Elden Ring updated itself via Steam and now the only option I have is
"New Game" even though my save files are there. I try to move the
cursor and the game quits and crashes.
The new update forced me to play on-line and had all of these
agreements to continue. I declined them, and was able to switch my
choice in the settings to play offline but I can no longer play the
game.
On Sat, 03 Sep 2022 15:12:28 -0600, PW
<iamnotusingonewithAgent@notinuse.com> wrote:
Elden Ring updated itself via Steam and now the only option I have is
"New Game" even though my save files are there. I try to move the
cursor and the game quits and crashes.
Dontcha hate when that happens?
The new update forced me to play on-line and had all of these
agreements to continue. I declined them, and was able to switch my
choice in the settings to play offline but I can no longer play the
game.
Maybe take a look at this before giving up. It's an older post (from
six months ago) but sounds similar to your experience. I haven't
followed any of the links but maybe it will be a good starting point
to solve the issue.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/t53n81/unable_to_load_save_file_after_recent_update/
Time to move on to another game.
I wanted an excuse to do that and even though I did want to move on >eventually, mostly to have something to contribute to Spalls thread
here "What gave you been playing last month".
Elden Ring updated itself via Steam and now the only option I have is
"New Game" even though my save files are there. I try to move the
cursor and the game quits and crashes.
The new update forced me to play on-line and had all of these
agreements to continue. I declined them, and was able to switch my
choice in the settings to play offline but I can no longer play the
game.
Of course, I will NEVER buy a game from FROMSOFT and whomenver else
they are associated with again after wastiing a big time of my spare
time over the last year!
Sorry to complain, but that is the plain truth!
-pw
Time to move on to another game.
I wanted an excuse to do that and even though I did want to move on eventually, mostly to have something to contribute to Spalls thread
here "What gave you been playing last month".
Elden Ring updated itself via Steam and now the only option I have is
"New Game" even though my save files are there. I try to move the
cursor and the game quits and crashes.
The new update forced me to play on-line and had all of these
agreements to continue. I declined them, and was able to switch my
choice in the settings to play offline but I can no longer play the
game.
Of course, I will NEVER buy a game from FROMSOFT and whomenver else
they are associated with again after wastiing a big time of my spare
time over the last year!
Sorry to complain, but that is the plain truth!
On Sat, 03 Sep 2022 18:16:32 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, 03 Sep 2022 15:12:28 -0600, PW
<iamnotusing...@notinuse.com> wrote:
Elden Ring updated itself via Steam and now the only option I have is >>"New Game" even though my save files are there. I try to move the
cursor and the game quits and crashes.
Dontcha hate when that happens?
The new update forced me to play on-line and had all of these
agreements to continue. I declined them, and was able to switch my
choice in the settings to play offline but I can no longer play the
game.
Maybe take a look at this before giving up. It's an older post (from
six months ago) but sounds similar to your experience. I haven't
followed any of the links but maybe it will be a good starting point
to solve the issue.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/t53n81/unable_to_load_save_file_after_recent_update/*--
I just did that a couple of times (validate game files). The first
time it said everything was 100%. 2nd time, it stopped doing it.
I select Browse the local game files and everything is there.
I am going to uninstall it and reinstall it some day. The thing is, I
play with a mouse and keyboard, not a controller, so it took me a very
long time to get my configurartion just right to get this far.
Thanks!
-pw
On 03/09/2022 22:12, PW wrote:
Time to move on to another game.
I wanted an excuse to do that and even though I did want to move on
eventually, mostly to have something to contribute to Spalls thread
here "What gave you been playing last month".
Elden Ring updated itself via Steam and now the only option I have is
"New Game" even though my save files are there. I try to move the
cursor and the game quits and crashes.
The new update forced me to play on-line and had all of these
agreements to continue. I declined them, and was able to switch my
choice in the settings to play offline but I can no longer play the
game.
Of course, I will NEVER buy a game from FROMSOFT and whomenver else
they are associated with again after wastiing a big time of my spare
time over the last year!
Sorry to complain, but that is the plain truth!
It's probaly worth creating a thread on the Steam forum to see if
anybody can help out. Just to add, having a quite scan I didn't see
anyone raising the issue so it sounds like it your installation problem
not a game problem as such.
