Why is GFWL such UTTER garbage?

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You would think that simply backing up the savegame folder for Dirt 2 would be enough for me to restore the game after I formated PC ...

But noo, I of course forgot that it is a GFWL game and thus the saves will not work without backing up GFWL.

Why can't Microsoft create a worthwhile piece of software for once.
I'm not buying any game that has GFWL in it ever again!

 

[rypt]

Although i dont really like GFWL i didnt have the problems stated here...

I just installed a new SSD then moved over all my saved games, Dirt 2, Batman and Fallout 3...

All of those games work with no issues from saves.


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Edit

I should say that for Batman to work what i done was created a new game save, closed the game down went to the game save location coppied the game save folder name and renamed my old game save folder. Obviously deleting the new same folder in the proccess.

Then when you load batman all yir saves will be there.

I had Dirt2 on an offline profile, as I haven't got any GFWL games I play online anyway (GTA4 was also offline) .. which means that simply copying and signing into same profile would not work as it only works for online profiles.

Hooray for MS, hopefully Codemasters drop GFWL from GRID2 and F1 2010.

 

[rypt]

Can you enlighten me as to what exactly needs backing up then, in order to properly backup Dirt 2 saves?

Depends if you have it added to your online or offline profile, online profile you just need the saved game folder (Documents\My Games\Dirt2 on win7), offline profile you need that plus the Users\<Username>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\GFWL and XLive folders.