Internal Error in Blackwell games

[stusouth]

I received this error message in each of the 4 Blackwell games

Error message on startup:

Adventure Game Studio
"An internal error has occurred. Please not down the following information. If the problem persists, post the details on the AGS Technical Forum. (ACI version 3.21.1115)
Error: save_game: unable to open savegame file for writing"

[Khris]

AGS is trying to create the reset save game and fails. A possible reason is the file path; since save games are created within the user folder, a user name that contains special characters might cause problems.
You can also take a look at this:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=47936.0

Which Windows version are you using? Did you try running the game as Admin?

[stusouth]

I am running Windows 7 as administrator.

[Khris]

What about other AGS games? Does this happen only for the Blackwell games, or is it a general problem?
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/

[Crimson Wizard]

I remember there was very similar problem reported about a month or so ago. That time it appeared that the savegame folder (or its contents) was tagged as "Read-only" for some reason.

The game saves should be located at C:/Users/<Your username>/Saved Games/<Name of the game>/.
I think its worth checking that neither folder nor any of the files there have "read-only" attribute.

E: lol that was exactly the solution Khris gave a link to. Err, well.