[TWD] PC Save system is just broken
Lost all my progress twice, once halfway through ep3 and then again halfway through ep2. No response from support after emailing , tweeting AND posting on this forum.
Either fix the issue or refund us telltale. At least have the decency to respond.
Either fix the issue or refund us telltale. At least have the decency to respond.
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Also, do you play on computers will multiple users logging into different accounts? Does exiting the game resolve the issue (at least temporarilly)?
I never saw one in the steamapps folder, and I had one in the telltale documents folder.
Where should the prefs.prop file be on a Win7 install?
Where would the "wrong" one be created?
Am I just fucked? Can you not patch your save system to just read all of our older pre-e4 saves? I don't see why this is so difficult.
After getting the profs.prop, make a new save file for episode 3. Rewind, save.
Copy over your old save file. Continue it. Should be at the end of episode 3.
Start Episode 4.
BTW: The workaround involved me renaming the save I wanted to continue from to "save 6", which was the newest one created by the game. IT's still not fully working; my other saves aren't present, just the one I workarounded here.
On the coming attractions thing, it showed the wrong choices. I'm still not sure if the right choices carried over, but at least I'm in episode 4 now. So far, the few references in game to before episode 4 have been correct.
All I have to say is you guys seriously need to update your QA methods before you publish. This is fucking janky as hell and stinks of a rushed "check it once, oh it works, ship it" kind of release with a tainted test environment. Or straight up ignorance and never checked it :P
Location 1: My Documents\Telltale Games\The Walking Dead
Location 2: STEAMFOLDER\steamapps\common\the walking dead\Pack\default
http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=37049
This solved my problem.
(Pc Windows 7 with steam)
It was last night when i played (3rd slot) episode 2 through
and almost the 3 one(after the point with duck).I waited till
it was saved and closed the game.Now i wanted to play a lil more
and it tells me im at episode 2 where i stoped a few days ago :mad:
I already looked at my steam folder and documents and i got prefs
once in both files.
I already had the problem that i saved carley and when i started the next episode i had doug,but i was looking on here and could solve the prob.
So what is with this prob?what can i do?
Im getting pretty pis.... off about.I really like the game and thats
why i wanna play it always a lil different but always are there some probs.
I only have a single pref.prop file in the correct place.. but should I even have to check for this? I did pay money after all and up front for all 5 episodes pre-launch to boot.
Putting the game down again, I have no interest in wasting my time replaying the game or screwing around with files. I guess I'll check in again in a week or two and see where this issue is at; unfortunately this is becoming a recurring event.
None of this applies to anything in my folders or drives. No duplicates anywhere.
I am on the non steam version, Nothing will save, no choices will carry through. Only one save game will even show up and it is mid way through episode 1. Had to play episode 2 all way through without stopping as not a single save using slot 2 recorded.
Episode 3 looks to be the same happening. Only way to play the game is each episode independant of the other, I never know who is still alive or what choices were made since random generation is the only way it will function.
None of the player found workarounds seem to apply to my situation.
I WILL NOT be paying for anything past what I already have access to unless the issue is fixed. Great game and story if you can fix it. I paid for a unique game that will save my choices but it wont even save anything much less my choices. What did I pay for?
It can't be that hard, make the game read-write it's saves to only one directory and only one file and stop this criss-crossing mess of files that have to work together.
If this isn't fixed I'm not buying another Telltale game, it's a shame, because TWD is such a good experience, but it's broken, to the point where I regret paying money for it.
ps its not the 1st time im having problems whit your games (back to the future).
Im playing the steam version for the pc.
Forgot to say that i had to rewind many many time because my choice where not following like the doug/carley .
SIMPLY- create the ability to choose at the beginning of an episode the choices you made in the previous.this will auto create a new file to start with and although will not fix this ANNOYING IRRITATING PROBLEM, IT WILL however make it less frustrating. Please and thank you.
This.
I don't normally do this, but I had to complain. Just finished Ep3, started Ep4 and it crashed, then when I went back in to the game my save game has vanished. What kind of save game system is this?!
I just spent the last hour trying various "fixes" from all the support on here (thanks community, no thanks TTG), but nothing has worked for me.
I would think at least the option to select your previous choices would be good, so that a save game loss isn't as big a deal.
This is really poor, just when I was enjoying the game so much. I will keep checking here for a solution every day or two but from what I've been reading, a solution doesn't look likely any time soon.
Shame, TTG, shame.
I have had all of the typical problems and they all result from the game stupidly creating or updating the prefs.prop file in either the My Documents structure or the actual Install directory structure. When you 'lose' save games, the game has accessed the prefs.prop file from the WRONG last saved position; and since, the prefs file is critically linked to the saves, it 'loses' them.
I have tried the recommendations to delete the prefs.prop file from the Install directories, but the stupid programming still will create a prefs.prop file in that location. The game currently reads the Install location file but writes to the My Documents location.
The solution I have found is to back up all the save files and both prefs.prop files from the directory locations EVERY time AFTER I play the game. Then use the latest prefs.prop timestamped file to copy it to the alternate location. This is working for me now.
I also just got Windows 8 (Win8) to experiment with. Upon start, the game would black screen and lock up the entire O/S. A power off or hard reset was required to restart the PC. I have now solved this problem by downloading an older dinput8.dll file and placing it in the Install structure Gamedata directory. Other information about this file can be found in the forum.
Telltale needs to get some competent programmers or risk losing all of their PC customers. I certainly will not buy any more Telltale games.
Why is it that every other game I have played has the simple capability of backing up your save games and simply copying them to the save folder to restore them. This guards against issues like corrupt save files any errors which require you to re install the game. Due to some maddeningly illogical decision not to have a save game stand by itself, this is apparently not possible here. Why have this prefs.prop file in the first place? It's 7kb on my machine, if every save game had to be 7kb bigger in order to eliminate this problem would that really be such an issue? So many more problems seem to happen as a direct result of this horrid design. I have tried many solutions and I see blank 'start new game' save slots each time and I've had enough.
Please, fix this. This is clearly not an isolated issue and frankly if you can't reproduce the problem, you aren't doing your job.
So I figured, well, this is a different kind of game than I'm used to, perhaps I just need to go farther into the game for an auto-save. An hour later, same behavior same loss of entire progress.
How is it possible that I just spent $25 on something that is as broken as this? Am I to understand that the only way to play this game is to do so entirely in one sitting? I guess the issue has only been happening for 5 months (said quite sarcastically). Get on the ball telltale, this is unacceptable. Fix it, or refund it.
I find it difficult to believe that this cannot be recreated. It seems that proper operation on the PC version is the situation that is difficult to recreate.
This is completely unnaceptable. This game is 100% about the choices and relationships , yet the technical issues render that portion of the game pointless. What then , is the point of playing ?
C'mon Telltale, get your shit together
Running on steam on windows 7.
Just completed Episode 2, when I try to continue with Episode 3, I get a popup window saying that the exe file unexpectedly crashed. When I try to reopen the game, the save file reverts back to the car encounter at the end of episode 2. I did this 3 times, without being able to load into Episode 3.
Please fix this already!
Problem was solved with this:
http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showpost.php?p=707755&postcount=13
thanks for posting DarkSoroush.
I didn't take the newest file though, because opening the game made one file with newer date although it had the old savegame state in them. Best thing is to make a backup of the file if you aren't sure which one is the one with your saves.
Same problem appeared afterwards with the autosave after episode 3 and now for being able to play episode 4 I again had to copy the file. But it worked and my decisions were carried over at least.