshock keeps it saves games, but find the folder,
right-click on it and go to Properties -> Security. Make sure the Users
group, or your user has writable access, if not add it through Edit. You
may need to carry this out on individual saves within the folder too.

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> I just turned it off once, to try an resolve the issue.
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:24 am
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Thanks for the suggestion, but *sigh*

No dice.

What the hell is going on.


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(Msg. 6) Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2007 9:21 am
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Checked the take2 games site? Contacted them about the issue?

"Jekkles" <Jekkles.2z0jjd.DeleteThis@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message
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> Hi.
>
> I bought Bioshock on release day. I played it alot up until the Fort
> Frolic Area. I stopped playing for a couple of months, and the other
> day i decided to go back to it.
>
> However, i cannot load any of my save games or save any new ones, and
> as such (because of the autosave feature) My game is now totally
> unusable. It will always go dark and hang on any loading screen.
>
> I now own a £40 coaster. Not happy about it.
>
> I think this is due to the bioshock save folder in documents being set
> to read only. This is an option that i cannot seem to change, if i
> untick the box, and click apply, when i go back to it, it is set to
> read only again. This makes sense due to bioshock needing to write
> files to this folder and being unable to, therefor crashing.
>
> I dont understand how this problem came about, and i would really
> REALLY love to fix it, Any help would be appreciated it.
>
> I have all the latest drivers for everything, and i am using Vista
> Premium.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> --
> Jekkles
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jekkles's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/member.php?userid=33694
> View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/showthread.php?t=839297
>
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