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Article #697928Re: Moved Steam and GOG to Win10 from Win7 (dual boot) and games are listed but not game files
From: PW
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 04:28
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 04:28
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On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 03:16:55 +0000 (UTC), rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) wrote: ><noemail...@noaddress.com> wrote: >>Steam in Win10 says I am 52 hours into Skyrim but the load a game >>option is disabled. Only start a new game is enabled. I am afraid to >>do that. > >Skyrim puts its save game files in: > > C:\Users\<yourname>\Documents\My Games\Skyrim\Saves > >where <yourname> is your user name on Windows. So find that directory >on your Windows 7 drive and copy everything it to the location above on >your Windows 10 drive. It'll probaby easier if you boot into Windows 10, >search through all your drives until you find Windows 7 save files and >then copy the files to directory named above. *--- That worked too! I just had to figure out what Win10 renamed my drives to (J = Win7 C). > >>GOG: Installed GOG Galaxy but although all my games are listed, GOG >>is downloading them all and I have to start a new game (such as >>Witcher 3) also. For some stupid reason (probably due to curiosity) I >>started a new game and that is just what happened. I have to go >>through training all over again. I know I was way into it. >> >>Where are my save games? > >For Witcher 3 they're stored in: > > C:\Users\<yourname>\Documents\The Witcher 3 > >You can copy them over the same with as with Skyrim. > >Other game may store their save files in other places. You can try >using Google to find out where. > > Ross Ridge *--- Worked!!! Thanks Ross! You saved me a bunch of more time Googling only to find nothing. Now onto Doom! -paul -pw
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