savegames

[jaymc]

Hey people,

I've been tyring to find the right tread to post to but think this may be as close as it gets.
I had a dual boot system xp on the c: drive an vista on the f:, had m2tw installed on vista but vista's not working now, was wondering if i install the game ontop of itself from inside xp will my save games be there or where are they (are they a file i can copy)...or whats the story ??

all help greatly appreciated,
Jay

[Per Ole]

I've never fooled around with Vista, but the save games are in the SEGA\Medieval II Total War\saves folder, and you can copy paste them into a fresh installation and use them. I'd recommend copy pasting them somewhere else on your computer, so they won't dissappear when you uninstall M2TW

[Budwise]

Make your life easy and just REINSTALL Vista over vista.

[sapi]

Make your life easy and just REINSTALL Vista over vista.

A reformat would be safer, but would require backing up data

@jaymc, they're in the folder Per Ole mentioned ([root m2tw]\saves); just copy them out and back in on a new installation and they'll work fine, provided it's the same version.

Saves created using mods are in [root m2tw]\[modname]\saves

[Budwise]

A reformat would be safer, but would require backing up data

@jaymc, they're in the folder Per Ole mentioned ([root m2tw]\saves); just copy them out and back in on a new installation and they'll work fine, provided it's the same version.

Saves created using mods are in [root m2tw]\[modname]\saves

I know that as well but I don't know his experience with a computer and its often worth the hour to try this over forgetting to back up that one file and losing it forever that you will need later.

[sapi]

If m2tw is on the vista drive, a reinstall will probably delete it anyway.

A repair, on the other hand, might not, but is likely more trouble than it's worth.