{steam} please help, savefile broken

My Steam-Savefile is broken - is there any way to restore it or regain
at least the monster memory? This is what happend:

When I exited the game (^X), I recieved a windows error message;
something like "was not able to write the complete savefile". To check
what might be lost, I restarted the game and loaded the one and only
savegame there was and should be. Everything looked fine, no error
messages on start, I had all my experience and inventory and everything
seemed just allright. So I closed again (^X). Now a new, slightly
different error message: "was not able to write savefile". Now there
were two "savefiles" in the folder, one named hehemehe (which is right)
and the other hehemehe.new. But neither of them can be loaded. It
always says "savefile broken".

I was playing on a memo stick, there was still enough free space left
on it, and it seems the stick is all right.
Has anybody an idea, what might have happend? Do I have to start a new
savegame?

Thanks for your help.

Hilke

In article <1155195841.754111.162050.DeleteThis@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>,
Hilke Reiter <hilkereiter.DeleteThis@web.de> wrote:
> My Steam-Savefile is broken - is there any way to restore it or regain
> at least the monster memory? This is what happend:

> When I exited the game (^X), I recieved a windows error message;
> something like "was not able to write the complete savefile". To check
> what might be lost, I restarted the game and loaded the one and only
> savegame there was and should be. Everything looked fine, no error
> messages on start, I had all my experience and inventory and everything
> seemed just allright. So I closed again (^X). Now a new, slightly
> different error message: "was not able to write savefile". Now there
> were two "savefiles" in the folder, one named hehemehe (which is right)
> and the other hehemehe.new. But neither of them can be loaded. It
> always says "savefile broken".

If it's broken that's it, it's unrecoverable.

> I was playing on a memo stick, there was still enough free space left
> on it, and it seems the stick is all right.
> Has anybody an idea, what might have happend?

What class were you playing? I've had this problem with rogues - it was
down to a bug in the program (reported) so I just don't play them.

>Do I have to start a new savegame?

Yes.

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Steve Clark

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