Restoring Half-Life 1 saved games on a new machine

[Todd]

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I've just installed HL1 on my new computer, and I'm trying to reload
my old saved game (I never completed the game). I seem to be losing
about half the game.

The files in the saved folder are:

Half-Life-00#.sav (0 to 6)
c2a#?.HL#

After trying to load the saved game, the c2a files are deleted,
replaced with c1a files. And I don't think I'm anywhere near where I
was in the game. (The choppers were attacking and I was swimming.)

Can anyone tell me what's going on?

 

[Guest]

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I can't tell you what's going on but you could try some other saved
games.
visit:
http://www.planetphillip.com/files/index.php?dir=hlsg/
andtry on eof them, that might tell you whether it's the saved games or
your game installation.

hth
Phillip
http://www.planetphillip.com/
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[Guest]

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"Todd" <nobody@nowhere.net> wrote in message
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> I've just installed HL1 on my new computer, and I'm trying to reload
> my old saved game (I never completed the game). I seem to be losing
> about half the game.
>
> The files in the saved folder are:
>
> Half-Life-00#.sav (0 to 6)
> c2a#?.HL#
>
> After trying to load the saved game, the c2a files are deleted,
> replaced with c1a files. And I don't think I'm anywhere near where I
> was in the game. (The choppers were attacking and I was swimming.)
>
> Can anyone tell me what's going on?

Did you back up your old saved games somewhere? If so, you can just move the
Half-Life-###.sav files directly into the new saved game folder. You don't need
those other files, they will be generated automatically.

The default location is:
C:\Program Files\Valve\Steam\SteamApps\<username>\half-life\valve\SAVE

If you were previously only doing quick saves, and you didn't back up the old
quick.sav and quick01.sav, you're out of luck. (Never a good idea to rely on
quick saves)

--
Paul