How To Use Downloaded Saves

[AdmiralZeratul]

So, I’ve been getting into this beautiful gem of a game again (So happy it’s on Steam now! :woohoo:), and I wanted to skip ahead of act 0 and most of act 1, since I recently played past those parts before I got the Steam version. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find any instructions on how to use the save file I downloaded. Could someone please explain for me?

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Overthinking is kind of a habit of mine.

[admin]

Just put the .sav file into the “saves” folder inside the game.

If there is not saves folder, create one and put the file in there. 🙂

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Space. The final frontier.

[AdmiralZeratul]

[quote=”schmatzler” post=19722]Just put the .sav file into the “saves” folder inside the game.

If there is not saves folder, create one and put the file in there. :)[/quote]

Thank you, Sir, and thank you very much for restoring one of my favorite sites on the web! I must say it looks much more… modern, for lack of a better word.

However, this did not work at first, for some reason. I used “verify integrity of game cache” within Steam, and it downloaded most of the game’s files again. It turns out that many of them were missing!

So, I try it again, and it still doesn’t work. Was it supposed to go in the main game directory?

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Overthinking is kind of a habit of mine.

[admin]

Not exactly in the main directory, it goes into

C:/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/Independence War 2 – Edge of Chaos/saves/

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Space. The final frontier.

[AdmiralZeratul]

[quote=”schmatzler” post=19724]Not exactly in the main directory, it goes into

C:/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/Independence War 2 – Edge of Chaos/saves/[/quote]

I probably should have specified, but I already tried that.

I guess there isn’t much hope of this method working. I recall there being a way to skip forward in the story using a setting in flux.ini. Do you know what it is?

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Overthinking is kind of a habit of mine.

[admin]

I just checked – some of the gamesaves aren’t named correctly.

Make sure to put it in the save folder and rename it to “savegame0.sav” – it loaded for me then. I got a save file called “savegame06.sav” which didn’t work without renaming.

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Space. The final frontier.

[AdmiralZeratul]

[quote=”schmatzler” post=19726]I just checked – some of the gamesaves aren’t named correctly.

Make sure to put it in the save folder and rename it to “savegame0.sav” – it loaded for me then. I got a save file called “savegame06.sav” which didn’t work without renaming.[/quote]

It worked! Holy smokes! Thank you!

I wonder if Az and Lori missed me.

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Overthinking is kind of a habit of mine.

[BlackChinx]

Hello Guys,

I’ve got a GOG version, and saves folder is empty (but exists), whilst when I go to the load game section of the menu, I find my saves. Just not in the game folder. I tried the fix you just suggested, but it didn’t work out.

Where else does the game stores the .sav files ?

Can I use anything else to go to a specific mission?

Thanks !

[Chessking]

I do not have the GOG version but maybe this conversation will provide you with an answer:
GOG forum.

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[BlackChinx]

hI,

Excellent it works!

So, for other people who stumble upon this problem, the solution is simple, just go to:
C: Users (username) AppData Local VirtualStore Program Files (x86) GOG.com IWAR2 saves

you will find what you need 🙂

Thanks for the help Chessking !!

BC

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