save files won't load after reinstalling the mod

[Greasy Dave]

Came back from my holidays and Steam for some reason decided that MTW2 wasn't present in my Steam account/file and I'd need to reinstall it if I wanted to play (despite the fact I had a full install on my disk).

Fine, I left the pc on overnight and let it do it's thing. MTW2 was reinstalled and playable. Good.

When I'd first installed TATW a few months back, I had renamed it as my americas file, as was described somewhere on this forum and laucnhed it from americas.

Now I had MTW2 "reinstalled" I opened the mod folder and found that "americas" still contained my TATW files. However it wouldn't load. No problem.

I still had the original installer files saved elsewhere so i reinstalled TATW. Hey, presto, there it is in my mods folder.

I renamed the "americas" file, "old TATW" and renamed TATW to "americas" loaded up and of I went to Middleearth.

So what's the problem. no problem. Except, I tried copying a few of my old SAV files from the old folder into the new "americas" (I had a campaign running that I'd already sunk about 50 hours into and it'd be a shame to lose it) and they won't load. I can launch TATW. From the game menu I can choose load campaign. If I choose one of the old files, the game crashes.

I should add, that before the "reinstall" I made a back up copy of the save games and I've also tried putting those into the save file in the new "americas" folder,and they won't work either. It's very odd. There is one change I've noticed when I start TATW this time round, the opening 3.2 launch screen is different to the one I used to get. I honestly can't remember what used to be there, or if there was even a launch screen and it instead opened straight onto the sound blaster clip - but the red screen with the circle that I see now is completely new to me. I'm confused because I used the exact installer files I used last time round.

Any ideas what could have happened? Are the save files corrupted?

There was a slight difference in the way I installed this version of TATW as opposed to the original install. This time round I bothered to read the whole of the read me and actually went to the effort of changing the security permissions of the USer profile in the properties section of MTW2 as outlined in the sticky to patch 3.2. I didn't do that with my original install. Surely that wouldn't make the SAV files from that install now incompatible?

Any suggestions or is the campaign gone?

thanks, in advance

[ElvenKind]

Install TATW/ or copy-paste your Third Age 3 folder , do not rename Third_Age_3 folder. Use these steps from post # 16: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...hird-Age-Issue

Good luck!

[Greasy Dave]

Thanks. Too bad though, the suggestions don't work. I can launch the game and new campaigns no problem. But the saves from the previous install, pre- August won't open. CTD. OK. well a new campaign then

[ElvenKind]

Thanks. Too bad though, the suggestions don't work. I can launch the game and new campaigns no problem. But the saves from the previous install, pre- August won't open. CTD. OK. well a new campaign then

It probably has something to do with the newest Steam update which removed the kingdoms.exe file, which is needed for saved games of your mods made for the Kingdoms expansion, if you know what I mean.

Best to start a new campaign, also, if you play vanilla TATW 3.2, there is a chance that you can get a Reinforcement bug, and, fix for it is here: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...1#post12681263