no saved game show when i start game : V

» Mon May 28, 2012 3:39 am

i cant figure out how to get my saved games back, i still have all of them as i am looking right at them (in documents/my games/skyrim) however when i start the game its like i have no saved games and the load option is greyed out, its like i just ran the game for the first time

» Sun May 27, 2012 4:06 pm

Try running TESV.exe as Administrator.

» Mon May 28, 2012 4:52 am

already tried setting everything to run as admin, just tried it again, still nothing, i have steam running as admin that file you said and skyrimlauncher.exe, still isnt showing the saves

» Sun May 27, 2012 1:58 pm

i still have no fix for this

» Sun May 27, 2012 11:44 pm

They should be in documents/my games/skyrim/saves .

if it's not already there, just make it and move the files into it.

» Sun May 27, 2012 7:01 pm

yes all of the saves are there, however when i start the game there are no saved games at all

» Sun May 27, 2012 3:03 pm

Copy your old savegames to a save place. Just in case.

Start a new game. Play the first scenes until you leave Helgen. Make a save game. Check in-game to see if there is indeed a save-game. Check the name of the savegame. Log out of the game.

Now start a search for your new savegame. Something like "Save 1 - Prisoner Skyrim". Search the whole C:partition for a directory called Saves. Or a file called "SkyrimPrefs.ini". Search other partitions too.

Hopefully you will now have found where the game wants to store savegames. Maybe something changed. Maybe you're playing from another Windows-account. Who knows.

Copy your old savefiles to the new locations. Start the game. See if your savefiles now show up. Good luck.

» Mon May 28, 2012 4:13 am

yes all of the saves are there, however when i start the game there are no saved games at all

when looking at the folder with your saves, click the top line (address bar at top)it will change to a directory listing, copy and paste that here...

Example...C:\Users\Dark\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves

IS steam installed to "Program files", if true...and UAC is on in win 7 move it ...

» Mon May 28, 2012 3:19 am

Copy your old savegames to a save place. Just in case.

Start a new game. Play the first scenes until you leave Helgen. Make a save game. Check in-game to see if there is indeed a save-game. Check the name of the savegame. Log out of the game.

Now start a search for your new savegame. Something like "Save 1 - Prisoner Skyrim". Search the whole C:partition for a directory called Saves. Or a file called "SkyrimPrefs.ini". Search other partitions too.

Hopefully you will now have found where the game wants to store savegames. Maybe something changed. Maybe you're playing from another Windows-account. Who knows.

Copy your old savefiles to the new locations. Start the game. See if your savefiles now show up. Good luck.

this worked, although the search failed to locate the save file i did a manual search myself and found out that my games are now being saved on a different user account, so i deleted what was in there and replaced it with all of my old data and am now playing on my character