Lost all of my saves after game crash.

[Bibig00n]

Due to electricity shortage my game crashed. It was turned off for 2 hours and And when i finally be able to launch the game, only to find out that all of my saves are gone at all of 3 of ingame profiles. Now i have to start all over again after 52 hours of play through. I'm really upset

[PocketYoda]

Maybe back up the saves periodically.

[Bibig00n]

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

Maybe back up the saves periodically.

How do i back them up?

[PocketYoda]

Originally posted by Bibig00n:

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

Maybe back up the saves periodically.

How do i back them up?

Go to the saves and copy them to a different folder somewhere else occasionally.

C:\Users\YourPCname\AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\STEAM\SaveGames\Data

[Bibig00n]

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

Originally posted by Bibig00n:

How do i back them up?

Go to the saves and copy them to a different folder somewhere else occasionally.

Ok, will have to do it from now on. I didn't expected this to happen. Hate to lose progression this way. And not being able to deliver new content to my YouTube channel for a while (

[PocketYoda]

Originally posted by Bibig00n:

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

Go to the saves and copy them to a different folder somewhere else occasionally.

Ok, will have to do it from now on. I didn't expected this to happen. Hate to lose progression this way. And not being able to deliver new content to my YouTube channel for a while (

Yeah its annoying it seems this game has save stability issues for some.

[Bibig00n]

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

Originally posted by Bibig00n:

Ok, will have to do it from now on. I didn't expected this to happen. Hate to lose progression this way. And not being able to deliver new content to my YouTube channel for a while (

Yeah its annoying it seems this game has save stability issues for some.

Game was running smoothly for 50 hours at epic settings with no major bugs, except for NCSs sometimes was standing inside each other. Or the voices of them was in different direction from their actual location. And some floating objects/NPCs

[big100]

Originally posted by Bibig00n:

Due to electricity shortage my game crashed. It was turned off for 2 hours and And when i finally be able to launch the game, only to find out that all of my saves are gone at all of 3 of ingame profiles. Now i have to start all over again after 52 hours of play through. I'm really upset

man that suckk maybe seach for a save that you can download? dont know if there is such a thing just so you could continue from the point that you last played.

[Bibig00n]

Originally posted by big100:

Originally posted by Bibig00n:

Due to electricity shortage my game crashed. It was turned off for 2 hours and And when i finally be able to launch the game, only to find out that all of my saves are gone at all of 3 of ingame profiles. Now i have to start all over again after 52 hours of play through. I'm really upset

man that suckk maybe seach for a save that you can download? dont know if there is such a thing just so you could continue from the point that you last played.

I think i can just start over. It will be a lot faster now as i know the map and quests and items locations and i will be able to pick up some pieces of equipment I've missed and didn't bother to go back and search for it.

[Kodiak412]

I was over 100 hours in and I lost all my saves right after the 1.02 update. My PC rebooted right after the update so now I do not know if the update caused the save loss or the reboot.

I have rebooted in game before without losing the saves.

[Bibig00n]

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

Originally posted by Bibig00n:

How do i back them up?

Go to the saves and copy them to a different folder somewhere else occasionally.

C:\Users\YourPCname\AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\STEAM\SaveGames\Data

I've just checked this folders. there are files dated from 21 of November up to today. Meaning my saves are there but for some reason game cant see them.

[PocketYoda]

Originally posted by Bibig00n:

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

Go to the saves and copy them to a different folder somewhere else occasionally.

C:\Users\YourPCname\AppData\Local\Stalker2\Saved\STEAM\SaveGames\Data

I've just checked this folders. there are files dated from 21 of November up to today. Meaning my saves are there but for some reason game cant see them.

Did you try verifying the stalker 2?

[Bibig00n]

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

Originally posted by Bibig00n:

I've just checked this folders. there are files dated from 21 of November up to today. Meaning my saves are there but for some reason game cant see them.

Did you try verifying the stalker 2?