On Saturday, September 3, 2022 at 8:04:17 PM UTC-7, PW wrote:
On Sat, 03 Sep 2022 18:16:32 -0400, Spalls Hurgenson
<spallsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sat, 03 Sep 2022 15:12:28 -0600, PW*--
<iamnotusing...@notinuse.com> wrote:
Elden Ring updated itself via Steam and now the only option I have is
"New Game" even though my save files are there. I try to move the
cursor and the game quits and crashes.
Dontcha hate when that happens?
The new update forced me to play on-line and had all of these
agreements to continue. I declined them, and was able to switch my
choice in the settings to play offline but I can no longer play the
game.
Maybe take a look at this before giving up. It's an older post (from
six months ago) but sounds similar to your experience. I haven't
followed any of the links but maybe it will be a good starting point
to solve the issue.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Eldenring/comments/t53n81/unable_to_load_save_file_after_recent_update/
I just did that a couple of times (validate game files). The first
time it said everything was 100%. 2nd time, it stopped doing it.
I select Browse the local game files and everything is there.
I am going to uninstall it and reinstall it some day. The thing is, I
play with a mouse and keyboard, not a controller, so it took me a very
long time to get my configurartion just right to get this far.
Thanks!
-pw
Sorry to hear that PW. Yeah I don't have anything to add. Make sure you
back up your save file. Uninstall, make sure the folders are deleted, and >reinstall when you feel like it. If you get the game working and the
save doesn't you can probabl
Sorry to hear that PW. Yeah I don't have anything to add. Make sure you
back up your save file. Uninstall, make sure the folders are deleted, and >reinstall when you feel like it. If you get the game working and the
save doesn't you can probably get a save from someone with most
of the progress you had. It's not the same, I know, and I'd probably
just start over or never play if that happened.
- Justisaur
Sorry to hear that PW. Yeah I don't have anything to add. Make sure you >back up your save file. Uninstall, make sure the folders are deleted, and >reinstall when you feel like it. If you get the game working and the
save doesn't you can probably get a save from someone with most
of the progress you had. It's not the same, I know, and I'd probably
just start over or never play if that happened.
- Justisaur*--
Here is what worked. I uninstalled it within Steam, restored. Started
up the game. Only option was New Game. Uninstalled it again,
restored, then I got the option to continue a game. I had to
redownload, copy my save game file in.
Next, I was going to use Revo Uninstaller to do a complete uninstall
of ER, redownload the game, restore and try that but I didn't have to.
I did just that Justisaur and am back in business!
Of course, I will NEVER buy a game from FROMSOFT and whomenver else
they are associated with again after wastiing a big time of my spare
time over the last year!
Sorry to complain, but that is the plain truth!
Am 03.09.22 um 23:12 schrieb PW:
Of course, I will NEVER buy a game from FROMSOFT and whomenver else
they are associated with again after wastiing a big time of my spare
time over the last year!
Sorry to complain, but that is the plain truth!
Ouch, I really feel sorry for you, that must hurt.
I had it worse in the early 90s when I was working actively on a
university project and my filesystem went haywire (fat back then oh joy).
I can remember spending days on a sector scanning program to restore the
code on sector level.
I could recover 95% of the code and wrap up the assignment.
But that really hurt and the only time when I literally started to cry
in my early 20s.
And that's when you learned about the importance of back-ups;-)Indeed, I now have a private raid nas at home for everything which is
(Because that sort of story is how/everyone/ learns about the
importance of back-ups. I don't think anyone has started using a
back-up -beyond it being forced on them by some outside agency-
/without/ a story like that.)
But I feel your pain. If I could afford it - both in terms of space as
well as cost - I'd use RAID6 for everything and have redundant backups
for that. The frustration of losing data is agonizing... especially
since you never notice its lost until you absolutely, positively must
have it now.
I did just that Justisaur and am back in business!
Good to hear, I think it's worth finishing :)
rms
On Sunday, September 4, 2022 at 1:40:58 PM UTC-7, PW wrote:
*--
Sorry to hear that PW. Yeah I don't have anything to add. Make sure you
back up your save file. Uninstall, make sure the folders are deleted, and >> >reinstall when you feel like it. If you get the game working and the
save doesn't you can probably get a save from someone with most
of the progress you had. It's not the same, I know, and I'd probably
just start over or never play if that happened.
