Edit save files?

[Darkrachet]

I got a new hardrive and didn't uppload my saved data anywhere, so since this game doesn't have cloud saving is there a way to edit the game files to change my skills/level to what they were before?

[room217au]

That's a treacherous road, editing save games. Devs had said they cannot provide support for modified saved games because the y can't tell what you've modified.
But..
You can get mods that "fast level" and "fast XP" a new profile and you can start from there.

[Stoneslinger76]

Originally posted by Darkrachet:

I got a new hardrive and didn't uppload my saved data anywhere, so since this game doesn't have cloud saving is there a way to edit the game files to change my skills/level to what they were before?

I hope you can still use the old hard drive or this will be

in steam click in the top left corner "Steam" then "back up & Restore"
a menu will pop up, highlight "backup currently installed programs"
click next
pick (select) your steam programs you want to back up.
it will then ask where you want to back them up.
back up to another drive, usb stick, dvd, etc or maybee the new Hard drive.
Also copy
//mydoc's/americian truck sim the whole dir to similar directory where you backuped up the steam programs. Your save games, controller configs are in the mydocs/american truck sim.
eg:
D:\backup\steam
D:\backup\mydocs

after backed up, then goto the new hard drive where you have your new steam, click steam, backup & restore, click restore, tell it where the backup is and restore the old files.

[string28]

I thought Steam had cloud synchronization? Maybe not for game mods?

[Stoneslinger76]

Originally posted by string28:

I thought Steam had cloud synchronization? Maybe not for game mods?

Yes I think so also but not sure if/how it works with ATS, maybee someone else can confirm or instruct how to use the cloud for ATS.

[room217au]

Some people refer to their "hard drive" as the whole box, not just the hdd.
Is that the case here?

Originally posted by Stoneslinger76:

I hope you can still use the old hard drive or this will be

You mean start up the old computer? Then why wouldn't the OP simply copy the relevant folder to a USB and transfer that way?

[room217au]

Thre is no cloud save for ETS2 or ATS. Not at Steam anyway.

[Stoneslinger76]

Originally posted by room217au:

Some people refer to their "hard drive" as the whole box, not just the hdd.
Is that the case here?

Originally posted by Stoneslinger76:

I hope you can still use the old hard drive or this will be

You mean start up the old computer? Then why wouldn't the OP simply copy the relevant folder to a USB and transfer that way?

Without knowing what his system is... "new hard drive", most systems can run more than one hardrive, plug the old one into another port, boot from the new... or maybee the new isnt boot drive.
Heck even my old 386's can run 4 hd and 2 floppy

[room217au]

Originally posted by Stoneslinger76:

Originally posted by room217au:

Some people refer to their "hard drive" as the whole box, not just the hdd.
Is that the case here?



You mean start up the old computer? Then why wouldn't the OP simply copy the relevant folder to a USB and transfer that way?

Without knowing what his system is... "new hard drive", most systems can run more than one hardrive, plug the old one into another port, boot from the new... or maybee the new isnt boot drive.
Heck even my old 386's can run 4 hd and 2 floppy

yes, it's a lottery as to what people mean, which is why I always ask :)

[Stoneslinger76]

Assume both drives were used as boot drives, and the system has multiple connections for hard drives

1 Put the old hd back in on a connection that is not in use by the new drive
2 set BIOS to boot from the old hard drive
3 check when booted up from old drive you see the new drive and make the steam back up directory on the new drive, if you cant see it make the steam backup on the old drive which your booted from.
4 when back is done, shut down.
5 set BIOS to boot from new drive
6 check if you can see the backup on new or old drive and start steam restore.


Some more info one your system or what hd's boot (C:) or slave (D:, E: ) would be usefull.

Room217au, yup its a lotery, guessing what they have for a system, I almost want to start up the ol 386 and play some Raptor or Earthsiege

[room217au]

ah the pre-Pentium class. Back when DooM only needed 4Mb ram and broke the 640Kb barrier.
Happy days.
I had a box with a pair of DX4-100 chips. A buddy of mine made it.