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Posted February 04, 2010
When I save my game, I cannot overwrite previous saves. It gives me the warning about overwriting saved games, and I click OK and give it a name, but when I go back to the loading screen, the previous save has not been overwritten and my progress has been lost. This applies to normal save slots and the autosave.
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Posted February 24, 2012
FYI (to those who find the issue persists after trying the above); if you find indexing is already enabled and its still not working, disable it then re-enable it on the folder. This was the last piece I had to do to get the save games working.

System: Win7 64
Post edited February 24, 2012 by Fasckira
Posted February 25, 2012
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Fasckira: FYI (to those who find the issue persists after trying the above); if you find indexing is already enabled and its still not working, disable it then re-enable it on the folder. This was the last piece I had to do to get the save games working.

System: Win7 64
I find this interesting as it seems to be isolated to certain people. I've played the game dozens of times with both bought CD and GOG with XP Pro 32 bit, SP3 and didn't even know how to run as administrator and never had a save-game problem. Makes me think it might actually be more of a virus protection suite problem.
Posted February 25, 2012
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lordhoff: I find this interesting as it seems to be isolated to certain people. I've played the game dozens of times with both bought CD and GOG with XP Pro 32 bit, SP3 and didn't even know how to run as administrator and never had a save-game problem. Makes me think it might actually be more of a virus protection suite problem.
Im more inclined to believe its UAC related as it seems to be the Vista/7 lot who have the issue. If I could be bothered, I'd remove Vampire, disable UAC completely then try reinstalling as normal and see if the issue comes back at all.

Im disinclined to agree with it being the antivirus suite though, Ive checked through my program access logs (lists anything its blocked from running or trying to write to places it shouldn't) and I couldn't see anything listed.
Posted March 08, 2012
Antivirus? In a word: NO.

I had an issue with this myself, and what I noticed was that the save game folder was Read-Only. If the folder and all it's contents are read-only, of course you can't overwrite the files! That's the whole point of being read-only. You just have to disable the read-only on the properties menu. Of course if the read-only check is actually a box, then you will have to find another way to enable writing to the folder...
Posted March 17, 2012
I do not use the GOG version of the game but an old CD retail from way back before there was such a thing as WinXP :)

I too was flabbergasted to see that the d*mn game didn't allow me to save, even more stupefounded was I to discover that the simple tips here didn't work on XP Sp3, the save folder would revert back to read-only after unchecking the box. What cured the issue for me was running the game using Win98/Me compability mode in WinXP Sp3, hope this will fix the issue for others as it's quite annoying to have to manually delete saves.

I have no idea as to why the save folder before insisted on being a read-only folder, haven't encountered this behaviour before.

UPDATE: I did some more testing and could conclude that it was perhaps not down to running the program in compability mode that fixed it but rather allowing the save folder to be indexed by the indexing service (which should not do anyting as I have the service disabled). I run AVG 2012 anti virus. A mystery indeed...
Post edited March 18, 2012 by Scoo_
Posted September 22, 2012
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Senseiweasel: I can confirm that this fixes all the save game bugs (disappearing monsters and loot, inablility to overwrite etc) - unfortunately as it uses a totally different set of saved games you will be forced to restart.
It does fix all the issues, but you're wrong on having to start over. No need to worry about modified game files either.

Your pre-fix save games and settings are located in*:
C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Vampire The Masquerade - Redemption

You can copy the above path into your file explorer's location field. It will take you to the correct folder automagically.

Just copy the SaveGames folder and the masquerade.ini file to the installation folder*:
C:\Program Files (x86)\GOG.com\Vampire The Masquerade - Redemption

Now run the game as Administrator and it will behave correctly.

*assuming Win7 64bit and default installation options

EDIT: To clarify: I did not have to mess with the folder properties or change anything else. Just follow the above steps and save games will be overwritable and earlier saves (or starting over) will behave correctly.

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Fasckira: FYI (to those who find the issue persists after trying the above); if you find indexing is already enabled and its still not working, disable it then re-enable it on the folder. This was the last piece I had to do to get the save games working.

System: Win7 64
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lordhoff: I find this interesting as it seems to be isolated to certain people. I've played the game dozens of times with both bought CD and GOG with XP Pro 32 bit, SP3 and didn't even know how to run as administrator and never had a save-game problem. Makes me think it might actually be more of a virus protection suite problem.
The Windows 7 issues seem to be related to how VirtualStore works (it seems to be a Windows 7 feature, so it probably won't affect earlier versions of Windows). VirtualStore seems to redirect hard disk access to certain folders to a folder inside your user directory. VtM probably makes assumptions that are no longer correct with VirtualStore in place and goes wonky.

Enabling indexing on the game folder seems to solve the issues in older versions of Windows, but Windows 7 with VirtualStore requires running the game as Administrator (and moving the pre-fix save games) unless there is a way to disable it.
Post edited September 22, 2012 by alanp
Posted October 12, 2012
The only thing I can say is, "Screw this." I purchased this game from GOG as compatible with Windows 7 and am unable to overwrite saved games. In a game of this length, this is not acceptable! I'm just going to reinstall from my ancient old disks, add the 1.1 patch and play like normal.

