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Anny78's avatar
12 years ago
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Reinstalled DA2 unable to read old saved files

Hello everyone, I had to reinstall my game, everything is working perfectly, all DLC, all addons, connection to the servers. The "new" game just doesn't want to read my old character saves, tried to...
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    ThandalNLyman
    12 years ago

    Something about your other characters' saves isn't right. 

    What's your folder structure?  Should look like the example below.

    In this example there are two sets of saves for the characters Cadan and Davit. 

    The first "named save" for Cadan (Slot_1) is expanded. 

    All saves should have a similar set of files within their respective "Slot_x" folders:

    Folder PATH listing for volume <Diskname>

    Volume serial number is <1A2B-3C4D>

    C:\USERS\<username>\DOCUMENTS\BIOWARE\DRAGON AGE 2

    ├───Characters

    │   ├───Cadan

    │   │   └───Saves

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_1

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_2

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_3

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_4

    │   │       ├───PostCampaign_1

    │   │       ├───QuickSave_1

    │   │       ├───Slot_1

    │   │       │   ├───SaveName.das

    │   │       │   ├───SaveName.das.met

    │   │       │   ├───Cadan.jpg

    │   │       │   ├───Cadan_Story.xml

    │   │       │   └───Screens.dds

    │   │       ├───Slot_2

    │   │       ├───Slot_3

    │   │       ├───Slot_...

    │   │       └───Slot_n

    │   └───Davit

    │       └───Saves

    │           ├───AutoSave_1

    │           ├───AutoSave_2

    │           ├───AutoSave_3

    │           ├───AutoSave_4

    │           ├───PostCampaign_1

    │           ├───QuickSave_1

    │           ├───Slot_1

    │           ├───Slot_2

    │           ├───Slot_3

    │           ├───Slot_...

    │           └───Slot_n

    ├───Logs

    ├───News

    ├───Offers

    ├───packages

    ├───Screenshots

    └───Settings

    Do you find anyting different in your earlier saves?

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