Alte Hase Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 I've had CM:B and CM:AK for about a year and have no problems. I recently purchased CM:Beyond Overlord and discovered that I cannot save games. I hit 'Alt+S', I get the box, enter a name and ckick but no game is ever saved. There is no problem with Afrika or Barbarossa. Is this a problem beyond my own game disc? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim Boggs Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 Originally posted by Alte Hase: I've had CM:B and CM:AK for about a year and have no problems. I recently purchased CM:Beyond Overlord and discovered that I cannot save games. I hit 'Alt+S', I get the box, enter a name and ckick but no game is ever saved. There is no problem with Afrika or Barbarossa. Is this a problem beyond my own game disc? Have you tried using the "save" button at the bottom of the screen in the interface area? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rune Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 More likely you are running the game from the CD. make sure you run the game from the hard drive, and your save should work. Rune 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 Are you running the game from your hard disk or straight from the cd? Because in the latter case, you obviously can't save onto the cd. You have to both install it onto your HD and run it from there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wbs Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 I have found that if I play the game from a 'guest' signon (Microsoft Windows XP), I cannot save the game either, even on the hard drive. I have to be playing on a non-guest sign-on to save it. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted August 11, 2004 Share Posted August 11, 2004 I assume the "guest" doesn't have the right to write on HD. Good point. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alte Hase Posted August 11, 2004 Author Share Posted August 11, 2004 Thanks everyone. Overlord does not have a 'save' button on the screen like Barbarossa & Afrika. So I use 'Alt+S.' I loaded all 3 games for full installation ( on a Win XP, P4 ) but they all 3 require a cd when I start ( solitare play not MP) and Barbarossa and Afrika save OK. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergei Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 You need to have the cd in the drive - but you must not start from the cd. I don't use Autoplay so I don't know if the cd asks automatically whether to start the game when you put it into drive. But if it does, try answering no and start the game from the desktop shortcut instead (or from the CMBO directory). Then see if you can save. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted August 12, 2004 Share Posted August 12, 2004 Typically this is when you don't have permission to write in the folder your CM is started in. Unfortunately CM belongs to those kind of applications that just omit any kind of error checking or messages for filesystem errors Reasons can be: - started from CD - started from network drive which is readonly - started from NTFS or other filesystem with user-specific permissions and your currently logged in userid may not write there Best check is to start a different application in the same folder as CM is and try to save anything from that application. Or use the command prompt, cd to that dir and say "dir > l". [ August 13, 2004, 07:59 AM: Message edited by: redwolf ] 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alte Hase Posted August 12, 2004 Author Share Posted August 12, 2004 Danke. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted August 13, 2004 Share Posted August 13, 2004 Bitteschön. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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