- Justisaur
Here is what worked. I uninstalled it within Steam, restored. Started
up the game. Only option was New Game. Uninstalled it again,
restored, then I got the option to continue a game. I had to
redownload, copy my save game file in.
Next, I was going to use Revo Uninstaller to do a complete uninstall
of ER, redownload the game, restore and try that but I didn't have to.
Glad to hear it worked! Glad you were making backups often, I'm not
great at that myself. I've read a lot of horror stories on DS3 forums
about saves/game being corrupted, so I've got a few at least. They
really ought to build a backup system into the games. Blue Sentinel
did backups when it was working for DS3.
I've pretty much given up on DS3 again as the PVP cheating is rampant,
Blue Sentinel doesn't work with the update, and the maker of it said
it's going to be a long time, if ever, they get around to making it work. I'm >almost tempted to get a PlayStation so I can play it without all (most?)
of the cheaters, and still play Co-op/PVP. Either that or see if there's >some way to emulate one and play online (doubtful.)
- Justisaur
Am 03.09.22 um 23:12 schrieb PW:
Of course, I will NEVER buy a game from FROMSOFT and whomenver else
they are associated with again after wastiing a big time of my spare
time over the last year!
Sorry to complain, but that is the plain truth!
Ouch, I really feel sorry for you, that must hurt.
I had it worse in the early 90s when I was working actively on a
university project and my filesystem went haywire (fat back then oh joy).
I can remember spending days on a sector scanning program to restore the
code on sector level.
I could recover 95% of the code and wrap up the assignment.
But that really hurt and the only time when I literally started to cry
in my early 20s.
On Mon, 5 Sep 2022 07:14:03 -0700 (PDT), Justisaur
<just...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Sunday, September 4, 2022 at 1:40:58 PM UTC-7, PW wrote:
*--
Sorry to hear that PW. Yeah I don't have anything to add. Make sure you >> >back up your save file. Uninstall, make sure the folders are deleted, and >> >reinstall when you feel like it. If you get the game working and the
save doesn't you can probably get a save from someone with most
of the progress you had. It's not the same, I know, and I'd probably
just start over or never play if that happened.
- Justisaur
Here is what worked. I uninstalled it within Steam, restored. Started
up the game. Only option was New Game. Uninstalled it again,
restored, then I got the option to continue a game. I had to
redownload, copy my save game file in.
Next, I was going to use Revo Uninstaller to do a complete uninstall
of ER, redownload the game, restore and try that but I didn't have to.
Glad to hear it worked! Glad you were making backups often, I'm not
great at that myself. I've read a lot of horror stories on DS3 forums
about saves/game being corrupted, so I've got a few at least. They
really ought to build a backup system into the games. Blue Sentinel
did backups when it was working for DS3.
I've pretty much given up on DS3 again as the PVP cheating is rampant,
Blue Sentinel doesn't work with the update, and the maker of it said
it's going to be a long time, if ever, they get around to making it work. I'm
almost tempted to get a PlayStation so I can play it without all (most?)
of the cheaters, and still play Co-op/PVP. Either that or see if there's >some way to emulate one and play online (doubtful.)
- Justisaur*---
I remember you saying that afer playing Cyberpunk that the Dark Souls
games were looking pretty bad.
I think the graphics in ER are impressive but also think they are
washed out (especially when compared to God of War), and DS3's
graphics are worst. DS: Prepare To Die look about as bad to me as the original Castle Wolfenstein! :-)
But, I also remember that you had an old graphics card when playing
DS3 and maybe ER that looked terrible and also caused CTDs a lot.
I'm not much of a visuals guy, I'll take game play over visuals every day,
I play and enjoy a lot of 8-bit indy games. I do enjoy better visuals, but >it doesn't really move the needle on if I like a game. Bad art direction, >especially cartoony turns me off though - like WoW.
