Weird reinstall destroyed savegame
Regenjas
Nederland Join Date: 2018-03-04 Member: 238579Members
Nederland Join Date: 2018-03-04 Member: 238579Members
Hello there, Friday(02-03-18) evening I was able to play normally, had good progress and I finally got the prawn suit ingame. Shortly after I saved the game as normal and closed it down.
The morning after I wanted to continue playing. I tried starting up the game but it said it wasn't installed yet. So I checked in my gamefolder first and it was clearly there. Being scared as hell to lose my hard work. I copied my gamefile and put it on my desktop. Not knowing what would be best, I let steam continue and download it(again). It checked for excisting game files and it looked like it found them all, because after that it didn't download anything.
I then was able to start up the game. I went to my save games and there was my savegame. With the good amount of time played, save thumbnail and what vehicles I have. But when I loaded the game I started in the water somewhere between the aurora and my lifepod with nothing. Like I just started playing. When I finally got back to the lifepod. everything was gone. My radio, fabricator and medpack generator were all gone, the medpack generator was even transparent and i was able to look outside like a small window.
Can someone please tell me what's wrong and that I didn't play 17 hours of gameplay for nothing and I can just change something and play again with my normal gamefile? please.
I started to test some thing and the only thing that i was able to find that was different when i loaded another game is that de lifepod spawns at a different location although i think that that's intended.
I also tried some other things like starting a fresh game and copy paste all the files from my desktop to the new save(read that that might help). Sadly it didn't. I was also talking to a friend about this and he says it's normal to start over every new patch but I just can't imagine that it works like that. + I don't even think it was an update. Because it downloadef nothing.
I also tried to fully de-install en re-install the game. Even on different hard-drives, that didn't help either. It all has the same result.
Does anybody know this problem, is there anything I can try and does someone know the solution on how to fix this problem.
Please
The morning after I wanted to continue playing. I tried starting up the game but it said it wasn't installed yet. So I checked in my gamefolder first and it was clearly there. Being scared as hell to lose my hard work. I copied my gamefile and put it on my desktop. Not knowing what would be best, I let steam continue and download it(again). It checked for excisting game files and it looked like it found them all, because after that it didn't download anything.
I then was able to start up the game. I went to my save games and there was my savegame. With the good amount of time played, save thumbnail and what vehicles I have. But when I loaded the game I started in the water somewhere between the aurora and my lifepod with nothing. Like I just started playing. When I finally got back to the lifepod. everything was gone. My radio, fabricator and medpack generator were all gone, the medpack generator was even transparent and i was able to look outside like a small window.
Can someone please tell me what's wrong and that I didn't play 17 hours of gameplay for nothing and I can just change something and play again with my normal gamefile? please.
I started to test some thing and the only thing that i was able to find that was different when i loaded another game is that de lifepod spawns at a different location although i think that that's intended.
I also tried some other things like starting a fresh game and copy paste all the files from my desktop to the new save(read that that might help). Sadly it didn't. I was also talking to a friend about this and he says it's normal to start over every new patch but I just can't imagine that it works like that. + I don't even think it was an update. Because it downloadef nothing.
I also tried to fully de-install en re-install the game. Even on different hard-drives, that didn't help either. It all has the same result.
Does anybody know this problem, is there anything I can try and does someone know the solution on how to fix this problem.
Please
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Thanks, I tried and it looked really promissing. Sadly it didn't work and i still have the same result. I even used the hard chkdsk /r c: command and it looked like it detected something but nothing chanced afterwards.
Other than that, you'd have to find the lost data. You could try various software to recover deleted files, but the problem is, the files weren't deleted; the data was lost or corrupted. Software that can do deep scans might be able to help though. It could be overwritten by now, though. (Software usually will inform you of this).
These are the 4 files you'll need to recover for each saved game (you don't need the last one, screenshot.jpg, but a file named "screenshot.jpt" must exist for the saved game to display in the list - you can make a blank file and name it screenshot.jpg or stick a random picture there and rename it).
http://www.piriform.com/recuva
https://www.minitool.com/data-recovery/corrupt-files.html
https://www.easeus.com/data-recovery/repair-corrupted-hard-disk-without-formatting.html (at the bottom)