Help please.

[finalcut]

Help,I am trying to play an Email game with my brother,but I cannot find my saved games.I am usuing Vista,and my saved games folder is empty.I have no idea where my games are being saved to.

I have checked every nook and cranny in the Battlefront folders and there are no saved games there anywhere.Where else could they be going.My comp seems to eat them.I have several saved campaigns and can't find them either.Any ideas?Thanks.

[Moon]

Saved games go into "./Game Files/Saved Games" folder. If it's empty, then you may be running into a problem with Vista/Windows 7 that is preventing the files form actually being saved to disc. The fix would be to make sure that you run the game with full admin rights (Right-click->Properties->Run as administrator).

[Schrullenhaft]

As Moon has pointed out, you most likely have run the game without 'Administrator rights'. When you do this, then UAC (User Account Control) is in effect and it will silently move any files that are written to any directory within the '\Program Files' directory to a 'VirtualStore' directory hidden in the user's account folder (Thank you Microsoft...).

Open up the Windows Explorer file manager (Start/Windows Menu > All Programs > Accessories > 'Windows Explorer'). When this opens up go to the Menu and click on 'Organize'. Go to "Folder and search options". Click on the 'View' tab and in the 'Advanced settings' section under the 'Hidden files and folders' sub-section make the radio-button selection for 'Show hidden files and folders'. Click 'Apply' and then 'OK'. You should now be able to see hidden files and folders. Now browse to the following folder in your user account:

'\Users\{your account name}\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files\Battlefront\Combat Mission Shock Force\Game Files\Outgoing Email'

'{your account name}' is the account name that you logon to Windows Vista with.

[finalcut]

Thank you very much,this fixed it.You guys are awesome,If I ever win the lottery I will buy you each your very own Stryker to place in your drive way.. Hope the neighbors don't mind.You don't live in deed restricted developments do you?

[c3k]

finalcut,

I had this problem awhile ago. If you continue to search your files, you'll notice that you have TWO copies of the GAME FILES folder. One of them is exactly where Schrullenhaft noted it, the other is in the default location created by the game.

My problem arose when I could not FIND saved games to delete them.

(Others are far more knowledgable than I about this, but it seems like the game install creates the folders where it is supposed to create them, but then Vista decides that it is uberpowerful and tries to help out and creates EXTRA folders in a location more useful to Vista. Then there are dueling dual folders. Confusion follows.)

My workaround was simple. I backed up all my saved games, etc. Then I uninstalled CMSF. I reinstalled CMSF, but NOT to the default location. I created a special folder just for CMSF. This forced both CMSF's install routine AND Vista to create folders in only one location. I then copied all my saved data into the newly created CMSF folders.

No issues ever since.

Best of luck!

Ken