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> On May 3, 8:00 am, "DotNettie" <msdimpnospample....DeleteThis@localnet.com>
> wrote:
>> I had a drive fail on me; the game was on a backup drive. I reinstalled
>> from
>> the game disks and then restored NWN2 over the newly installed game....
>
> Not sure what "restored NWN2 over the newly installed game" means.
> Also not sure what "game was on a backup drive" means - you originally
> installed the game on a removable drive?
> Or you copied NWN2 files onto the backup drive?
> Can you elaborate on the steps you took (and the operating system)?
>
>> mistake. It would not run. Got to the unpacking module and just hung.
>> So, I went to Control panel, add remove programs, uninstalled the game;
>> just
>> used the restored game and it kinda runs, but not well.
>
>> I searched the web to find how to manually uninstall NWN2, but was not
>> successful. I found how to do NWN only. Several people asked the question
>> in
>> some of the forums, but question remains unanswered.
>>
>> Can someone here advise how to manually uninstall the game? Thanks.
>
> Assuming WinXP/2000, and assuming you have only set up 1 account,
> which will have admin rights, and with the caveat that i have not
> tried this myself - it's simply an educated guess:
>
> I'd imagine you'll want to go to C:\programs\NeverwinterNights2 (or
> whatever it's called) and rename the folder.
> Then go to C:\documents and settings\<user - whatever your user name
> is>\My Documents\NWN2 and rename that, as well. I might have the
> paths slightly off (might be in Application data\NWN2 instead of My
> documents - at work currently)
>
> Then reinstall NWN2 from the game disks. Finally, search for the most
> recent saved game in your renamed folder in My documents\NWN2\save.
> Do a search for other files in both of the renamed folders (in My
> documents and Program files) and copy over each file with that same
> modified date into it's corresponding path in your new NWN2 install.
>
> If you are able to get your saved game to work, then it is safe to
> delete the files in the two renamed folders.
>
Sorry, if my post was messy but I was really ticked. But, on a new drive, I
reinstalled NWN2 with original disks; I then assumed by restoring NWN2 from
a backup drive, it would do just that...restore the game to the settings
where they had been before. This tactic did not work. The game hung and
quite frankly I could remember if I had patched it or not, which might have
been an issue.
So, I uninstalled the game thru Control Panel and restored the game from the
backup drive alone, but it was quirky and it appeared with no means to
remove it. There was nothing in Control Panel, nothing on the Start menu
programs list and I just didn't want to delete the folder. PC is Win XP SP2
So, I "regedited" it out of my PC. My saved games were saved elsewhere so
they were intact; I downloaded that latest patch ran the game and all seems
to be well.
I am grateful for your post and will retain the info you provided for future
reference in the event this happens again. Thanks a lot.
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