OneLonelyPickle Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 I need to change the value of bEnableBorderRegion from 1 to 0, so I can remove the border limitations and thus play the new mod I downloaded, but I cannot save after changes have been made. A popup appears saying, "Access is denied". I have administrator rights, if that may have been the problem. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fonger Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 on oblivion you don't edit the default fileyou edit the oblivion.ini file directly but if you are experiencing admin rights problems you installed oblivion into the wrong directory http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia_term/0,2542,t=UAC&i=58223,00.asp fix this before continuing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlfredTetzlaff Posted September 13, 2011 Share Posted September 13, 2011 Looks like you've installed Oblivion in the default path and using Windows 7 :)UAC is blocking your edits, but you dont't need to edit the default.ini for that anyway, just make the edits to the oblivion.ini in your Documents\My Games\Oblivion folder.But to avoid further Problems with modding, consider a reinstall to something like c:\games\oblivion, outside of "ProgramFiles".BBen provideda nice guide for that right here on the nexus. Ha, Fonger beat me :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OneLonelyPickle Posted September 13, 2011 Author Share Posted September 13, 2011 (edited) Lol so Windows 7 prohibits even admins from changing settings? What a load =.= Reinstalling now, thanks guys p_p EDIT: I'm also guessing that my saves are wiped on uninstallation / reinstallation? Edited September 13, 2011 by OneLonelyPickle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Striker879 Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 (edited) Follow bben46's re-installation guide and you can save your old saves. Edited September 14, 2011 by Striker879 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDFan Posted September 14, 2011 Share Posted September 14, 2011 Lol so Windows 7 prohibits even admins from changing settings? What a load =.= Reinstalling now, thanks guys p_p EDIT: I'm also guessing that my saves are wiped on uninstallation / reinstallation? Nope -- the saves are still left in the My Documents\y Games\Oblivion folder and so should still be there unless you manually delete the folder - As is the Oblivion.ini file that you want t edit (you do not want to edit the Oblivion_default file that is in your installation folder) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gothictrwe Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 I need to change the value of bEnableBorderRegion from 1 to 0, so I can remove the border limitations and thus play the new mod I downloaded, but I cannot save after changes have been made. A popup appears saying, "Access is denied". I have administrator rights, if that may have been the problem. Thanks in advance. right-click the .ini file and go to properties, and untick read-only Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 Looks to me like UAC just saved you from a mistake. Editing the oblivion_default.ini is not what you want to do. Any edit there is not reversable - Unless you thought to back it up first. (most people don't think to do that) However, editing the Oblivion.ini in the documents \my games\Oblivion allows the oblivion_default.ini to be the back up - allowing it to reset the ini back to default when you have an ini problem. The oblivion.ini is what the game uses. the oblivion_default.ini is used to build the oblivion.ini the first time you start the game. Then as an emergency backup - by deleting the oblivion.ini, the game will automatically read the oblivion_default.ini and use that to rebuild a new Oblivion.ini. If the default is changed, you will have no backup and may well have to reinstall the game to recover. My suggestion is to make a back up of the default anyway. then make any edits on the oblivion.ini, and when you have an Oblivion.ini that works well on your computer, make a back up of that also. This is not new with Win7. UAC was started with Vista - it is a security thing - a last defense to keep a virus from making changes to an important program. MS did make it overzealous though forcing every program into the same protection when it is not needed on things like games. Then changing the definition of administrator from a user who can do anything to a user who needs to tell the Windows that they want permission to do something first. You can still get that permission as an admin, but have to ask first. For each new program, and each time you update it. Luckily, they only apply UAC to the 'program files' folders leaving all the rest free of the UAC restrictions. So, by installing the game into any other folder, you will never be bothered by UAC, and UAC will continue to protect the files in the protected folders. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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