Sure i did

[PocketYoda]

Originally posted by Bibig00n:

Originally posted by PocketYoda:

Did you try verifying the stalker 2?

Sure i did

I'm not sure then the power outage wrecked something.

I just had an idea does steam cloud work on this game. If so try disabling it.

[IHP]

https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1h5p9ig/recover_old_save_files_if_stalker_2_deleted_your/

[Czosssnek]

thats is my old post but you can do the same steps for steam version of the game, anyway, maybe someone will find it usefull
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Hey, I was having a lot of problems with gamepass version due to the fact that if the game will crash, or you will turn it off too quickly or smth, sometimes the game will not send the newest save files to xbox cloud, so if you came back the next day and you notice that all of your saves are gone, this is because game downloaded saves that were pushed to the cloud, which in this case they will be outdated and your normal ones will be removed.

To combat this, and keep my sanity in check, I've got a bat file to copy my saves automatically after every 15 mins
below is the insides of this bat file
All you need to do is
- 1 - change the source directory (source_dir="here is the path to your save files")
you can find your save files under
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\GSCGameWorld.S.T.A.L.K.E.R.2HeartofChernobyl_6fr1t1rwfarwt\SystemAppData\xgs
- 2 - now you need to tell the bat file where you want the backup to be located (destination_dir="paste the path to backup folder")
In this case you will be able to ATLEAST have the save files backed up

Now how to use those copied save files?
Instructions was copied from another post https://www.reddit.com/r/stalker/comments/1gyfdux/important_save_this_post_in_case_your_save_file/
Xbox game pass version:
- 1.If you have your old save - keep it close, if not - find it in the following path: C:\XboxGames\GameSave\xgs\0009000005F7A48A_0000000000000000000000007782504A\SaveGames\Data (the higher the size of the file - the newer it is, I assume so far)
- 2. Open the game and DON'T CLOSE IT UNTIL YOU FINISH THE STEPS
- 3. Create new save by starting a new game or load any save you've got there as you wish if you are not afraid to lose it
- 4. Save manually as soon as you can
- 5. WHILE THE GAME IS OPEN in the background go to your folder opened by the path that was mentioned before and find the save that you just created
- 6. copy this file's name
- 7. get your old save and rename and (paste it inside saves folder) ctrl+v (old save now has new save's name)
- 8. paste it in the folder mentioned above and replace the old file
- 9. return to the game and load save

How to create a bat file?
Run notepad
paste the text below and click "file">"save as">change the type to "all files">name it "Stalker save backuper.bat"
the name of the bat is not supposed to have TXT, it must end with ".bat"

@echo off

echo Click enter to run backup after every 15 mins
pause >null

:loop
:: Define the source directory (change this to your desired source folder)
set "source_dir=C:\Users\ALanRj45\AppData\Local\Packages\GSCGameWorld.S.T.A.L.K.E.R.2HeartofChernobyl_6fr1t1rwfarwt\SystemAppData\xgs\00090000044B432D_0000000000000000000000007782504A\SaveGames"
if not exist "%source_dir%" echo E R R O R  cant find folder with saves & timeout /t 100

:: Define the destination directory (change this to your desired destination folder)
set "destination_dir=C:\Users\ALanRj45\Desktop\stalker bckup\Save Backuper"

:: Define the name for the new folder (can be a timestamp or custom name)
set "new_folder_name=SaveGames_%DATE:/=-%_%TIME::=-%"

:: Create the new folder
set "new_folder=%destination_dir%\%new_folder_name%"
mkdir "%new_folder%"

:: Copy the files from the source directory to the new folder
xcopy "%source_dir%\*" "%new_folder%\" /E /I /H >null

:: Display a success message
echo -------------------------
echo Files have been copied to %new_folder%.
echo AUTOSAVE done, next one in 15 mins
echo -------------------------

::Pause before the next save 900 seconds
timeout /t 900 /nobreak

::Go back to beginning of loop
goto loop