I pre-ordered from GameStop, had to do a D/L (21 hours!!, then two patches for another 90 minutes, then the merge of two accounts, what a process!!).
Where are the save points? Each time I start the game I have to endure the complete opening sequence, the escape etc. I activated the first radio tower and the game had a "Save" icon in the upper right corner that stayed there for approximately 30 minutes while I wandered around trying to find two boars to kill/skin. Yet this morning when I turn on the game I'm back at the full opening party sequence again. It does not matter if I click on the "Continue" or the "Load Game" buttons, I still have to start from the very beginning.
I tried the "Save" button and it did not change anything (actually tried at several points yesterday).
I have Patches 1.01 and 1.02 installed. I am using Windows 8 64bit, AMD 6780 Video. The game is running on Very High and is quite smooth. I just do not want to have to begin at the beginning each time I play!
I'm pretty sure it has Win 8 support. They would have been aware of that for some extended time during development and beta testing. I am finding that there are others with the same problem. I see that there are two files in the Saved Games folder but don't know if they are actually "saves" or not. I would assume that there would be more than two files and that there would be some identifying method such as save00, save01, save02 etc. Those two files do not appear to (to me) show anything that is typical of a game save file