robbiekhan
09-05-2008, 09:59 PM
Lo all, having an issue in Vista.
Now it will be worth noting I had the same issue with the UT3 demo when that came out, the workaround for the demo then was to manually create the game save folder structure within the My Docs folder (User folder in Vista) and the reason for this is that I have my "documents" folders mapped to a 2nd hdd away from the Windows disk so the demo kept ooking for the game save folder in the default location and NOT the 2nd hdd location since that's the "my documents" folder for my system.
EDIT*
The other alternative to UT3 was to create a -nohomedir switch to the games shortcut which forced it to create savegames in the game installation folder...trying this now!
EDIT2*
The above did not work....
Other people had the same problem.
Now I asked elsewhere if someone could post the folder structure to the Gamesave folder so that I could manually create it and see if it works but alas it does not.
I have been told that this is the correct structure from someone who has the demo on Vista:
C:\Users\MYUSERNAME\Documents\Codemasters\GRID Demo\savegame
Now I have created the Codemasters\GRID Demo\savegame structure every location that could be seen as a save location by the game and it still does not work, this is what happens ingame (http://robbiekhan.co.uk/root/games/GRID/GRID_savegameissue.wmv) [1.6MB WMV] when trying to create the initial profile.
- I am on Vista32 Ultimate, I have UAC off, I have AVAST AV only set to scan on create/modify. I don't use any other resident scanners that may interfere.
- I have 2 harddrives, C: is Windows and M: is My Documents with all folders from user/username mapped here as the default location.
- I have tried running the game in "safe mode" as it is an available option from Vista Game Explorer too but the same happens there.
I need to play this demo man!
Now it will be worth noting I had the same issue with the UT3 demo when that came out, the workaround for the demo then was to manually create the game save folder structure within the My Docs folder (User folder in Vista) and the reason for this is that I have my "documents" folders mapped to a 2nd hdd away from the Windows disk so the demo kept ooking for the game save folder in the default location and NOT the 2nd hdd location since that's the "my documents" folder for my system.
EDIT*
The other alternative to UT3 was to create a -nohomedir switch to the games shortcut which forced it to create savegames in the game installation folder...trying this now!
EDIT2*
The above did not work....
Other people had the same problem.
Now I asked elsewhere if someone could post the folder structure to the Gamesave folder so that I could manually create it and see if it works but alas it does not.
I have been told that this is the correct structure from someone who has the demo on Vista:
C:\Users\MYUSERNAME\Documents\Codemasters\GRID Demo\savegame
Now I have created the Codemasters\GRID Demo\savegame structure every location that could be seen as a save location by the game and it still does not work, this is what happens ingame (http://robbiekhan.co.uk/root/games/GRID/GRID_savegameissue.wmv) [1.6MB WMV] when trying to create the initial profile.
- I am on Vista32 Ultimate, I have UAC off, I have AVAST AV only set to scan on create/modify. I don't use any other resident scanners that may interfere.
- I have 2 harddrives, C: is Windows and M: is My Documents with all folders from user/username mapped here as the default location.
- I have tried running the game in "safe mode" as it is an available option from Vista Game Explorer too but the same happens there.
I need to play this demo man!