Hey everyone. I played Tyrian 2000 in campaign mode for a couple hours today, and I was saving a lot. Then I alt-tabbed out to do something else, and the game would not resume when I switched back (it starts in full screen, and then alt-tabbing out creates a window for the game - I use WIndows 7). Sometimes alt-tab doesn't hurt the game, but other times it does - and using keyboard commands to change master volume also tabs out.

Anyway, I just booted up the game again, and I have no save game files available. Do you have to close the program a certain way to ensure the creation of a file? Is this a common issue? Are there good ways to avoid alt-tab crashiness?

Thanks.

I just tried saving a game and then terminating the process externally, and the save was still present when I restarted.

Maybe you accidentally got kicked over to the Player 2 list of saves? Try paging back to the left.

Hmmmm, good idea, but nothing is there. I don't know if crashing is worse than externally closing it. It would be good to know if it wasn't just me.

Generally the program crashing won't affect your files unless they were being accessed at the time of the crash, but I have seen some stupid exceptions.

Maybe try running the game in administrator mode? I've heard that Windows 7 can cause problems with save games due to disk write privileges or some such.

Yes, "Run as administrator" was something I thought to try right after I posted. I can't believe I'm not in the habit of doing this every time yet - it changes Windows from being broken 40% of the time to being broken 8% of the time.

We'll see if I ever have trouble again - good idea. If someone can confirm that that's exactly what the known issue is, then I'll probably mark this as a solution.

Ok, I changed the graphics mode AND I ran as administrator. I couldn't mark both as solutions. But there you go.