Live for windows removal patch also "removed" my saved campaign

[n00bstar]

As the title says, after updating to the new patch my saved campaign is not there anymore. Is there any way of recovering it?

Ideas anyone?

[Norph]

Yep. Me too. Ideas anybody???

[Redhawk]

Me too...
I got no clue to how to fix :(

[rhinoxMICZ]

If this is the GFWL removal patch then I'm afraid that you are out of luck. The save game location has been changed to a steam internal one and who knows if the save game format it self hasn't been altered either. If not then I would try to begin a new campaing, find the new save files and swap them for the old ones.

[Skywire]

I didn't download the patch, where my save can be?

[cb6dba]

On my computer the save game is still being saved in the same directory, it just refuses to recognise the old saves...

I was planning to finish the original campaign this evening and move on to Choas Rising. I am not sure if this is good or bad luck, it's bad as I have lost my original campaign. It's good as that is all I have lost.... I would have been more annoyed if I had been abut to finish Chaos Rising...

[Demerzel]

Blame GfWL LoL

[76561198138960482]

Originally posted by cb6dba:

On my computer the save game is still being saved in the same directory, it just refuses to recognise the old saves...

I was planning to finish the original campaign this evening and move on to Choas Rising. I am not sure if this is good or bad luck, it's bad as I have lost my original campaign. It's good as that is all I have lost.... I would have been more annoyed if I had been abut to finish Chaos Rising...

Unfortunately the GFWL save files will no longer load in Steam. cb6dba - sorry to hear about the timing :(

Originally posted by rhin0x:

If this is the GFWL removal patch then I'm afraid that you are out of luck. The save game location has been changed to a steam internal one and who knows if the save game format it self hasn't been altered either. If not then I would try to begin a new campaing, find the new save files and swap them for the old ones.

I am not sure if this would work - we don't have any old GFWL save files that we could test something like that with. If that does work - keep us posted!

[Fracture des cheveux]

Same problem here. I actually have two files with my name in My Games/Dawn of war 2/Saved games, one [myname] (3 ko) and one [my name_(1)] (75 ko). That's pretty weird.
I tried to create another campaign profile and it is saved among my original games.
I've tried everything, disabling steamcloud, swaping files etc. nothing happens.
I was near the end of the game and I enjoy it a lot. I'm pretty mad right now.
I've looked inside the files, they're not "written" the same way pre and post patch.
Seriously, should I wait and hope for a fix, or start all over?

[Shinigami]

@Cynthia_RE
Why can't you fix it? I checked with Process Monitor and game still reads that old save files, it's just that it can't recognise them as proper save files

[Dallon Avery]

Oh Emperor, give me patience! I have just completed the original campaign of Dawn of War 2 and started Chaos Rising.
I was dreaming about having GfWL turned off, but my saves...

[76561198138960482]

Originally posted by Commandant Jacques:

Same problem here. I actually have two files with my name in My Games/Dawn of war 2/Saved games, one [myname] (3 ko) and one [my name_(1)] (75 ko). That's pretty weird.
I tried to create another campaign profile and it is saved among my original games.
I've tried everything, disabling steamcloud, swaping files etc. nothing happens.
I was near the end of the game and I enjoy it a lot. I'm pretty mad right now.
I've looked inside the files, they're not "written" the same way pre and post patch.
Seriously, should I wait and hope for a fix, or start all over?

My understanding from the developer team is that this is not something that can be resolved. It was not done lightly and I can understand your frustration - there are some definite restrictions that are faced when working to update an older game/move it over in full to Steamworks. We wanted to save it from the Gamespy server so players could continue enjoying DoWII.

[Mr.MojoRisin]

It would have been nice to have received a warning about this. Pretty poor information regarding the transfer to Steam from Windows Live.

[strigvir]

There was a sticky post in forums about transition for like 1 or 2 months, so I doubt it was THAT "pretty poor information regarding the transfer to Steam from Windows Live". Also, you can thank Microsoft for this "transition" to begin with.

[Eduardo]

Do I have to turn off beta to apply the new patch? Will the saves from beta still work? I am almost at the end in coop, so I don't want to lose my progress.

[spacedyemeerkat]

Originally posted by Cynthia_RE:

[...]and I can understand your frustration[...]

No. I don't think you can. Do you have any idea how many hours' gaming has been lost without recourse?