Hi FONV Community

I recently formatted my PC and thus I moved my saved games to an external HD and back to the PC once I had FONV installed.
However both my autosave and quicksave files are now corrupt, which is a real shame since its about 6 hours played back that I made my last prober save.
To the point:
I was wondering wether or not this is a known issue and/or if there is a way to restore the files.

Also I found that the quicksave and autosave files had a copy of them of some sort with the extension ".bak" maybe that can help.
I know that there is probarbly no way to restore the files, but I had to try and ask here to put my mind at ease

Anyways, thanks in advance for your answers

EDIT: Yes, I did try to search on the topic but did not find anything that could help, my search-fu is weak today I guess

Oh man that automatic flood control thing is great. If it hadn't made me wait 60 seconds before responding I would have said something REALLY snarky about there being a thread on this very subject at the top of the forum at this very moment. :ahhh:

But to be serious- no I'm sorry there currently is no way to recover a corrupt save file. Those .bak files might be workable though. You just need to rename them to "something.fos" where "something" can be anything convenient that isn't already in use. When this problem happens to me (and it has, sadly) I usually go with "pleaseworkpleasework.fos" or "mysoulformysavegame.fos" or the like. It never really helps, but sometimes you get lucky and the backups aren't corrupt.

The reason the backups usually ARE corrupt is that the malformed data that corrupts the save games is intrudocued while you're playing but does not crash the game. Autosaves are overwritten as soon as you wait or enter a new area, so the backups of those are usually only seconds older and not likely to escape the evil data of game-ruining. The only real chance is that you didn't quicksave often enough for your quicksave backup to have also been made after whatever gremlin that was let in by some prankster at obsidian decided to pee all over your data.

Thanks for the great reply man, going to try the .bak when I get home and if it dosent work i'll just wait a week or two to get my FONV juices flowing enough to play through the same 6 hours again (>_<)

OH MY GOD

I just tried renaming the .bak files and it worked!!

Thank you soo much for that piece of advice, wish I could give you like, +rep or something

Heh well from the rest of us in similar situations where that didn't work...

You lucky bastard