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I was just wondering, and I am sorry if this tread been here before, but can you install CK when you are running Vista?:confused:

I am considering buying CK complete pack

I play on Vista, no problems here. Well...CK is not the most stable game out there, but at least I don't have any problems from playing on Vista. That I can tell.

Just make sure it runs with admin rights and there shouldn't be any problems.
 

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I was just wondering, and I am sorry if this tread been here before, but can you install CK when you are running Vista?:confused:

I am considering buying CK complete pack

I use CK-DV under Win7 ... runs perfectly.

Any stability issues that CK has, has to do with hardware incompatabilities, not the OS.

Just be sure in Vista, to NOT install the game in Program Files dir. Anywhere else is good.
 

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It'll work sometimes but apparently Microsoft changed the way folder permissions are handled in those folders when they implemented UAC, so you generally need admin privileges to modify stuff there. I always put all of my stuff in \Users\Public.
 

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I have CK installed in the Program Files directory, and I'm running on Vista, works fine for me.

The game should work properly if you have installed it in Program Files, but if you start looking for save-games or screenshots you will need to search very hard.
 

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The game should work properly if you have installed it in Program Files, but if you start looking for save-games or screenshots you will need to search very hard.

Or you could easily click "Compatibility Files" on your windows bar to find where they keep your save games and "cut" and "paste" it back to the original save games folder.
 

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I run CK on Vista but I always save my games to C:\Games\ to avoid the whole issue with the \Program Files\ Vista has.
 

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Or you could easily click "Compatibility Files" on your windows bar to find where they keep your save games and "cut" and "paste" it back to the original save games folder.

Sure, but one of the most common questions asked on this forum is

'where are my save-games ?'

So not everybody knows how Vista stores things. :)
 

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Sure, but one of the most common questions asked on this forum is

'where are my save-games ?'

So not everybody knows how Vista stores things. :)

So true. Even my brother once ask me the exact same thing when he wants to copy my save games :p
 

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Another option is to turn off UAC but some people may not be comfortable doing that and it's much easier to just advise not installing games in Program Files.

Installing and using mods or beta patches also tend to have problems with UAC.