cant save games FM2005

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in my 5th season

i can load my saved game and it runs fine but when i go to save it i
get a error message saying cant save the game. I have even tried going
back to old saves and the same thing happens.

any ideas?

Cheers

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Michael Murray wrote:
> shed wrote:
>
>>in my 5th season
>>
>> i can load my saved game and it runs fine but when i go to save it i
>>get a error message saying cant save the game. I have even tried going
>>back to old saves and the same thing happens.
>>
>>any ideas?
>>
>>Cheers
>
>
> What kind of error message is it?
> Do you have enough hard drive space (if you are using the default save
> place, it will be saving games in the My Documents folder, if you haven't
> got enough room here, move the entire SI folder to a partition that does
> have enough space). If that doesn't work, have you applied the patch?,
> defrag your hard drive, or if you can load up your save game in a different
> computer and see if it'll save then, if not then your save game is corrupt
> or your game is.
>
>
cheers.. got 31 gigs left, it comes up as an error message on windows
not the game " cant load saved game" or something along these lines.. I
started a new game and it stil wont save either

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Michael Murray wrote:
> shed wrote:
>
>>Michael Murray wrote:
>>
>>>shed wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>in my 5th season
>>>>
>>>>i can load my saved game and it runs fine but when i go to save it i
>>>>get a error message saying cant save the game. I have even tried
>>>>going back to old saves and the same thing happens.
>>>>
>>>>any ideas?
>>>>
>>>>Cheers
>>>
>>>
>>>What kind of error message is it?
>>>Do you have enough hard drive space (if you are using the default
>>>save place, it will be saving games in the My Documents folder, if
>>>you haven't got enough room here, move the entire SI folder to a
>>>partition that does have enough space). If that doesn't work, have
>>>you applied the patch?, defrag your hard drive, or if you can load
>>>up your save game in a different computer and see if it'll save
>>>then, if not then your save game is corrupt or your game is.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>cheers.. got 31 gigs left, it comes up as an error message on windows
>>not the game " cant load saved game" or something along these lines..
>>I started a new game and it stil wont save either
>
>
> Try uninstalling and reinstalling FM elsewhere (change the save location as
> well), might be a bad bit of your hard drive, try running diskcheck/scandisk
> to see if your hard drive has any errors (WinXP - My computer - right click
> on hard drive - properties - tools tab - error checking - tick the boxes
> marked automatically fix... and scan for ... click start and wait (might
> need to finish when you next reboot due to locked files.)
>
>
thanks it worked a treat