Dominions 3 Oddity

SirMu · #1 April 19th, 2011, 01:49 AM

I go to play Dominions 3 today, on a computer I've played it upon many times before, and to my surprise it asks for the CD key. I type it in and get to the main screen, only to find that I have no saved games or mods downloaded! They're all still in the folders they are supposed to be in, but for some reason they game isn't picking up on them. What is going on?

Oh, and for the record, my maps are still there.

Edit: It appears that dominions 3 decided to spontaneously create new mod and savedgames folders elsewhere in my computer. Still no idea what caused it.

Chacal · #2 April 19th, 2011, 11:09 AM

Someone with high stealth attribute messed up your computer...

Gregstrom · #3 April 19th, 2011, 11:46 AM

Windows 7?

brxbrx · #4 April 19th, 2011, 11:55 AM

check your savedgames folder, to see if they're still there. twould suck of they were baleeted. If that happened to me, I'd cry

NaivePhilosopher · #5 April 19th, 2011, 04:02 PM

If you're on windows, running it as an administrator when you normally don't, or vice versa, will have that effect.

Loren · #6 April 19th, 2011, 05:09 PM

You've got it installed in Program Files and it's not running as admin.

SirMu · #7 April 19th, 2011, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Gregstrom

Windows 7?

Yes, actually.

Thanks to everyone who responded. Nothing was lost, and I actually prefer the new spot, as it's now in program files and it was not previously.

JonBrave · #8 April 20th, 2011, 03:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SirMu

I go to play Dominions 3 today, on a computer I've played it upon many times before
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Still no idea what caused it.

Congrats, you became a full-fledged Administrator of your machine.