Ridiculous...
Posted January 03, 2013
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jack828: I didn't buy this game on GOG but bought on an oldfashioned cd. It has been patched to version 1.1 and I'm running XP service pack 3. I've already tried the things suggested in this forum but I stil can't overwrite my savegames. For now I'll just delete all the oldest ones when I stop playing, that way I should be able to finish te game.
this was the most simple solution :)
the others didn't work.
Posted April 25, 2013
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getBent22: My game save folder is nowhere to be found : / I have checked all of the suggested areas so far, but every time i run the shortcut under admin, my saves disapear?
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Senseiweasel: I think I've figured this whole problem out - if you're not running as an administrator the game appears to be writing the saves into the actual game files; it doesn't even create the SaveGames folder. Once you set the game to run as administrator it creates the folder when you first begin a new game and then loads and saves them from there - this is why people's saves have apparently been disappearing after setting the game to run as admin.

I can confirm that this fixes all the save game bugs (disappearing monsters and loot, inablility to overwrite etc) - unfortunately as it uses a totally different set of saved games you will be forced to restart.

It's irritating, but thankfully I was only a couple of hours in, but I could see others giving up entirely because of this problem - perhaps it would be best if GOG attached a note to the game to make sure people ran the game as an administrator from the offset to avoid this problem.
how do I run the game as an administrator
Posted January 28, 2015
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getBent22: My game save folder is nowhere to be found : / I have checked all of the suggested areas so far, but every time i run the shortcut under admin, my saves disapear?
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Senseiweasel: I think I've figured this whole problem out - if you're not running as an administrator the game appears to be writing the saves into the actual game files; it doesn't even create the SaveGames folder. Once you set the game to run as administrator it creates the folder when you first begin a new game and then loads and saves them from there - this is why people's saves have apparently been disappearing after setting the game to run as admin.

I can confirm that this fixes all the save game bugs (disappearing monsters and loot, inablility to overwrite etc) - unfortunately as it uses a totally different set of saved games you will be forced to restart.

It's irritating, but thankfully I was only a couple of hours in, but I could see others giving up entirely because of this problem - perhaps it would be best if GOG attached a note to the game to make sure people ran the game as an administrator from the offset to avoid this problem.
I got mine working under Windows 7 64-bit by: right-click game icon, switch to compatibility tab, select/set run this program in compatibility mode for windows xp (service pack 3), privilege level -> run this program as an administrator, then (within windows explorer), right click on base folder of game (e.g. c:\GOG Games\Vampire The Masquerade – Redemption) and turn indexing service back on under properties->advanced (i.e. allow files in this folder to have contents indexed in addition to file properties). I was then able to overwrite saved games (although at first it seemed I had to save the game twice BEFORE it fully overwrote, although that issue seems to have disappeared now). Also: Vampire the Masquerade Redemption Review
Post edited January 28, 2015 by anubis77
Posted January 29, 2015
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Senseiweasel: I think I've figured this whole problem out - if you're not running as an administrator the game appears to be writing the saves into the actual game files; it doesn't even create the SaveGames folder. Once you set the game to run as administrator it creates the folder when you first begin a new game and then loads and saves them from there - this is why people's saves have apparently been disappearing after setting the game to run as admin.

I can confirm that this fixes all the save game bugs (disappearing monsters and loot, inablility to overwrite etc) - unfortunately as it uses a totally different set of saved games you will be forced to restart.

It's irritating, but thankfully I was only a couple of hours in, but I could see others giving up entirely because of this problem - perhaps it would be best if GOG attached a note to the game to make sure people ran the game as an administrator from the offset to avoid this problem.
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deathlyshad: how do I run the game as an administrator
Right click on the icon that opens the game and open, "run as administrator".
Posted June 02, 2015
I can´t save in windows 8.1
Posted June 02, 2015
If you have an antivirus, it could be running the game in sandbox mode or other limited function.
Posted April 20, 2019
4 years later, still not working correctly on windows 7 64bit. Neither running as admin nor changing the directory permissions helps.

So I resolved to saving on new slots and removing older saves. But since there are only so few of the slots, I don't save as often as I normally would. As it happens, my character dies after 15 minutes of playing, due to clunky interface (I could swear this game played a lot more comfortable when I played it nearly 20 years ago), my last save is before the start of the dungeon, autosave doesn't work of course. Ragequit.
Posted May 25, 2019
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cyberkiller: 4 years later, still not working correctly on windows 7 64bit. Neither running as admin nor changing the directory permissions helps.

So I resolved to saving on new slots and removing older saves. But since there are only so few of the slots, I don't save as often as I normally would. As it happens, my character dies after 15 minutes of playing, due to clunky interface (I could swear this game played a lot more comfortable when I played it nearly 20 years ago), my last save is before the start of the dungeon, autosave doesn't work of course. Ragequit.
I have all of these things to look forward to!
(Win7 x64, with UP v.10.2)
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