Divine Divinity (PC)

[Ivo]

It's been quite a while since I played through DD, but I had a look in my save game archive (shut up ) and the savegame folder creates folders were the name that you gave to the save. Inside each there are a number of files. There are a bunch that have a 000 (that's the number zero) extension. So maybe look in your recycle bin or search the hard drive for *.000.

Good luck.

I have a save game archive myself. Sadly it seems I won't be adding DD to it.

I can't find the stuff on search, must have been deleted somehow - but I'm trying to look with an undelete program (Recuva - forgotten I already found a nice one a while ago, already had it installed). But didn't really find anything in the savegame folder. I was thinking that maybe on Vista with the no-CD and latest patch the saves were stored elsewhere as otherwise they would not be deleted simultaneous on the main folder and the copy...

I just saved a new one to look at the structure of it (a folder with the name, and then several files, many of them *.000 as you said). However it placed it right in the savegame folder which doesn't exist in my "full folder" copy, and the "full folder" copy (when I run through it) doesn't see it, and I also tried saving there and a savegame folder got created. I don't understand this. Why wouldn't the "savegame" folder by copied in the first place?

Ivo.

[Hobie-wan]

Are you on 64 bit Vista? If so are you looking in the Program Files (x86) folder at your DD folder?

[Ivo]

Are you on 64 bit Vista? If so are you looking in the Program Files (x86) folder at your DD folder?

Hi Hobie,

I located the files (I actually did it before you suggested this but when I tried to post the Racketboy site was giving me some error), and indeed they were somewhere on the Users folders.

The questions I have now are not important but...
Why didn't the Windows Search locate the files (I guess it sucks!)
Why the hell did the game STOP looking for the savegames in the Users folder and start looking in its own "Savegame" folder.

The way I figured out was that my google searches found a Yahoo Answers question about the location of savegames on Vista, then I found a thread on Llarian's forums about the location. The fact that my "Full folder" copy didn't have a savegame folder was a signal for this kind of issue, as well as both the copy and the non-copied games having missed the savegames when I hadn't touched the copy (this still puzzles me).

Guess I just can't trust Windows search. Must get a different program to do this next time.

I copied the folder from the "Users folder" to somewhere safe (just in case) and also put it on the game folder and now I can load. Also I think I got the No-CD out by reinstalling the game and not applying the No-CD patch.

Apparently I will have this game on my archive afterall I think more people should keep an archive - and in fact it is a shame that there aren't good places to submit and get save game files on the web (Gamefaqs has some stuff, as far as I see mostly for consoles / emulated stuff; but the few times I tried it doesn't work anyway).

I remember sending someone here in the forums a save of an jRPG (was it Lunar?) just after a CD change that they weren't able to pass. That sort of thing can be helpful.

Thanks a bunch for the help Hobie. You were my only hope
Ivo.

[Hobie-wan]

I located the files (I actually did it before you suggested this but when I tried to post the Racketboy site was giving me some error), and indeed they were somewhere on the Users folders.

Awesome, glad you're back in business.

Most No-CD patches either replace the main executable or a DLL related to the copy protection, so a reinstall probably would have overwritten with original versions.

[Ivo]

I located the files (I actually did it before you suggested this but when I tried to post the Racketboy site was giving me some error), and indeed they were somewhere on the Users folders.

Awesome, glad you're back in business.

Most No-CD patches either replace the main executable or a DLL related to the copy protection, so a reinstall probably would have overwritten with original versions.

Yes, that part wasn't the tricky part. The tricky part was my saves vanishing in the middle of my messing around with versions (there is also a patch and reinstalling puts it at a pre-patched version).

My guess is that both versions would save in the local folder in XP etc, and in Vista somehow old version saves in local and the patched version creates saves in Users unless there is already a savegame folder in local. I must have tried the non-patched version without noticing, which created a local folder.
Or something weird like that. Not important anyway

Ivo.