Lost my saves!!!!!
Did this happen to anyone else?
I have completed episodes 1 & 2 and I just turned the game on to see if I can start episode 3 and I have no saves from the first 2 games!!
I literally have to replay all of the games now. I don't understand why this happened?:mad::mad::mad::mad:
I have completed episodes 1 & 2 and I just turned the game on to see if I can start episode 3 and I have no saves from the first 2 games!!
I literally have to replay all of the games now. I don't understand why this happened?:mad::mad::mad::mad:
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To be honest I'd wait for a response for these bugs to be fixed before wasting another 4-6 hours of your life.
It happened the same to me, I lost all my saves and settings and sometimes I can't run the game.
I have checked the saves folder and I still have them...
TELLTALE GO TO HELL
http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32410
This is for Mac only, but replace Application Support with Program Files/Telltale Games or wherever you installed the game.
Otherwise... try this one:
http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=32357
I'm still confused.
Now if installing Episode 3 really messes up the saves AGAIN, then i won't even install it.
Is it really this hard for TT to fix this?
I don't have much time to play games, so seeing my progress gone is annoying. I hoped that they would learn from previous mistakes, and I could enjoy new episode with no problem.
It still says "coming soon" for ep3 on steam, even though there are achievements for ep3 already.
do not play episode 3 yet!!!!!!! As the game is broken!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If u value all the time u spent on your save games then dooo not play!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As the fatal error message (your save data is corrupt) is back and it will wipe your save games completely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Everything will be gone
It has now auto saved over 2 of my files.:(
I'm left with 1 save game near the end of Ep 1.
Xbox 360.
How do you know those new saves you make will carry over?
Okay, that last exaggeration may have been untrue. At least I got $5 of gameplay out of it with Episode 1...
hey right ive spent all day with the same problem but i think ive fixed it try this.
when it says choose random choices press B to go back. when it pops up the screen that shows your woefully empty saves press the guide button and sign out. you are then given a message saying you must be signed in with the profile that purchased the game to play. sign back in. et voilia my saves where back after i chose device option before the start screen
it worked for me it might work for you.
xbox only
There are a few 'fixes' which people have come up with, most which do not work or are one-off cases where something has decided to swap and recognise the save.
Basically from what I can tell it is linked in to how the game recognises save files (PC version), using 2 different locations to store information (No idea why) and 2 separate "Prefs.prop" files which seem to hold any user profile information (assuming also the most up-to-date save.) Sometimes a pref file decides to dump all your user data, and this messes with the save recognition. (again, an assumption.)
It looks like the problem can originate from close to anything, just when the game decides it wants to fuck up. Personally mine came from when my choices were reversed during the openings of Ep 2 so I replayed Ep 1 with a rewind on the last chapter.
From what I can see on the attentiveness of the TTG staff towards their support forum, you aren't going to get a reply nor a fix for a while.
Edit: Don't bother trying to replay episode 1 either, it seems this problem is just as likely to crop up again for no reason.
Replayed part of Episode 1 and Episode 2 and made a backup of the save on a memory card.
EVERYTIME I try and start Episode 3 it takes me right back to the beginning of Episode 1. Not even getting the question about random choices anymore.
EVERYTIME it does this it auto saves over my game files.
Pathetic that Telltale have been aware of these kind of issues since Episode 2 and seemingly not bothered to do anything about it.
It woundnt start, so I found a fix for it, with that Windows 98/ me compatibility
It starts allright, BUT all save games arent there, I can see they are in my Documents/teltale games/the walking dead folder, but the game have createt a new teltale games folder, I tryed to copy paste the save files to the new folder, but no luck.
I cant disable compatibility, cus then the game wont start.
Please somebody have any Ideas...
Which files did you copy over, exactly? Only the files with extension .save?
I've finished both episode 1 and 2. When starting the game today to FINALLY play episode 3, the game only showed a savegame stating 'episode 1'. It looked like the game didn't save anything from episode 2.
In the folder containing the savegames (C:\Users\YOURNAME\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead), there were .save files that corresponded with episode 2 (save_11 - save_28). Apparently the game DID save the game (hence the files being there), but it isn't finding it for some reason.
The fix
The game reads the prefs.prop stored in X:\Steam\steamapps\common\the walking dead\Pack\default . Copy your prefs.prop file from the my documents folder (C:\Users\YOURNAME\Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead) to the steamapps folder.
This is probably caused by a register error telling the game to read/write the prefs.prop file stored in the steamapps folder.
Note that this means you'll have to do this every time you restart your game!
tl;dr : Take a look in this folder for a prefs.prop : X:\Steam\steamapps\common\the walking dead\Pack\default
PS. I made this thread in the discussion forum too to help as much people as possible. A fair trade for Telltale not helping AT ALL.
In compatiblity mode i can play only from the beginning too or use an automatically createt storyline to start episode3 because the master save file will not be accept any old savegames and the game itself will not support the old master save file and overwrites the old one each time with a new one if i tried to replace it manually. So i think we have to wait for an fix or play the game from the beginning
have a nice day
C7
(mine was "user\documents\telltale games\walking dead" in win7 64bit)
Then move the saves to another directory (files with .save)
Launch 'the game' and start a 'new game' and wait untill you see in the top corner the 'save icon'.
-Close the game, look in the same directory and see if there is a .save, in my case there was a save_6.save.
- Delete it
- Copy your last savegame from the savegames you moved before.
- Move it to the directory and rename in the name the savegame you deleted was (so i copied my save_29.save to the dir and renamed it save_6.save)
- Start the game up, select the save game (timestamp doesn't matter).
- Go to episode three whatever it says (and your choices should work)
I had the old saves.
So I deletet all the saves, startet the game from episode 2, then let it generate a save, then I close the game, and copy the last BIG save 100kb or so from the old save and rename it to the new save, so lets say the new save is called Save_6.save and the old is called save_37.save i take and copy over save_37.save and delete Save_6.save and then rename save_37.save to Save_6.save.
Just remember to take the save with ~ 100kb, It took me some tryes, cus sometimes it dosent work, but I got both my save games back, you just have to play the "end" part of episode 2, but It have all the things you done in episode 1, and after you are ready to play episode 3
Hope you guys can figure it out
Btw the save games are found in
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Telltale Games, atleast thats where they are on my computer win7
When I start a new game, all my saves are there. But fascinatingly enough, after I start a game, I can go back to the "main menu", and my saves are gone. (It refers to OLD saves IE "Episode 1" - it doesn't acknowledge my later saves when I'm already in game).
I'm not asking how to fix it.
I'm merely suggesting that the Telltale / Steam community (Employees / Developers) look into this and fix it.
Specs:
Windows 7 64 bit
Steam
Now I'm starting a brand new game. And started episode 3. The game starts out towards the end of the episode. (wtf). On a new, fresh game.
Grrrr