karl b Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Woke up this morning, made a coffe, sat down, powered up the PC ....... WINDOWS WAS NOT SHUT DOWN PROPERLY ETC ETC ....... REALLY, well i shut it down properly, so someone else has been on here...hhmmm...nevermind.... launch football manager load last game THE SAVED GAME COULD NOT BE LOADED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh right, re-start, same again, uninstall, re-install - more problems, installing off the CD, once game is installed it wont run, pinned it too quick launch bar, problem solved, been up an hour now, kids due up soon......load game.... SAVED GAME CANNOT BE LOADED..... i know its gone, i know it is......but i gotta ask.... HELP, ANYONE? PLEASE.................. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Some Guy! Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Normally once its gone its gone. That's why I always keep some backups. Hopefully someone has something that might be able to help you though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrazT Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Any problems with shutting down, will usually lead to a corrupted save, I'm afraid. Once you save the game, the saving process will continue, even after you have exited the game, so it is best to wait for about 30 seconds after exiting before shutting down the computer. If you don't have a recent back up ( and you really should have ) then I suspect that your save will be lost. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
milnerpoint Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 yup what Franz says its true i shut down my laptop the second the game had finished saving by pressing the power button and it corrupted my game luckily i only lost a few weeks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnjo Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Wonder if the previous versions thing would help at all. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smurf Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Can't believe people don't do rolling saves. Auto Save Mode If however it is for you, you can choose whether the game automatically saves itself in a single file (therefore overwriting the same save) or if it saves itself into an incremented or rolling save file. http://www.sega.com/fm11/manual/39 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazaru5 Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 I create a new save every time I save the game, that way if I have a problem like the OP's or a crash-dump, I have the previous save to go back to. It's kind of like rolling saves but I do it manually. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smurf Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 I just do the rolling saves. Then I do a Save As before I accept another managerial role. Giving me the option to go back to that career if I wanted to. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Play Up Pompey! Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 I do rolling saves and I also copy them to a USB stick every week just in case something terrible happens to my laptop. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smurf Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Ah I just save the file to my dropbox. Then I can play that game on any computer that I have dropbox installed. Here's a link to an invite http://db.tt/OhYYiLK Plus I can go back into the archives of in Dropbox to retrieve older versions, so even a corruption of the file wouldn't be end of the world. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimHardy Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 This happened to me a couple of weeks back. I even posted a highly emotional story about the whole fiasco on the forums, so great minds and all that... ;-) sorry for your loss, I know exactly what you're going through. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herter Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 I just do the rolling saves. Then I do a Save As before I accept another managerial role. Giving me the option to go back to that career if I wanted to. I burnt my bridges ALOT by forgetting this.. Sometimes I've had a 10+ season great game with some team.. take on another job and lose interest and then I remember that I dont have a backup game before switching jobs.. *GONK* (sound of me headbutting the desk) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Herter Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 Ah I just save the file to my dropbox. Then I can play that game on any computer that I have dropbox installed. Here's a link to an invite http://db.tt/OhYYiLK Plus I can go back into the archives of in Dropbox to retrieve older versions, so even a corruption of the file wouldn't be end of the world. This is why I'd like FM so support Steam Cloud.. It would be awesome for those of us that play on multiple computers! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vane Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 It's happened to us all. You lose heart, take a break, then fire up the game and then off you go again. Before you know it your past save is old news...but your computer is now your arch enemy!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robioto Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 I've done it before on some very very long term saves (2035 on CM01/02 once my last backup was 3 years before). But you really should be using the rolling save. I have mine to auto save once a fortnight so in times the game has gone wrong 2 weeks max is the time I have to go back. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wiitastic Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 I create a new save every time I save the game, that way if I have a problem like the OP's or a crash-dump, I have the previous save to go back to. It's kind of like rolling saves but I do it manually. If you get a crash dump, the game automatically has a backup save for you, or atleast it did the last 4 times I got a crash dump with FM2011 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Krald Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 I personally save religiously, not with the aim to cheat, but purely because I have a compulsive addiction to saving my game, I did it in first person shooters and rpgs too, and when I stopped playing any of those kind of games, I would start trying to press f5 to quicksave while playing world of warcraft, just out of my pure addiction to it, even though it doesn't work (obviously). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazaru5 Posted September 6, 2011 Share Posted September 6, 2011 If you get a crash dump, the game automatically has a backup save for you, or atleast it did the last 4 times I got a crash dump with FM2011 What name do these saves have and where are they? I've not noticed an extra save in the My Documents>Sports Interactive>Football Manager 2011>games folder following either crash-dump on my Hereford save (although the recent one was caused by a Windows failure not an FM failure which maybe makes a difference?). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GR Choke Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 this happened to me but somehow FM made a backup copy for me and i tried loading that and it worked Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smurf Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 That's called the Rolling Saves. It creates backups of the game. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
postal postie Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 What name do these saves have and where are they? I've not noticed an extra save in the My Documents>Sports Interactive>Football Manager 2011>games folder following either crash-dump on my Hereford save (although the recent one was caused by a Windows failure not an FM failure which maybe makes a difference?). it will append the word '(backup)' to the name of your file, if my memory is correct. so if your file is called 'my team (backup)', it will save it as 'my team (backup) (backup)' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
postal postie Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 Any problems with shutting down, will usually lead to a corrupted save, I'm afraid. Once you save the game, the saving process will continue, even after you have exited the game, so it is best to wait for about 30 seconds after exiting before shutting down the computer. If you don't have a recent back up ( and you really should have ) then I suspect that your save will be lost. it continues saving after you've exited the game? thats crazy, surely? i have noticed that the game takes a long time to exit when i click to get out of the game but i didn't think it was still doing critical work. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigfacemonkeyman Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 Does it have anything to do with data collection? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GR Choke Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 That's called the Rolling Saves. It creates backups of the game. i don't know if you're replying to me but i don't have my saves set to rolling saves Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weed Toker Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 Same thing happened to me when i went n looked in the save folder (out of FM) it had made a backup which worked....... i take it you've already looked in there...? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazaru5 Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 Right. Well. It appears that I don't have these "(backup)" saves so I can only assume that it is something to do with my "autosave" settings... I thought it was set to every year but I may have actually turned it off because you can't not auto-save it on 24th June, I prefer to have more control over it. Either way, I don't have the (backup) save at all, just my last one. And that, unfortunately, means going back up to 14 matches this time around after a corrupt Windows file killed my game. I actually think I'd played 13 matches or the 13th was next, and no I'm not superstitious, just annoyed a tad.. In any case, it's lead to me starting a Barca save to test my experimental Barca tactic and, so far, it's looking pretty good Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigfacemonkeyman Posted September 7, 2011 Share Posted September 7, 2011 Right. Well. It appears that I don't have these "(backup)" saves so I can only assume that it is something to do with my "autosave" settings... I thought it was set to every year but I may have actually turned it off because you can't not auto-save it on 24th June, I prefer to have more control over it. Either way, I don't have the (backup) save at all, just my last one. And that, unfortunately, means going back up to 14 matches this time around after a corrupt Windows file killed my game. I actually think I'd played 13 matches or the 13th was next, and no I'm not superstitious, just annoyed a tad.. In any case, it's lead to me starting a Barca save to test my experimental Barca tactic and, so far, it's looking pretty good It pays to be a save monkey. Don't play Spanish roulette. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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