Save Issues.

[chriscalvat]

Hi I am having trouble with save games that I have been having for a while since buying the game when it first came out.

basicly I will play the game and everything will be fine then after a few weeks or days my saves will stop working and insted crash back to desktop on trying to load the saves. any idear what could be causing it?

[USA Trucker]

Hello, and welcome to the forum.

We need system specs please. Just give the basics that you see in my sinature at the bottom.

[chriscalvat]

my system specs are

windows Vista home premium 32 bit
Intel core 2 Duo CPU @ 3.00GHz 2GB RAM
GeForce 7800 GT
DirectX 9

[USA Trucker]

Originally Posted by chriscalvat

my system specs are

windows Vista home premium 32 bit
Intel core 2 Duo CPU @ 3.00GHz 2GB RAM
GeForce 7800 GT
DirectX 9

I believe your GeForce 7800 is a little too low, and may be the issue of reloading a saved game. You need 8800 or above. Also when I had Vista, it presented some problems with saved games, and the game ran sluggish too. Windows7 seemed to correct this problem.

When you did play, in general how did your graphics respond to the game?

[chriscalvat]

the game would always work fine with no graphic errors what so ever would even save and load fine but then after a few weeks or days my saves would just stop working and crash back to desktop when ever I loaded them but if I started a new game and saved that save would work fine

[USA Trucker]

Originally Posted by chriscalvat

the game would always work fine with no graphic errors what so ever would even save and load fine but then after a few weeks or days my saves would just stop working and crash back to desktop when ever I loaded them but if I started a new game and saved that save would work fine

Well, like I said, Vista did present some save issues when I had it. There were a few others that reported the same problem too. So to make a long story short I just went and got Windows7, and haven’t had a problem since. Seems being that you say it works fine unless dormant for a couple of weeks leads me to conclude that it’s not so much a game problem as it is a Vista problem.

I may be wrong, and would welcome anyone else’s imput. Upgrading to Windows7 is a financial matter that only you can decide, or maybe upgrading your graphics card, and adding 2 more GB of ram, especially with todays games. The more ram you have the better things will run. This game is not fully optimized, and demands for the most part a high-end computer inspite of what the recommended specs state.

[chriscalvat]

perhaps I best wait then until later in the year and upgrade my system, at the moment though money is tight, thanks for your advice