EVH5150 Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 Hi guys, I'm playing FM 2008 and have just had the "save game cannot be loaded" error on my regular file. However, I have the three-file rolling save enabled in my preferences, but there's only one file in there ("filename (backup)"), and it's about five games behind where I last saved. Any ideas on what has happened, and is there anything I can do to get the data back? Thanks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kccircle Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Load the game up and keep saving until you get similar results?? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rinso Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 have you recenlty changed the prefs to "3 file auto-save" ?? seems odd that theres only one file there... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVH5150 Posted September 23, 2009 Author Share Posted September 23, 2009 I have changed it recently, but I made the change several weeks before my last save. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rinso Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 "in-game" weeks you mean? and... how often do you save it?? im just thinking that maybe it hasnt had time to realise its supposed to be on a 3-file save, and has only saved over the first file. the second file would be created on the second save, the third on your third (unless i have that wrong!) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVH5150 Posted September 23, 2009 Author Share Posted September 23, 2009 No, I mean real weeks! This was after a disc format. It's also set to auto-save every month, so it's like it didn't auto-save properly. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rinso Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 how many times has it saved since you changed it?? i have mine set to auto-save every week, that way if something does go wrong, i lose one or two matches at worst... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrazT Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 I suspect that you have made the change to the rolling 3 file autosave and forgotten to hit confirm maybe? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neji Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 The 'backup' part suggests to me that FM hasn't saved properly for one reason or another and created a backup because of that. Not sure why it would leave you with only that save if there should be three though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVH5150 Posted September 23, 2009 Author Share Posted September 23, 2009 FrazT: No, when I double-checked it it was definitely set to rolling three file save. Neji: I definitely think there's an error with the save process somehow. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayahr Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 The rolling auto-save needs you to play for a long time at once to have any effect. The first autosave will always go to your main save, the second will then be called *v2 and the third *v3. However, if you never play long enough in one playing session to have 3 autosaves in it then a v2 or v3 might never be created or only include a comparably old state of your game from when you played that long for the last time. At least this is how I think it works. May that be the cause for you? hth:) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jayahr Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 No, I mean real weeks! This was after a disc format.It's also set to auto-save every month, so it's like it didn't auto-save properly. Sorry, didn't read this before. So this means that a v3 is only created for you after playing 3 game months at once and it will only be replaced with a new v3 afer playing that long again. If I am right this would now indeed be my guess that this is why your rolling saves don't exist or just contain old states. I'd recommend changing to save every fortnight. It doesn't take that long and playing any game again is just annoying as hell to me, so I do that. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rinso Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 I agree with Jayahr on this one... its what i was trying to say earlier, but, being such a ridiculous time in the morning, i couldnt get the words out right!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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