djlarryt
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Post by djlarryt on Nov 7, 2015 14:32:42 GMT -5
Hey community,
Just a heads-up: I upgraded to Windows 10 last week. Seems now anytime I play DR2/OTR my game saves get "corrupted" and won't load. I went to the My Saved Games folder and took ownership, just in case Win10 was trying to prevent write access to anything in there. But- that didn't work.
Not sure if I want to start over everytime I play. This seems to also happen after reboots- eg if I play for awhile, leave the game, do something else, come back and play, then previous saves load fine. But if I shut down and come back and play another day, games saves are ruined.
Has anybody else had this issue and found a workaround for it?
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Post by sppv on Nov 7, 2015 18:13:25 GMT -5
The first step would be to confirm actual corruption. So save a game and make a copy of it. Then shutdown and reboot if that save no longer works make a copy of it then hash check them both. If the hash check is identical then its not corrupting the saves and the issue is most likely a compatability issue between the game and Win 10. In which case I would try setting it to run in Win7 compatability mode (if Win10 has that option-never used 10)
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Post by djlarryt on Nov 12, 2015 23:27:50 GMT -5
Thanks for the suggestions, sppv. I did set it to Win7 compatibility but the problem persists.
I did a hash check on a backup of a save file and the save file that should have been the same in the savegame directory, and they are indeed different. It seems Win10 is doing something to the files whenever I reboot the machine (this includes the photo-save file too).
A workaround is to make a backup of my save files whenever I'm done playing, and put them in another folder. Then the next time I want to play again, I just write those files back into the save directory and they load fine. An extra step, sure- but at least I don't lose my progress every single time I play.
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Post by sppv on Nov 14, 2015 8:00:57 GMT -5
To avoid any issues Id plug in a usb and assign it a drive letter. Open the Dead Rising configuration file and change the save location to the USB then Win10 shouldnt be able to cock things up on ya
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Post by djlarryt on Nov 14, 2015 9:47:40 GMT -5
To avoid any issues Id plug in a usb and assign it a drive letter. Open the Dead Rising configuration file and change the save location to the USB then Win10 shouldnt be able to cock things up on ya That's a good idea- where is the DR config file and what's it called?
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Post by sppv on Nov 14, 2015 9:58:21 GMT -5
With GFWL it will be in the root of the Dead Rising folder and called Dead Rising 2.exe.cfg or you can make your own and name it user.ini or master.ini. For Steam it would be in either the root of the dead rising folder or in apps/roamingdata
In 7 with the GFWL version you can also change the save directory by manipulating the Libraries. Point the my documents library to the USB the Dead Rising should dsave there automatically. Would assume you can do this with 10 as well
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