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I have played & installed Divinity II Ego Draconis on my computer. I got DKS as a gift and want to install the new program. I understand the Orig DII and DK Saga are not compatible.

I have Win7 Home Premium and the game is installed on my second hard drive, designated as "H". I never ever install games on my "C" drive if I can help it, and this one installed and ran just fine with this setup.

I right clicked on the Ego Draconis folder in "All Programs" , clicked on uninstall and I got a pop-up window that told me "Unins000.exe has been changed or moved". Well I am not smart enough to do such a thing, you know. "Unins000.dat" is located on my "H" drive. I tried running uninstall as administrator but knew because of the nature of the message that this wouldn't work

I looked in Control Panel, the game doesn't appear there. I looked in my uninstaller and it's not there either.

I fell kinda dumb but perhaps someone can give me a hand getting the original out of my PC so I can play the new one.

Thanks.

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You should be able to install and play DKS, regardless of whether or not ED is installed. As far as removing ED is concerned, I'm not 100% sure what went wrong there so I'll have to check.

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Sigh, I hate those silly warnings, but oh well...

INCLUDES REGISTRY WORK!

Registry entry should be here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\CDCE6956-DD16-4F82-ACA0-E4C7BAD6B26A_is1

You always can delete it and the entry will disappear in Uninstall Tool. As for leftovers, they are here:
-> HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Larian Studios
-> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Larian Studios

Also, there could be sumtin from DTP, look for "dtp" or "dtpEntertainment" in those sections. That's all for the registry.

All old savegames/user options is in: c:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Divinity 2\

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Interestingly, none of the above entries appear in my registry, except for DTP entries that appear for both D2ED & Drakensang. I have several entries that are lengthy as the first one you show, but they are not even close to what you have. There are no entries for Larian that I could find. My saved games are not located where yours are, Mine are in an %appdata% roaming local folder. That's where win7 keeps them. Thanks for trying to help tho.

D.

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Just open the uninst.dat (any text editor) then and looks for the path. There are many of them.

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Just open the uninst.dat (any text editor) then and looks for the path. There are many of them.


I did what you suggested...I could not make sense of what I got when I opened the .dat file and was reluctant to muck up the works by messing with something I know zip about. You're right, there were many "paths".

However, after hours of searching around the 'net to find a solution, I performed inelegant one... used Revo Uninstaller to remove references of the game from the registry, deleted the games folder and saved games and installed DKS with not a peep from my PC or the game. I am happily playing DKS.

Thanks for trying to help & Happy Holidays.

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Exactly @ the end of the file.


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