Where's the save games folder?

This is going to sound silly, but I can't find the EB save games folder on my computer. Windows search didn't turn it up and it's not in C:\Program Files\Activision\Rome - Total War\EB , nor anywhere else I looked. :dizzy2: I can load, save and play my save games just fine, but the text files (I assume that's what they are?) just don't seem to be there. I'd like to do some manual editing soon to get historical accuracy back on track.

Also: Hi! :happy2: I love the mod. My current Roman campaign is in 197 BC. I'm starting to groom my future Marius just now. There was a more suitable candidate who met all the requirements (before I made him a bored, frustrated governor and he discovered the amphora anyway), but he'd have to live to 78 years in order to start the reforms in 172 BC. So 35-year-old Kaeso Aurelius Cotta will have to be it. He's a rabble rousing ex-tribune of the plebs with a great love of his veto, and also a former tribune of the soldiers and plebeian aedile. Let's see if he can become consul in suo annis. He'll have to kill a lot of Galli and Lusotani over the next five years, all the more because he has 0 command stars at the moment in spite of being a talented leader. Poor guy is a connoisseur! :laugh4: Who ever would have thought that simple good taste would interfere with generalship? At least he's off to a good start with the capture of Massalia, which earned him the Confidens trait.

Anyway, any help with finding the save game file would be much appreciated.

Welcome to the forum!

They have to be in RTW\EB\saves. They only could 'vanish' if you are running RTW without administrator-rights under Vista/Win7, but that would be very, very odd.

If you are completely new to EB, be sure to not miss the EB-FAQ

XSamatan

Thanks a lot for the welcome and help! I think we're getting to the heart of the problem now. I indeed run Windows Vista. Until now I've been playing EB on the administrator account, but never via RMB-->execute as administrator, come to think of it. So I did that just now, and the "load game" menu showed none of my previous save games. So I started a new Romani campaign, and saved it. Having exited EB again, I now find that a "saves" folder containing my new save game has magically appeared in the folder you said it should be. So far so good, then.

When I open this .sav file with notepad, I find a lot of text. Some of it makes sense, much of it is just garbled symbols and nonsense. Am I using the wrong program?

As for my older save games, the "invisible" ones I got by not executing EB as administrator, am I stuck never being able to get at their text files? They can't be loaded (and hence saved) on administrator EB, so..

1. editing save-games:
I do not know anything about editing, or if it works. There is a program (RomeSage, or similar) than might help you, but maybe I'm completely wrong.
Backup the file in any case! And if you want to edit text files, do not use notepad from windows, use an alternative, like notepad++

2. your old files
Search in c:\users\.... for folders containing the name Creative Assembly, Rome Total War or EB
Vista/Win7 saves there a lot of thing related to programs, an other option would be your Documents-folder. Don't search with the Windows-search, do it manually.

XSamatan

hey I had the problem on vista too when I was playing on my notebook.
The files you search should be somewhere at your documents(or your personal data, dont know how this is called exactly in english Vista) in a folder which is called "virtual xxx", search for it the save games should be there, if u cant find them I look for the exact location up for you later.

btw Vista is quiet stupid AGAIN!

i cant find my save games either. im on windows 7 with admin rights... but the map is empty. if i load the game tho i can play the files.

Did you look into C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\VirtualStore ??

Or any other folder in C:\Users ?

XSamatan

C:\Users\"personal folder, usually with the name of your computer"\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Activision