Saved Games

sorn21 · 8 Jun 2009 at 14:28

Afternoon,

I've recently reformatted the PC and in my haste I forgot to make a backup of my Game Saves. I was curious to see if anybody knows any reputable places I could get a hold of these from?

The two most important are HL2 and Far Cry2.

I know I could spend a few minutes on a warez site trying to find this, but I've just reformatted and wish to keep the PC clean for now!

Thanks

sorn21 · 8 Jun 2009 at 15:04

Nobody?

Dano · 8 Jun 2009 at 15:05

You could just run a file recovery program on your drive and see if they're still intact.

http://www.recuva.com/

Jamesdavid3 · 8 Jun 2009 at 15:22

If worst comes to worst, you can just download someone elses save game file which should put you roundabout the same place where you were anyway.

sorn21 · 8 Jun 2009 at 15:24

Jamesdavid3 said:
If worst comes to worst, you can just download someone elses save game file which should put you roundabout the same place where you were anyway.

That's what I'm looking for; any recommendations?

Jamesdavid3 · 8 Jun 2009 at 15:36

i'm sure theres some websites on google, but im sure if you contact people on here they will gladly just send you there saved games files for the game.

bledd · 8 Jun 2009 at 15:42

for HL2

open the console and type..

sv_unlockedchapters 15

(might have to do 'sv_cheats 1' first, can't remember)

that will let you start a new game from whichever chapter you want, then just collect the guns etc and save

sorn21 · 8 Jun 2009 at 15:46

bledd. said:
for HL2

open the console and type..

sv_unlockedchapters 15

(might have to do 'sv_cheats 1' first, can't remember)

that will let you start a new game from whichever chapter you want, then just collect the guns etc and save

That worked a charm! Thanks a lot bud

bledd · 8 Jun 2009 at 16:42

When microsoft released XP, they should have put a 'Saved Games' link in My Documents, all games would use it by now

BoozerDawg · 8 Jun 2009 at 17:00

bledd. said:
When microsoft released XP, they should have put a 'Saved Games' link in My Documents, all games would use it by now

They have with Vista, but no developers use it

C&C/Red Alert 3 use it, but it only has the save games, and not the campaign data etc, so if you format and only backed up those saves (like i did), you wont have your campaign unlocked. I wish devs would start to use this, having to hunt down save games that are hidden all over the place in hidden folders is a royal pain.

Stevev · 8 Jun 2009 at 17:19

It's easy to find saved games in Vista, Start -> Games -> Right Click The Game -> Saved Games.

No need to go looking for hidden files/folders etc..

BoozerDawg · 8 Jun 2009 at 17:45

Stevev said:
It's easy to find saved games in Vista, Start -> Games -> Right Click The Game -> Saved Games.

No need to go looking for hidden files/folders etc..

Doesnt work for every game, and some like CoD4 are a pain

bledd · 9 Jun 2009 at 10:52

BoozerDawg said:
They have with Vista, but no developers use it

that's why I said they should've done it in XP, that way almost all games would use it by now

nands · 9 Jun 2009 at 17:17

But it makes more sense to have the saves in the Game folder to me. Also doesn;t this get confused when you have a games disk rather than using the c drive?