andromedagalaxe 10 Posted February 21, 2010 I am learning why people have a love/hate relationship with this game. After hours of crawling around avoiding helicopters, I got to the NAPA safehouse and the game did an autosave, seemed to complete the autosave, then went into a cutscene and during the cutscene froze up. So I reset and now when I launch the mission it fails to load and drops back to the desktop. IS THERE ANY WAY TO ACCESS ANY OF MY EARLIER SAVES? I don't want to restart. This sucks . Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zdavid99 10 Posted February 21, 2010 (edited) i've had similar problems in Dogs of War where the game crashed while autosaving. I managed to get it working by mess around with the savefiles. Make a backup of your save files folder which is located at: My Documents\ArmA 2\Saved\ca\missions. the foler you need to backup is the folder named "campaign". Make a copy of it and put it somewhere safe. Then delete the original autosave file which is located in the "campaign" folder. then try to resume the campaign. I cant guarantee that it will work but i once managed to get a broken campaign working by doing this. Edited February 21, 2010 by zdavid99 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
andromedagalaxe 10 Posted February 22, 2010 Totally worked. Had to replay a small portion but no biggie. really appreciate the help on this. I have the steam version and my wi-fi went down at the same time as this glitch. Guess I should be playing in offline mode. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CptHarris.aus 10 Posted February 22, 2010 mate I can tell you now that having ur net connection on while playing any single player game is a recipe for disaster- apps running in the background- anti virus or java etc etc even windows updating,,, it's just a real bad scenario- I myself checked the net a couple days ago and thought yeah why not have a quick bash on arma--- bam! the game was all jumpy, freezing every 30seconds or so while something was obviously chewing up resources in the background.. also a friend was telling me that steam is a pain as compared to punkbuster, it's highly crackable/hackable? but anyway it's just full of bad things and don't forget that going steam- you're basically saying yeah do what you want to/with my system whenever you want, as opposed to choosing when to dl things... I had a steam install of Total War last year- man what a waste of system resources that turned out to be. last word- ditch anything that becomes an open sender controlled port on your machine- coughsteam!cough!- and go basic mate- control ur pc as much as you can yourself. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
andromedagalaxe 10 Posted February 22, 2010 that's a good idea. I'll probably get a disc copy when the price comes down a bit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
