Posted August 30, 2024
So today my friend gifted me a code for Lego lord of the rings that he got from Prime gaming. I redeemed the code, downloaded the game and installed it via the separate installer. I personally don't really like gog galaxy I'm more used to downloading games traditionally and making backups on my CDs and such. I installed the game and booted it up. Now one thing I want to make clear as shameful as it is when I was a teenager I pirated a version of the game from some random repack site. I believe the version I got was the gog one but I could be wrong, they usually reupload gog installers I think. Saving worked fine then. I got up to the bit at the inn, which is like the third level I wanna say, saved and shortly after uninstalled the game to download another one. So you'd be as surprised as I was when I started the game today and saw the save was poofed out of existence. I figured I must've deleted it when I uninstalled the game. I start a new one, beat the prologue and left to do something else irl. When I came back to continue the title screen for when you boot the game for the first time played and when I went to load the save it was empty! I never had this issue with the game before, not on console or other PCs and on other PCs my family tended to usually get pirated copies of pc games anyway, cause we didn't yet have a way to purchase games online or physically since we live in Serbia and like only now have a way to pay for stuff thanks to PayPal, and we would install and uninstall them over and over and it always worked fine. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the game and it still didn't work. I heard people had the same issue on the steam version too but I figured that's just steam cloud being weird, but like I'm not using any kind of cloud saving thing. Idk if anyone knows what's up lemme know, I wanna grind the game again getting mythril and stuff it's been forever since I played it.
[SOLUTION]
Open up file explorer. Go to "C:\Users\[Insert username here]\AppData\Roaming\Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment" and delete the folder named "LEGO The Lord of the Rings". The game will then make a new folder in the same location and the game should work! WARNING THIS ACTION WILL DELETE YOUR SETTINGS AND SAVE DATA. IF YOU MUST, MAKE A BACKUP OF THE FOLDER AND PUT THE SAVE IN THE NEW ONE. THE SAVES SHOULD BE LOCATED IN THE FOLDER "savedgames" AND THERE SHOULD BE A FOLDER WITH THE NAME "slot1" OR "slot2" AND SO ON. THATS YOUR SAVE FOLDER. You can try and return the backup of the save back into the original to see if it still works. As for if it does or not I'm not sure.
As Gandalf himself once said "Keep it secret, keep it safe."
[SOLUTION]
Open up file explorer. Go to "C:\Users\[Insert username here]\AppData\Roaming\Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment" and delete the folder named "LEGO The Lord of the Rings". The game will then make a new folder in the same location and the game should work! WARNING THIS ACTION WILL DELETE YOUR SETTINGS AND SAVE DATA. IF YOU MUST, MAKE A BACKUP OF THE FOLDER AND PUT THE SAVE IN THE NEW ONE. THE SAVES SHOULD BE LOCATED IN THE FOLDER "savedgames" AND THERE SHOULD BE A FOLDER WITH THE NAME "slot1" OR "slot2" AND SO ON. THATS YOUR SAVE FOLDER. You can try and return the backup of the save back into the original to see if it still works. As for if it does or not I'm not sure.
As Gandalf himself once said "Keep it secret, keep it safe."
Post edited August 30, 2024 by Dorfde
This question / problem has been solved by mk47at