My saved game isnt working HELP!

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My saved game isnt working HELP!

Postby l1lk1ll » Sat Oct 08, 2016 9:11 pm

So I just started playing this game yesterday and I love it.

I felt I was doing well and building up a nice little ranch.

Well today when I pressed continue it started from a new game....

So I went to load and I see my game but it says "Invalid Format" "The selected game file could not be read..."

Please tell me this can be fixed I really don't want to start all over again :(
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Re: My saved game isnt working HELP!

Postby EmeraldPlay » Sun Oct 09, 2016 4:43 am

Unless you have a backup of this save somewhere (like on a different computer), it's corrupted and it can't be fixed.
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Re: My saved game isnt working HELP!

Postby l1lk1ll » Sun Oct 09, 2016 8:54 am

Well I guess my enjoyment with this game was short lived then, I really felt like I was going to play this game a lot but not if I have to worry about losing all progress at any given moment.

Sad :(
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Re: My saved game isnt working HELP!

Postby EmeraldPlay » Sun Oct 09, 2016 10:05 am

The loss of progress happens quite rarely, so usually you don't need to worry about it.
It happens mostly when the game is interrupted when it's saving (e.g. when the computer's power goes out).
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Re: My saved game isnt working HELP!

Postby l1lk1ll » Sun Oct 09, 2016 11:27 am

they need to do something about this this is a pretty grindy game with lots of accomplishments and things to do it completely SUCKS to start over from 0 again....I was playing several hours a day now I can't even bring myself to turn it on again... :(
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Re: My saved game isnt working HELP!

Postby EmeraldPlay » Sun Oct 09, 2016 11:49 am

You should play the game again, there's no need to be scared by such a rare thing, it never happened to me and I already put something like 30 hours into playing the game. Although, yeah, devs should do something so this wouldn't happen anymore, such as making backups of save files.

EDIT: Oh, and about the corruptions, I'll explain it a bit more - you see, every time when you quit the game or you save your savefile, the game overwrites the previous copy of it. When the game is interrupted while it does that, the savefile hasn't been fully overwritten, and there's not enough info in it for the game to run it, and it becomes corrupted. Backups, even though with them you'd lose a bit of progress, they would be reliable since you won't lose it entirely.
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Re: My saved game isnt working HELP!

Postby l1lk1ll » Sun Oct 09, 2016 2:30 pm

Ok I'm going to try again.

If this ever happens again I will never touch this game again :(
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Re: My saved game isnt working HELP!

Postby asdfghjklinkin » Tue Oct 18, 2016 10:13 am

That's a little bit dramatic, innit? Your achievements are saved in your game, not your save file, so you needn't worry about that. Besides that, considering the limited amount of content at the moment, it shouldn't even really take you that long to get back to the point you were at in your previous save file.

There's so many ways to play the game already, with all the different largos and such, I start over often to try out different ways to play.
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Re: My saved game isnt working HELP!

Postby peapod » Sat May 13, 2017 2:01 pm

I've been getting the same thing. I've done everything that people have suggested to fix it, but nothing has worked. I've even started the game over again with new save files four times now, and every time the next time I launch the game, the invalid format message is there, greeting me like an old friend.
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Re: My saved game isnt working HELP!

Postby JasontheBasin » Mon May 22, 2017 4:14 am

yikes. I don't know what to say but


You're screwed.
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