Corrupted saves

[TorpX]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

I just contend that errors we encounter are so random that superstition takes over and we find ourselves doing unnecessary things.

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Could even be an iteraction between Windows, certain hardware configurations and the game. Who knows?

I am inclined to agree.

About the hardware/OS interactions, I used to be able to Alt-Tab out of SH4, without consequences (this with Vista). Now, with Win7, I have problems every time. The worst of these being, that my battery will drain away at triple speed. Not good!

[aanker]

Originally Posted by TorpX

About the hardware/OS interactions, I used to be able to Alt-Tab out of SH4, without consequences (this with Vista). Now, with Win7, I have problems every time. The worst of these being, that my battery will drain away at triple speed. Not good!

Fortunately I have had Zero problems with Win 7, Alt-Tabbing to desktop from SH4, and returning to SH4.

Win 7 was already installed when I bought this computer.

Because I don't want my personal data to be anywhere near the possibility of a hackable 'Cloud', plus I don't like the user interface of Win 8 or Win 10, I bought a backup Win 7 install disk to install Win 7 and the Win7 drivers on any future computer I may build or buy. When I do buy a new computer (if anything happens) I will replace the HD, install Win 7 on it, the Win 7 drivers, and be on my way.

Zip, zap, voilà : )

[Rockin Robbins]

Originally Posted by aanker

Because I don't want my personal data to be anywhere near the possibility of a hackable 'Cloud', plus I don't like the user interface of Win 8 or Win 10, I bought a backup Win 7 install disk to install Win 7 on any future computer I may build or buy. When I do buy a new computer (if anything happens) I will replace the HD, install Win 7 on it, the Win 7 drivers, and be on my way.

Zip, zap, voilà : )

It isn't quite that simple. First you have to crowbar Windows 8, 8.1 or 10 to let you boot from a normal disk without UEFI. That means you have to get into the system BIOS, carefully guarded by the new Windows malware. You must turn UEFI off in the advanced BIOS settings. That way you can boot Windows 7.

At that point you can just do a transplant of hard drives from your old computer to the new one and boot the system. Bam! You're in business with an asterisk.

The asterisk is that you'll have to reactivate Windows. Do it by phone call--it's an automated process and it works every time.

So it's more like zip, zap, fiddle, fiddle but so far (and I look for that to change as Microsoft's fangs continue to grow) you can make a computer made for Windows 8 or above boot Windows 7.

[aanker]

Originally Posted by Rockin Robbins

It isn't quite that simple. First yuo ehav ot rcrowab Iswnwdo 8, 8.1 or 10 tenw Sidwnow oobt Owdiwns ......... .............. ..... ... .......... ......... ....... ...... above boot Windows 7.

If I can't do it myself, when the time comes that I do need to do it, those issues will have been addressed and solutions found.

Thank you

[G7eT2]

Hey vmialpha454,

Sometimes you can make a troublesome save work by loading a single mission or earlier campaign save first, and then loading the reluctant save from there.

It may require more than one try.