Movingmoving URU offline from Win XP to a new Win 7 computer

[hhhenry]

WITHOUT having to do Minkata again. It's been sooooooo long since I installed. I found a link from 2008 that references Writer's guild as source.
Thanks!! MOUL installed with no problem.
Better clarify - moving from an old 2003 computer to a new 2012 computer

[Charura]

is there a question lurking here?

[dtierce]

It is my impression that he would like to know how to migrate the game to his new system without losing his saved game. I believe this can be accomplished by copying the save files under the program installation to the fresh install. I don't recall the exact pathname, but the offline save folder should be in the Uru Pots or UruCC folder under Program Files. I do not have Win7, but I recall discussions saying the new program installation *must* be made with Administrator privileges in that new environment. The saved files will probably need to be copied with that same privilege. Please correct me if anything I have said is inaccurate.

David Tierce

[diafero]

The easiest thing to do is to copy the old Uru folder (which is usually somewhere in C:\Program Files\Ubisoft) to the "Saved Games" folder of your Win7 user. That will copy both the game and the saved data. Tgere is no need to re-install the game.

I do not have Win7, but I recall discussions saying the new program installation *must* be made with Administrator privileges in that new environment. The saved files will probably need to be copied with that same privilege

The best thing to do is to put stuff into your suer folder, so Uru doesn't need administrator privileges.

[Sirius]

If you want to copy your saved games from one Uru folder to another, copy these folders:
- "SAV" folder. This include almost everything.
- "KIImages". This includes KI shots, but isn't required if you use the Offline KI
- "MyJournals". Contains your personal journal you find on Relto.
- "MyMusic" (not required). Contains the music files you added to be played on the Relto music box.
There might be more files to copy if you use the Offline-KI, but you should have basically everything.

Note: when running Uru on Windows 7, you lose all the reverb effects (EAX).
Uru might also crash if you take a KI-shot. This can be solved by downloading the no-cd patch from Drizzle.

[hhhenry]

Thanks!! I am in the final stages (agonys) of the move to the new computer - the last part is games.

[hhhenry]

Not that easy - so far by far
Diafero's solution - play uru - "unable to open file error #"

I installed complete chronicles from the cds, merged the folders Sirius listed plus any folder that wasn't there and anything to do with drizzle
Opened Drizzle - redirected the file location, Redirected the site location, downloaded and installed age list and no cd patch (it worked)
(Found the notes on Win7/Vista glitches reffed in Drizzle and patched them)
Tried to download the latest ki several times but in kept stopping about a third of the way thru. I found that I had to disable my entire security software, PC tools Internet Security, in order to download ages. Also, that some folder I moved over had all the downloads but I still have to use Drizzle to install.
Opened the game, found my character - It looks like I've completed all the paths but the Relto is bare and my book is empty of pages. (Except for Relto pages from Drizzle and fireflies.) All the clothing I found/earned is there too.
Perhaps the file/folder merge was a bad idea. Delete and replace whole sav folder might be a better idea. No, that didn't help

[Jojon]

For what it's worth, I made the exact transition just the other day and I just plugged in the harddrive from my old XP computer and ran PotS from right there...

[hhhenry]

So, I have everything except:
No pages (except the ones from drizzle)
No stone rings, sparks etc
What file or folder do I transfer in to get those back????

[Sirius]

Hmmm, all these problems might come from the SDL... Make sure the file SDL/Personal.sdl is the same in your new version (if you installed the lastest Offline-KI it should be the case).