Unable to load saved games

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barnaclebob

First time out of the vault
I spent a long time searching out this issue and i cannot find it mentioned any where. When i go to load a saved game, I get the error "Could not load campaign". new games work just fine and if i save the game right after starting without doing anything it also works and will load just fine. At first i thought it was because i was running it from an ext3 raid 0 drive mounted in windows, so i moved it to my software raid 5 drive and it still did it. New games work just fine and the saves are being created at a reasonable size. Running windows xp on a fast Athlon and a ok graphics card. any help would be super appreciated. If this game is hard in tough guy mode then imagine it without any saves :)
 
New one on me, but if other people are to help you they need to know.

Have you patched the game to 1.27? (or 1.26 German)

What are your specs, fast Athlon doesn't tell them much.

What is your installation path.

When you 'moved' FOT did you just move it or uninstall reinstall.

How far did you get before you couldn't load any saves? Have you completed the first mission and gone to the world map okay?

Is your Mis-Main_0.bos corrupted? It should be 28,523kb.

Are you running any mods?
 
yes its 1.27 patch.
athlon fx 55 w/ 2 gb of ram
its installed to h:\games\Fallout Tactics
i only just moved the game. copy paste. nothing is corrupted as far as i can tell. i can play the game just fine until i want to load something. if i save and load it in a new game without doing anything at all (even talking to the elder the first time will cause it) it works fine. soon as i do something and save it seems to save fine. the game just can not load it after that. i think i will try to install it in linux using cedega and see what happens
 
I get this often. Try to keep 2 saves, because one gets corrupted like that and I revert to the other.
 
Hi, I have just finished the mission in Junction City after killing all the reavers and talked to the Mayor and got the last piece of the robot parts and saved the game. I exited the game and the bos.exe error appeared, so I thought the game has crashed.

Then I realized that the whole fallout tactics folder was gone and I have to use a file recovery program to get back my save files. Unfortunately, the only files that I managed to recover were the sav files that I have created such as 001.sav, 002.sav and 003.sav.

I tried to reinstall fallout tactics and reloaded the save files but the bos.exe error pops out all the time.

May I know whether there is other file that I have to recover in order to load the save files successfully?

Additionally, I have patch v1.27 installed for the previous and the latest installation.
 
The .sav files are all that is needed. Sounds like they've been corrupted along with your installation. Something is drastically wrong if your whole game folder got deleted. Can you start a new game and save & load without it crashing?
 
Hi, thank you very much for your reply. I really appreciate it.

Firstly, I did a new full installation on not 1 but 2 different PCs (followed by the 1.27 patch, of course) and tried to load the save files but to no avail. When I clicked on the load button, the bos.exe error appeared and I don't even have a chance to view the screenshot and information of the saved games.

Secondly, I managed to start a new game, save and load the new saved game without any issue. So, I suspected that the save files that I recovered using the file recovery has corrupted the files or most probably the files were not recovered properly. Looks like my effort of a few dozen hours on the game has gone down the drain.

Finally, I think I will restart with a new game and get the .sav files copied to a usb drive after each mission to prevent this from happening again.

Thanks again, requiem, in your effort to reply me.

Best regards.
 
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