Cannot load save files in Badlands mission - please help

[Saint Warrior 10]

Hello all,

I am having problems with autosave in Badlands mission of Harvest Red campaign in ArmA II: CO ver. 1.57.

The game is saving and autosaving OK during the mission but kicks me out of the game with crash error "Cannot load save file" if I quit the game after taking second camp and want to resume the campaign. So I had to revert the mission to it's beginning.

What should I do here? Try to pass the mission in one sitting without any saves or there is another remedy?

Please help me, I am playing original campaign for the first time (finished OA so far) and it's getting more and more interesting for me.

Any tips would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[Hanzu 10]

If still having same problems, I just want you to know what I just found out that some S.M.A.R.T. diagnostic software Acronis Drive Monitor will conflict Arma2 save routines.

I had that software running simultaneously with Arma2 and my autosave crashed to desktop always in same postion. After crashing 5 times in a row I suddenly became "S.M.A.R.T." myself and realized it is that software that I had installed a couple of days ago.

Not all little programs running in the background are ok to keep running while playing.

Surely 1.59 patch is a good decision when playing Badlands next time. You probably have updated by now.

Were you playing this on sp or mp? In mp if you quit, game will create third type of savegame which I call suspendsave/continuesave. The game has a bug where that type of save has higher priority than autosaves or manualsaves, so after quitting game once, the only save that can be loaded is latest suspendsave.

To use latest autosave or manualsave, continue save must be deleted manually in Windows after which latest autosave or manual save will load again.