When you uninstall, more is left behind than just your save games. I recently did an unins/reinstall, and had no problems (didn't patch it, either). However, I didn't keep any saves, just the character files. Those I copied out to another directory.
Then I uninstalled the game. The wiz8 directory was still there, with some stuff in it. I deleted the entire thing. After that came the reinstall, after which I copied the character files back in.
You may want to try something like that.
Nightowl2
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