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AnDottie Jun 19, 2015 @ 6:56pm
Importing Witcher 1 saves to Witcher 2
As far as I know you can import your saves from the first Witcher game to the second one if they are in their original location (My Documents/The Witcher/saves). The problem is, I have them in that location, but The Witcher 2 still doesn't find them. Is there some kind of an alternative?
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CrackeR Jun 20, 2015 @ 4:09am 
Cant you just direct it to the actual save file? Its been awhile so i dont remember.
Seems like you could manually direct it to the file though.
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AnDottie Jun 20, 2015 @ 4:24am 
No, it needs to locate it automatically
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drussthelegend Jun 20, 2015 @ 4:28am 
You have to move the Witcher 1 save to the Witcher 2 save directory and then it will find it. Fooled me at first until I found the Witcher 2 save directory and copied the file, then it was all OK.
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AnDottie Jun 20, 2015 @ 4:38am 
Oh my god, I just realised i have created a "saves" folder within a "saves" folder. Fixed it and now it works! Sorry for bothering you guys but thanks for the help anyway :)
Last edited by AnDottie; Mar 25, 2016 @ 3:43pm
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Migz - DH Jun 20, 2015 @ 4:53am 
Originally posted by drussthelegend:
You have to move the Witcher 1 save to the Witcher 2 save directory and then it will find it. Fooled me at first until I found the Witcher 2 save directory and copied the file, then it was all OK.

That is an effective method, but one shouldn't have to do that. As AnDottie mentioned, having the Witcher 1 save files in their default place should be enough for TW2 to find them.
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drussthelegend Jun 20, 2015 @ 5:15am 
Originally posted by Migz - DH:

That is an effective method, but one shouldn't have to do that. As AnDottie mentioned, having the Witcher 1 save files in their default place should be enough for TW2 to find them.

I agree you should not have to, but you do. It is just yet one more thing on very long list of things that the W2 programmers did not do but should have done for the W1 customers.
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Migz - DH Jun 20, 2015 @ 5:32am 
Originally posted by drussthelegend:
Originally posted by Migz - DH:

That is an effective method, but one shouldn't have to do that. As AnDottie mentioned, having the Witcher 1 save files in their default place should be enough for TW2 to find them.

I agree you should not have to, but you do.

No, sorry, I didn't clarify enough.

My point was that using the default Witcher 1 save location works for AnDottie and me (and presumably most people since there aren't a lot of threads saying the import didn't work), so players shouldn't have to put a Witcher 1 save file in the Witcher 2 save location (although that is an effective method). If they do have to in order for the old save to be recognized, something unusual is going on with that person's system.

Edit: Again, there aren't a lot of threads complaining about imports not being shown, but there's some confusion about GoG versions vs. Steam versions, and I have no idea about the folder structure on Macs, so I can't provide advice there. But, going from a Steam installation of TW1 to a Steam installation of TW2 on a Windows box seems to work pretty well.
Last edited by Migz - DH; Jun 20, 2015 @ 5:37am
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drussthelegend Jun 20, 2015 @ 6:01am 
Since I have W1 and W2 through Steam on a Mac, it is entirely possible that the programmers just did not bother with the extra effort to get W2 to search the W1 save directory. It may work differently with the PC version and maybe the Steam / GOG source makes a difference to.
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Furian21 Mar 23, 2016 @ 4:06pm 
Originally posted by drussthelegend:
You have to move the Witcher 1 save to the Witcher 2 save directory and then it will find it. Fooled me at first until I found the Witcher 2 save directory and copied the file, then it was all OK.


how exactly do i do this?
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Furian21 Mar 23, 2016 @ 4:07pm 
because i have a Mac as well, but idk how i am supposed to move the save directory.
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AnDottie Mar 25, 2016 @ 3:48pm 
Originally posted by Furian21:
because i have a Mac as well, but idk how i am supposed to move the save directory.
You just copy and paste the save files in the saves folder for TW2, but as far as I remember now, there was no need to do it if you have them in their original TW1 folder because the game might find them automatically.
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Ardaen Feb 27, 2023 @ 10:46am 
I'm here years later, finding the same issue, and no solution anywhere.
I'm playing on Mac, which seems to be the one with the problem. I have tried everything, leaving only the latest file saved at the Order of the Flaming Rose with Dandelion, both in its original folder of The Witcher/saves, and copying it into Witcher 2/gamesaves, but it doesn't recognize the save on the former, and the game crashes after the intro in the latter. I've tried moving the whole saves files, and putting it at different locations. I've tried with different save files, from the Ice Plains, and creating new ones. I played in English, so the language should not be an issue. I've turned cloud storage on and off and it doesn't make a difference.

It just seems like The Witcher 2 will crash after intro whenever there is a savefile from Witcher 1 inside the Witcher 2 gamesave folder, but if you remove it then you can't import Witcher 1 files, as it doesn't read them in their original location... which I spent a lot of time playing precisely to be able to continue with 2 and 3. I'm very disheartened. There doesn't seem to be a solution online.
Please someone help!
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