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    $@@#%^@%

    I just got the game yesterday and when I quit it always reverts back to the start right before the golden path dudes rescue me. I've mad it to the bell tower, saw it say "check point" auto save and I've also click save+quit , I DO nOT even have a "save" only button just save and quite and exit to desk top. WTF! Played up to the bell tower twice now and the same thing. Waste of time!
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    Originally Posted by Piiman Go to original post
    I just got the game yesterday and when I quit it always reverts back to the start right before the golden path dudes rescue me. I've mad it to the bell tower, saw it say "check point" auto save and I've also click save+quit , I DO nOT even have a "save" only button just save and quite and exit to desk top. WTF! Played up to the bell tower twice now and the same thing. Waste of time!
    I'm going to answer my own post. lol

    OK this is what I found

    Here are my findings. It looks more like it isn't reading the correct save file.
    The fc4 save folder is inside C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\savegames\(that long numbered folder)\420\
    Mine had
    1.save
    1.save.upload
    2.save
    2. saveupload

    I deleted them and restarted game.

    Game started fresh from the beginning (went and cut the lawn as I waited for that long *** cut scene to finish since we can't skip them).

    The first auto save is when you leave the house and go downstairs (1.save)
    I get rescued and after you are rammed off the road the game auto saves again (2.save)

    Now if you restart it just reads the 1.save file NOT the 2.save
    I deleted 1.save and I then restarted and I was were you are when you get rammed off the road. (this is where I should be at this point)

    So for some reason the game will only read 1.save every time you start. WTF?

    Hope this helps you guys! I'm going to play some more now and see what happens at the next auto save point.

    Oh also after deleting the 1.save file and I do a save & quit it didn't complain about me losing unsaved progress either so that may be a good sign.

    UPDATE

    ok i've gotten to the bell tower and two more auto saves and it is now working! It did make a new 1.save but so far it looks good.
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    Originally Posted by Piiman Go to original post
    Game started fresh from the beginning (went and cut the lawn as I waited for that long *** cut scene to finish since we can't skip them).
    ROFL! That's about the right amount of time it takes to mow my lawn too!

    Question, did you delete just the subfolders within that main numbered folder, or the whole numbered folder?
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    Originally Posted by tunnelcat Go to original post
    ROFL! That's about the right amount of time it takes to mow my lawn too!

    Question, did you delete just the subfolders within that main numbered folder, or the whole numbered folder?
    No you go into that folder then into the 420 folder and just delete "1.save"
    All Ubisoft games have saves in there so if you have other ubi games you would delete them if you deleted that folder with the long 377492983864jhdhf name . The 420 folder is for fc4. (420)hmmm I guess they were high when they coded this thing. lol

    This is the path to 1.save
    C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\savegames\(that long numbered folder)\420\
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    Right now I've got these listings in that folder.

    1.save
    1.save.upload
    2.save
    2. saveupload

    They were created BEFORE I patched the game, so should I delete ALL of them and start over and suffer through that long intro again? And once they're recreated, do I need to delete only the 1.save or BOTH the 1.save and 1.save upload in order to progress in the game? I just want to make sure.
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    OK Piiman, I went ahead and deleted just the 1.save file. The game did load at the truck crash site as you found. So I went in, played for a short while and I hit another couple of checkpoints and reached that first compound, then did a "save and quit". But when I went back in, it started right back over at the truck crash site again. It didn't save any of the progress. I gather the game is supposed to save to at least the checkpoints?
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    Originally Posted by tunnelcat Go to original post
    OK Piiman, I went ahead and deleted just the 1.save file. The game did load at the truck crash site as you found. So I went in, played for a short while and I hit another couple of checkpoints and reached that first compound, then did a "save and quit". But when I went back in, it started right back over at the truck crash site again. It didn't save any of the progress. I gather the game is supposed to save to at least the checkpoints?
    I don't think it saves check points permanently those saves are done when you see the two knifes on the screen so if you didn't get to one of those auto save points it wouldn't have made a save file. Check point seem to be temp saves and are gone when you quit.

