Hey!

I am playing Worms: Armageddon under Windows 7. I knew about the trick to fix the color bug with stopping explorer.exe and it was working fine.
Although, I have some different problems and I don't know if they are related to this.

My problem is that every time I run wa.exe, my teams simply disappear.

What can be the reasons for that?

Thanks!

Is the User\Teams directory present and writable? Does running W:A as administrator solve the problem?
Are you running any anti-virus or similar software?

By some reason, Teams folder was not writeable. I am going to check it right now but I am pretty sure it will work now.
EDIT: this one was not the source of the problem, I made the whole User folder writeable but when I started WA again, the team I made disappeared.
I always run wa.exe as administrator, since I run it from the Task Manager.
I don't have any kind of anti-virus or firewall.

Please post a Process Monitor log, as described in this thread: http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=38693

http://privatepaste.com/download/1b0sXLB3UW <---versions.txt
(I already attached such file to a different topic, the forum didn't let me attach once again.)

By the way, the files properties say that it was modified at 00:20 on 1st October, and this is exactly when the problem started coming up. Should I try reinstalling WA?

Sorry, I need a Process Monitor log, look further in the same forum topic.

By the way, the files properties say that it was modified at 00:20 on 1st October, and this is exactly when the problem started coming up. Should I try reinstalling WA?Which files? And yes, you could check if a clean install (to a separate directory) would fix the problem.

I meant file's properties, the properties of WG.WGT file. I'll check it out.

EDIT: problem solved by reinstalling the game into a different folder.

Windows 7 (and Vista), by default, do not give the user write access to folders that exist outside the C:\ drive, or if you try to install to Program Files or other system-related folders.

WA would have to be run as administrator in order to write the folder it's in. Alternately, you could have right clicked the Worms Armageddon folder > properties > security tab > click on 'users' group > give it full access. It would then make it so WA can always write to that folder as a normal user.

In Vista/7, even tho you are technically the admin, you don't have admin powers without first confirming you want to use said powers (which is the purpose of 'run x as administrator'). This is a security measure that attempts to protect against the automated spread of viruses and other malware (with the help of the much maligned and somewhat annoying UAC feature).

Windows 7 (and Vista), by default, do not give the user write access to folders that exist outside the C:\ drive, or if you try to install to Program Files or other system-related folders.
You mean it doesn't give full access to the "Program Files" and "Program Files (x86)" folders right? and UAC isn't that annoying on the 2nd highest setting under Windows 7 and can be a cheap effective way to stop like your grandma from installing things (make her a user account and set UAC to highest setting so she needs a password to install things etc.).

Yeah, Program Files (and the 32-bit friendly variant) are locked out from write access by default under normal circumstances.

Since most games and applications default to those folders, legacy programs that still write their data to their own install folder (such as worms), require to be run as admin unless you actually give the user accounts write access to the folder manually.

Not just program files, but also any drive other than C:

For example, if you have other HDDs or partitions with letters such as D:, E: Z: R: whatever.., you may need to give yourself write access to anything installed on those drives.

Modern games and apps write their data to dedicated folders under your user folders or in folders found in 'my documents' folder, both of which do not require anything special on the user's part for them to save their data. This is why most newer stuff doesn't require you to run them as administrator like older apps do.