Default Corrupt Savegame Recovered
Hi Guys,
Good to see I'm not the only one to fire up DiRT 2 this evening and find my savegame is corrupt. Could it just be coincidence that I only ran GFWL for the first time yesterday? I wonder. But either way, I've managed to recover (almost) all my saved progress. Here's what I did:
1. Copied my corrupt My Games\DiRT 2 folder to a safe place.
2. Started the game and created a new profile, overwriting the corrupt one. Watched intro (yawn).
3. Quit the game and created a backup of the new, clean My Games\DiRT 2 folder.
4. Copied all my original PB... folders back to the newly created My Games\DiRT 2 folder. Ran the game, which didn't complain about any corruption. So far so good, but the game is still at the beginning.
5. Copied half of the files from my Autosave0 folder to My Games\DiRT 2. Ran the game to check for corruption. If everything was OK, I copied in half of the remaining files and so on. If there were problems, I restored the clean data files created at step 3. The idea was just to go through a process of elimination to find the bad file.
6. In my case, only the file NXDSMWW was corrupt. All the others were fine.
7. By this stage, all of my original save data were back in My Games\DiRT 2 except for the NXDSMWW file. All my single player data was restored (tracks, cars, achievements etc.) and my multiplayer level was intact.
Job done . The only catch is that something must have been in that NXDSMWW file. Anyone have any ideas? I can't seem to see anything missing from my game, but then again I don't really have a great idea of what was there beforehand.
Hope this 'fix' works for all you guys out there too...
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