Game won't save

[SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE]

I tried verifying the files, I tried changing that FSgame while thing. I dunno what's wrong.

[Krezzin]

Use administrator privileges to start the game (saves stored in Documents\stalker-shoc, explains the need)

[SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE]

Originally posted by Krezzin:

Use administrator privileges to start the game (saves stored in Documents\stalker-shoc, explains the need)

Unable to find a stalker-shoc folder anywhere. I tried verifying the game integrity but it says there isn't anything missing.

[Krezzin]

Bleh, no folder? Allow me to guess.... Windows 10 what you use? Old games tend to fail to launch. I can only confirm for Windows Xp/Vista and 7 from my own experience (currently able to to test only on XP/W7).

Stalker-shoc usually becomes visible once you start the game. Try another thing, locate your install dir

steamapps\common\STALKER Shadow of Chernobyl

Once there look for "_appdata_", see what are its contents.

[SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE]

Appdata just has "banned.ltx, traffic.net and user.ltx" I tried just doing a search for the shoc folder in my C drive but nothing at all and oddly the default place the game tries to save my games to doesn't exist as it tries to save to some place called "settings and documents" which is supposedly supposed to be one of the first folders I get when I open my C drive

[SPG]

appdata may be hidden if you don't have admin priv on your computer

save location

C://Users/public/Public Documents/stalker-shoc/saved games

[Krezzin]

Crazy ♥♥♥♥. I have SoC completed, all endings and saves, aren't listed in

C:\Users\Public\Documents\stalker-shoc

like @SPG says.
Mine always save to

C:\Users\XXXXX\Documents\stalker-shoc\savedgames

Are we going insane, C-Consciousness washed our minds! Haha! User account privileges for sure, I recommend to uninstall the game, remove leftover registry files using RegEdit (search for STALKER-SHOC folders), reinstall again.
Run Steam like administrator before reinstalling.

[SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE]

still can't get it to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ work. Just gonna go play call of pipryat instead

[Krezzin]

You did not tell us your operating system to think of a solution to the problem. STALKER works well across Windows XP -- Windows 7. Win10 doesn't like old games much, Microsoft decided to "move on".

[SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE]

it's windows 10 yeah, but it seems like it's a lot more trouble than it's worth. Call of pipryat works fine and is a bit more fleshed out than chernobyl so I don't mind a whole lot.

[Krezzin]

There you go, like Isaid, W10 breaks compatibility on old games.

[MeanJim]

It's not a problem specific to Windows 10. I that problem with Windows 7, but Windows 10 actually worked for me. The problem is the default config file tells the game to write to the specific path of "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\stalker-shoc\". Since Windows Vista, user files by default in "C:\Users", so that path doesn't physically exist on Windows Vista and up. By default, Windows has hidden directory junctions to redirect old programs writing there to the proper locations. You can have this problem for lots of reasons, the most common being if you moved the default location of the Public Documents.

It's easy to fix though. Edit the fsgame.ltx file in the game's main directory. Change the first line from:

$app_data_root$ = true| false| $fs_root$| C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\stalker-shoc\

to:

$app_data_root$ = true| false| $fs_root$| _appdata_\

The save files and user configs will be stored in a the _appdata_ that is already in the STALKER game directory. You can change it to any path you want. The Steam version added that _appdata_ directory with the default user configs, and it seems they didn't update the fsgame.ltx to tell the game to actually save there.

[spajry]

Originally posted by MeanJim:

It's not a problem specific to Windows 10. I that problem with Windows 7, but Windows 10 actually worked for me. The problem is the default config file tells the game to write to the specific path of "C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\stalker-shoc\". Since Windows Vista, user files by default in "C:\Users", so that path doesn't physically exist on Windows Vista and up. By default, Windows has hidden directory junctions to redirect old programs writing there to the proper locations. You can have this problem for lots of reasons, the most common being if you moved the default location of the Public Documents.

It's easy to fix though. Edit the fsgame.ltx file in the game's main directory. Change the first line from:

$app_data_root$ = true| false| $fs_root$| C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Documents\stalker-shoc\

to:

$app_data_root$ = true| false| $fs_root$| _appdata_\

The save files and user configs will be stored in a the _appdata_ that is already in the STALKER game directory. You can change it to any path you want. The Steam version added that _appdata_ directory with the default user configs, and it seems they didn't update the fsgame.ltx to tell the game to actually save there.

thank u man, u saved 10 hours of my playthrough

[INFR4R3D_]

I had a very rare scenario where the SOC Config file has in the first string of the first line the $app_data_root$. I spent two hours of my damn time doing research for a thing that devs could solve in five (I repeat: FIVE) minutes of their time to make it at default once i discovered it.

In short, if you find $app_data_root$ in there, replace it with $fs_root$ in Windows 10.

And this only when I tried to replicate it playing Call of Pripyat when there was a generic save file in the load game list.