    I originally deleted both but then you have to start over and you might want to get ready to cut your lawn lol I then played through 2 auto saves, not check points. I could tell the new saves were from the current game by their time stamps so I knew it was in fact saving. I then just deleted the 1.save and when I started the game I could tell it had moved forward because the game said my progression was higher than it was before I deleted 1.save (does that make sense?) anyways at that point I started and I was at the second save point and its been working since then even though it now as a 1.save (I guess there are two slots)

    Hope this helps
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    OK, I guess I'll bite the bullet and delete both those saves and do my laundry or something waiting for that damn intro to get done......again (GROAN). On the plus side, I did miss those interior details because of the prepatch black shadows issue anyway. How come you just delete the 1.save file and not that 1.save upload file as well?

    By the way, where is the second autosave located? The Bell Tower? Thanks for your help.
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    Originally Posted by tunnelcat Go to original post
    OK, I guess I'll bite the bullet and delete both those saves and do my laundry or something waiting for that damn intro to get done......again (GROAN). On the plus side, I did miss those interior details because of the prepatch black shadows issue anyway. How come you just delete the 1.save file and not that 1.save upload file as well?

    By the way, where is the second autosave located? The Bell Tower? Thanks for your help.
    Oh yeah I did delete the 1.save.upload files I assumed they are for cloud saves and I turned off cloud saves trying to fix this (didn't work by the way) and since I have cloud saves off and those files have not generated I'm pretty sure that is what they are for. Hmm thinking about it you may want to turn off cloud saves if you have them on. I'm thinking it could be possible you will load a cloud save and be right back where the current 1.save is even after you delete the local copy. Just a thought.
    The setting for that is on the uplay launcher settings-general and its the first item you can check.

    The auto saves are
    1st. right after you go down stairs and go through the door to the hallway that leads you to were they have the dude that came with you. this is the 1.save location and is why when you start the game you/we were hallways in the hallway again. I guess its possible the game was never over writing that 1.save ??

    2nd Is after you escape and are in the car, you will get rammed off the road and the driver dies.
    This is good because you won't have to go to far before you can test if this works.

    at this point exit the game and you should now have two new save files, delete the 1.save and then start the game and hope you are at the car crash site.

    The 3rd auto save is all the way to the bell tower your heading for so if you start and are at the car crash site start playing and make your way the the tower.

    Good luck
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    Originally Posted by Piiman Go to original post
    I'm going to answer my own post. lol

    OK this is what I found

    Here are my findings. It looks more like it isn't reading the correct save file.
    The fc4 save folder is inside C:\Program Files (x86)\Ubisoft\Ubisoft Game Launcher\savegames\(that long numbered folder)\420\
    Mine had
    1.save
    1.save.upload
    2.save
    2. saveupload

    I deleted them and restarted game.

    Game started fresh from the beginning (went and cut the lawn as I waited for that long *** cut scene to finish since we can't skip them).

    The first auto save is when you leave the house and go downstairs (1.save)
    I get rescued and after you are rammed off the road the game auto saves again (2.save)

    Now if you restart it just reads the 1.save file NOT the 2.save
    I deleted 1.save and I then restarted and I was were you are when you get rammed off the road. (this is where I should be at this point)

    So for some reason the game will only read 1.save every time you start. WTF?

    Hope this helps you guys! I'm going to play some more now and see what happens at the next auto save point.

    Oh also after deleting the 1.save file and I do a save & quit it didn't complain about me losing unsaved progress either so that may be a good sign.

    UPDATE

    ok i've gotten to the bell tower and two more auto saves and it is now working! It did make a new 1.save but so far it looks good.

    Piiman you are a genius. This has fixed everything for me. I was even able to get past the rope after deleting 1.save.
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