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Games for Windows Live, save game issues with Fallout 3

 

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PC users now get achievements and friends lists similar to how Xbox Live works. Here some cool things you can do with Games for Windows Live.

1. Earn achievements. You can create a free Games for Windows Live profile or link your Games for Windows Live profile to your existing Xbox Live profile. That’s right — you can earn Fallout 3 achievements twice, for both PC and Xbox 360. To link your Xbox Live profile, create a Games for Windows Live profile using your Live ID (ie, the email and login you used to link your Xbox Live profile to Live ID — that is, how you log onto xbox.com)

2. Once you link your Xbox Live profile, you’ll be able to see both your Games for Windows Live and Xbox Live friends together via the Games for Windows Live dash.

3. Question: Hey I was playing the game for a while, then logged onto my profile and my saves are gone? What happened?

Answer: Your saves are kept in specific directories tied to your profile. But don’t worry - you can go into your My Games folder and copy those saves over to your Profile’s save game directory.

For example, on my computer running Windows XP, under the Saves directory, I have two folders - Player1 and acheng. I can simply copy all the saves from Player1 to acheng, and I’m able to access them while logged on with my gamertag. On Windows XP, look in your My Documents\My Games\Fallout 3\Save folder. On Windows Vista, the path is C:\Users\{Username}\Documents\My Games\Fallout3\Saves.

For more troubleshooting tips, visit the Games for Windows Live technical support pages.

Posted by acheng on Monday, November 3rd, 2008 at 3:15 pm.

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14 Responses to “Games for Windows Live, save game issues with Fallout 3”

Thanks for that. I started playing without realising that I needed to log into GFWL. Now that I have logged in, if I copy my saved games over as you describe, will I still get the achievements that I would have earned as I played while not logged in?

Left by Buzzrick on November 3rd, 2008

i read that FO3 got 10 of 10 or gold or whatever. the vote shows that FO3 will played mostly on pc, like many other games. but i can’t find any report that bethesda will fix the massive crashissue ingame. :(
so why u deliver a game with such massive bugs. FO3 is just another Oblivion but contains the same problems which sould found in a over 2 years old game allready. we give u our hard earned money and get only a unfinished product.
i know, my comment will deleted soon, but i hope some of u bethesdapeople will read it an think about it.

Left by sisko on November 4th, 2008

Do we have to use Live?

We just bought the game for the 360, and I plan to buy it again if/when a modding tool comes out. I really don’t want to have to log into XBL to play PC games. It’s just more unnecessary steps for me.

Left by Blue_Meanie on November 4th, 2008

Buzzrick…I’m pretty sure you’ll need to go back.

Left by gstaff on November 4th, 2008

F***, f***, f***! I got excited about this getting achievements on ma XB playing PC game thing (I bought F3 PC because it’s half a price of XB :PP) so I tried it. Didn’t work. Why? There’s no freakin’ XBox Live or GfW Live in Poland, and because F3 is a third party title, they didn’t put registration key in a box of PL version. Doesn’t matter that I have XBL Gold membership or that I play F3 in English. Damn, I was gonna lough on my friend who has PS3, that I get XB achievements playin’ PC game…

Left by KRS on November 4th, 2008

Can we copy our G4WL saved game files and toss them in the (offline) game profile just in case I can’t get onto the Net and/or G4WL?

Left by MysterD on November 4th, 2008

So I’m with Buzzrick. I was playing all the time with some bogus account that was popping on my screen. Then I did the registration (something that I never did before) and lost the save games, found the “old” profile copy the saves, started to get achievements, but I’m missing a lot of them, it seems that they only count if I was logged as that user at the time of the event. Is it possible to do something, to update based on my current status? And not on if I was either connected or not at that time?

Left by Peter on November 5th, 2008

I have not been able to get the saved games to show up, I can see the gamertag name I use and all but when I load in to the game it never shows me a saved game, this is highly annoying as I just picked up the game and want to love it but right now its not giving me anything back. it has frozen my machine 3 times and when I have to close out I have no saves afterward.

Left by Ruka on November 7th, 2008

Bought Fallout 3 for PC and started playing without using G4WL, then a few days later logged in and started playing online. None of the achievements have been saved even while playing online. The achievements all say that nothing has been completed in the online profile. Shouldn’t it just be able to copy your offline game save into your online profile? This saving of 2 different games is confusing. Also I was thinking there would be some sort of multiplayer aspect to it. Seems like a waste of time so far using the online component.

Left by Matt on November 13th, 2008

Darn.Same here game locked up lost all saved games.If they think I’m going to start over there nuts.Got my cash 50 and 28 for the book.It sucks.

Left by david on November 13th, 2008

Seriously? I’ve been waiting so long for this game, it is amazing. as long as you like to play in 10min increments. The crash issue for the PC is ridiculous. I have downloaded the patch and that doesn’t work either. Did you test the game? I am incredibly let down.

Left by MiltNoph on November 18th, 2008

I’m having problems with GFWL.

When I connect to the service via Fallout 3, it said there’s an update I have to install. So I installed it.

After this was done, it presented the login screen again. After logging in, it says the Terms of Use have been updated and I need to accept it before I can continue. If I click on the button to view it, a browser window opens, but re-directs me to “http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/servicedisabled.htm”. And I can’t find anywhere to log in to my GFWL account via a website either.

This is quite annoying because now I can’t go to online mode. Anybody experience this as well ?

Left by Raymond on November 19th, 2008

(slightly less vulgar post than before)

I’m a soldier in Iraq. I bought this laptop specifically before I came over here to play fallout 3 on it. At one point I had some internet access, and logged my ‘offline’ GFWL account into my main account that linked it with my gears of war game. Ever since then, it won’t let me get to any of my save games WITHOUT logging in online.

1. Why the hell is it demanding I ‘verify’ what account I’m signing in with… for a single player game on my own computer?

2. I can’t play my games AT ALL when I don’t have internet (which is, Oh I dunno, 99% of the time out here)

3. I don’t care about achievements. Seriously, I don’t care. I just want to play my game.

Games for Windows Live is preventing me from playing the game. As such, games for windows live is WRONG, and I want to DELETE IT, REMOVE IT, BYPASS IT, OR JUST GET RID OF IT. Then I can set fire to where it used to be and dance around it while chanting to get rid of the foul spitis, I HATE IT THAT MUCH.

So please, please please please, tell me how to ‘trick’ fallout 3 into letting me play it without logging into windows live.

- sincerely

- One very pissed off soldier.

Left by R Patrician on November 26th, 2008

Got the answer from another site’s forums.

OKay, so once you log into Live, it sets your account as an ‘online’ account, and there’s no way to set it back to an ‘offline’ account. You need to ‘create new profile’, make sure you mark it as ‘offline account’. Then find your save games from the ‘online’ account and move them to offline account, and never touch the online account again.

Left by R Patrician on November 26th, 2008

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