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Posted October 24, 2012
This is more of a question than a problem. When I first tried to launch Divine Divinity, I got the message:
"Unable to write to the installation directory.
Please make sure that there is still free space on the Drive where Divinity is installed and that you have the necessary access rights."
Given that I had about 20GB free on my drive, I thought something had gone wrong in the installation, so uninstalled and redownloaded and reinstalled - same thing again, so I tried running it as an administrator and it worked perfectly.
Anyone else had this happen?
I have no real problem with running it as an administrator, but if anyone knows a fix, I'd appreciate it.
This question / problem has been solved by Raze_Larianimage
Posted October 24, 2012
A few people have had that error with Divine Divinity and Beyond Divinity. Running as administrator or installing the game to a folder other than the default Program Files path would allow the game to load.

This may be an issue with permissions in Windows, either creating the configuration files or files/folders in the users path.
Normally each save is a separate subfolder in the '..\Divine Divinity\savegames' folder.
Under Vista/7, depending on how the user accounts are set up, if the game is installed to the default Program Files path, Windows can create separate savegame folders for each user, and then map that folder to the game's savegame folder (so it will just see the saves for the relevant user).
C:\Users\ %account name% \AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Divine Divinity\savegames
Post edited October 24, 2012 by Raze_Larian
Posted October 24, 2012
As a general note a whole mess of folks, myself included, recommend installing your games somewhere other than Window's Program Files folder. For example, mine go on my second hard drive at D:\Game Files\<game name>

The other oft-mentioned general fix for many games is to change the shortcut properties by checking the box for "Run as Administrator".
Posted October 24, 2012
Yes, I got the same message, and yes, HereForTheBeer's suggestion of checking the "run as admin" box in the properties tab of the desktop shortcut did solve the problem.

On a side note, I've seen some comments on the forum about 64-bit problems. So far I haven't seen any, and I'm running the 1.006 build on a 64-bit Vista HP Pavilion laptop.
Posted October 26, 2012
Thanks all of you, I guess it's just been my good luck that this is the first time I've had this happen.

It's a simple thing to just run all games as an administrator, just to be sure.
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