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I've been getting a crash bug that I cant solve, when ever I try to use the elevators to go to floors 4 or 5 in the Glow the game crashes and I can't see the error message.
I'm trying to see if running as administrator will fix this but when I run the game as administrator all of my savegames are gone. How can I get them to appear for administrator?
Is there a save game folder? Where is it located? I have the game installed to c:program filesGOGFallout if that is any help.
Inside the DATA folder for Fallout, there's a "Savegame" folder, which as a number of "Slot ##" folders in it. I'd guess each one is for the various Slots you save games in.
No idea why being in Admin mode and not being in it causes you to lose saves. <_<
Edit: Of course, now after I posted that, I noticed the other thread about missing Vista saves. >_<
I've got my version installed on D:/Games/Fallout, so saves are located in the folder.
Post edited September 22, 2008 by Peppermint
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Sprockets13: I've been getting a crash bug that I cant solve, when ever I try to use the elevators to go to floors 4 or 5 in the Glow the game crashes and I can't see the error message.
I'm trying to see if running as administrator will fix this but when I run the game as administrator all of my savegames are gone. How can I get them to appear for administrator?
Is there a save game folder? Where is it located? I have the game installed to c:program filesGOGFallout if that is any help.

Sounds to me like you're running Vista and have installed the game to the default installation path. This will place the game in Program Files and due to how Vista handles applications that write data directly within the Program Files folder you are experiencing this problem.
When you're running as Administrator the game has full permissions to write directly where the game was installed, however when you are running as a non-administrator Vista will write data to a VirtualStore AppDataLocalVirtualStore. You should be able to find your old saved games in the AppData folder for whichever user you were previously trying to run the game with.
Edit: Sorry looks like this forum stripped the formatting on that file path. Hopefully you can figure it out, though. :)
Post edited September 23, 2008 by dersunde
I have an administrator account in my home computer if I just run the game there are no save slots in the savegame folder even though I can load games from the program. If in the other hand if I run the game as administrator, I can't load the games from the program that were created when running the program in default mode, they are just gone but now if I save a game I can see the save slot folder in the savegame directory. It is the strangest thing.
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Elqui: I have an administrator account in my home computer if I just run the game there are no save slots in the savegame folder even though I can load games from the program. If in the other hand if I run the game as administrator, I can't load the games from the program that were created when running the program in default mode, they are just gone but now if I save a game I can see the save slot folder in the savegame directory. It is the strangest thing.
This sounds normal actually. When you are not running the game as administrator, it redirects your save files to the Virtual Store, because it is "protecting" your Program Files folder. When you DO run as administrator, your savegames are going to the normal location within the game folder.

There are two fixes:

1) Always run the game as administrator.

2) Install the game somewhere OTHER than Program Files. You can do this by clicking the "options" button in the GOG installer before installing.

I recommend the second solution... that way it doesn't matter whether or not you're running as administrator, the save games should still be consistent. However, it's probably a good idea to be running the game as administrator anyway.
Ok I have a similar problem. A while ago my savegames just disappeared. I hadn't played for a few weeks, thought I'd load up Fallout again, and my savegames were just gone.

Afaik I've always run it as admin. The game isn't installed into Program Files. I run Win 7.

If I look in the save folder, there are no files there...

Also there are no files in C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\*app_name*\*save_folder* (For Win7) as suggested in this thread.
Post edited March 28, 2013 by Jouke
Worrying reports. I hope to hear of a solution or preventional methos before I go ahead and replay this game.
Yeah I wasn't too far in, but I'm a bit worried about restarting in case it happens again :S
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Jouke: Ok I have a similar problem. A while ago my savegames just disappeared. I hadn't played for a few weeks, thought I'd load up Fallout again, and my savegames were just gone.

Afaik I've always run it as admin. The game isn't installed into Program Files. I run Win 7.

If I look in the save folder, there are no files there...

Also there are no files in C:\Users\(your username)\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\*app_name*\*save_folder* (For Win7) as suggested in this thread.
I just faced this same problem, and I also run Windows 7. Lost my level 72 character, or thought I did, so I couldn't accept it. I did however find the damn files from the same location you didn't (...\VirtualStore\...). Frustrating, but typical Windows behaviour. This isn't really helping you, but files just don't vanish like that. Keep looking.