@Cryshal -- try running JUST the trainer as admin (right click on trainer, Run as Admin) and not the game itself. I have no idea why DA2 would be looking in different places for the savegames based on the Run as command. If that doesn't work, then something on your PC is blocking the trainer from running properly, most likely AV, firewall or other security software that needs to be disabled/uninstalled.
Trainer works fine if I play the game as admin.
I tried a work-around. I went into System in Control Panel and using Action Center, I changed my user account to never notify. And restarted the computer. In the game, I gave myself as much gold as allowed, that's about 200,000. And gave all characters extra attribute and ability points. I then returned to Action Center and reset my user account, because I want the safety of using that. For now, that's the best I can do.
I will let my son take a look at my problem when he comes by Friday. He has more computer savy than I go.
You don't have to go through all that jazz. Merely right-clicking the trainer/game and choosing 'run as administrator' accomplishes the exact same thing. No need to have to swap back and forth between settings, restarting in between Other than UAC settings, security software is the single most common cause of trainer issues, as PWizard is continually pointing out.
Earlier in the thread he pointed out that with UAC turned on, the game will no longer recognized his save game when he runs as administrator (due to permission problems). On Vista and 7, two programs must either be running as administrator or as a standard user (not one as admin and the other as standard) to be used together. I've had the same issues using Ventrilo and some of my games.
Since the trainer by default was designed to always be launched as administrator (I downloaded and looked at it), so must the game. If a program was hardcoded to always do this, you cannot override it as the end user. For some reason, the save file does not have the proper permissions to be used by Administrator which is where his problem is (if game does not have proper permissions, it will not recognized nor display his save game when he goes to load it). You have to either disable UAC or use an ICACLS command to reset both user and Administrator to have full rights to it.
[Edited by Neo7, 3/9/2011 6:46:19 AM]
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