I recently install Space Empires V via Steam on my Windows 7 x64 machine. It starts up and runs fine, but whenever I try to save a file, whether an empire file or a save game I get an unable to save file error followed by either a crash or a hang. It is currently installed in: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SpaceEmpiresV\SE5. I did not see an option to install the application in user space when C:\Users\xyz\ when installing the game. I also experience the same behavior even after I ran Steam as Administrator. I have checked the Steam forums for the game and no one has reported this issue, and others reported being able to run the app on Windows 7 reasonably well.
Error 1 (always)
Error 2 (sometimes, other times a hang that requires me to kill the app.
My game folder:
Directory of C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\SpaceEmpiresV\SE5 05/26/2014 08:05 PM . 05/26/2014 08:05 PM .. 05/26/2014 05:29 PM Data 05/26/2014 05:29 PM Docs 05/26/2014 05:29 PM Empires 05/26/2014 05:30 PM Fonts 05/26/2014 05:29 PM GameTypes 05/26/2014 05:30 PM 129,953 history.txt 05/26/2014 05:29 PM Music 05/26/2014 05:29 PM Pictures 05/26/2014 05:31 PM 3,565 readme.txt 05/26/2014 05:32 PM Scenarios 05/26/2014 05:32 PM 4,559,872 SE5.exe 05/26/2014 05:32 PM 22,515,422 SE5Manual.pdf 05/26/2014 05:32 PM 6,452 SFI License Agreement.txt 05/26/2014 05:32 PM Sounds 05/26/2014 08:05 PM Temp 05/26/2014 05:29 PM Utilities 05/26/2014 05:32 PM 53,248 zlib.dll 6 File(s) 27,268,512 bytes 13 Dir(s) 327,785,889,792 bytes free
Best Answer
Based on this forum thread I was able to fix it.