- Justisaur
I have a 3060 Ti now, Cyberpunk looks amazing, but the city is a shithole,
so most of it looks like a shithole, which defeats the great graphics, but >there's bits that look great. ER looks... o.k. I guess, occasional great >looking things, the area it starts you off in is good, unfortunately I played >that area mostly with my old card. DS3 looks pretty bad, mostly vegetation >that gets me, but got used to it pretty quick.
I did play DS 1 remaster a little before the servers went down, and before
I had the 3060 Ti, but the graphics were still maxed out as it's pretty old. >I'm not sure if it was an improvement over the previous version, it looks >more cartoony than the Prepare to Die edition.
I'm not much of a visuals guy, I'll take game play over visuals every day,
I play and enjoy a lot of 8-bit indy games. I do enjoy better visuals, but >it doesn't really move the needle on if I like a game. Bad art direction, >especially cartoony turns me off though - like WoW.
- Justisaur
On Tue, 6 Sep 2022 11:12:07 +0200, "Werner P." <werpu@gmx.at> wrote:
Am 03.09.22 um 23:12 schrieb PW:
Of course, I will NEVER buy a game from FROMSOFT and whomenver else
they are associated with again after wastiing a big time of my spare
time over the last year!
Sorry to complain, but that is the plain truth!
Ouch, I really feel sorry for you, that must hurt.
I had it worse in the early 90s when I was working actively on a
university project and my filesystem went haywire (fat back then oh joy).
I can remember spending days on a sector scanning program to restore the >>code on sector level.
I could recover 95% of the code and wrap up the assignment.
But that really hurt and the only time when I literally started to cry
in my early 20s.
And that's when you learned about the importance of back-ups ;-)
(Because that sort of story is how /everyone/ learns about the
importance of back-ups. I don't think anyone has started using a
back-up -beyond it being forced on them by some outside agency-
/without/ a story like that.)
But I feel your pain. If I could afford it - both in terms of space as
well as cost - I'd use RAID6 for everything and have redundant backups
for that. The frustration of losing data is agonizing... especially
since you never notice its lost until you absolutely, positively must
have it now.
nd maybe ER that looked terrible and also caused CTDs a lot.
I have a 3060 Ti now, Cyberpunk looks amazing, but the city is a shithole, >so most of it looks like a shithole, which defeats the great graphics, but >there's bits that look great. ER looks... o.k. I guess, occasional great >looking things, the area it starts you off in is good, unfortunately I played
that area mostly with my old card. DS3 looks pretty bad, mostly vegetation >that gets me, but got used to it pretty quick.
I did play DS 1 remaster a little before the servers went down, and before >I had the 3060 Ti, but the graphics were still maxed out as it's pretty old. >I'm not sure if it was an improvement over the previous version, it looks >more cartoony than the Prepare to Die edition.
I'm not much of a visuals guy, I'll take game play over visuals every day, >I play and enjoy a lot of 8-bit indy games. I do enjoy better visuals, but >it doesn't really move the needle on if I like a game. Bad art direction, >especially cartoony turns me off though - like WoW.
- Justisaur*--
Then maybe "board" games are for you :-)
I can't stand these Japanese or whatever cartoony graphics or anything
like it. And all "modern" (for the last two or three centuries! {-))
cartoon type graphics.
Manja art, or the stuff that looks like anything like it. It has
taken over the graphics industry and I hate the stuff.
I'm not much of a visuals guy, I'll take game play over visuals every day, >I play and enjoy a lot of 8-bit indy games. I do enjoy better visuals, but >it doesn't really move the needle on if I like a game. Bad art direction, >especially cartoony turns me off though - like WoW.
- Justisaur*--
Well, I thought I would get out of my shell and try some on-line
gaming. The two dudes in the latest PC Gamer gave HUNT: Showdown #6
of thier Top 100 so I thought I would try it. Well, speaking of
graphics, I have not tried playing it on-line but only a couple of
training scenerios. I think the graphics look worse than the Deer
Hunter series in the early 90s did.
I also thought I would try "Teardown" to see what that is all about.
The graphics look NOTHING like the Steam screenshots. They look worse
than the original MineCraft as far as I am concerned. And I got sick
of running around with a chainsaw with no clue what to do. I thought
it was about taking down buildings like you see companies do around
various cities. That seems like something that requires brain power
and lots of planning I sort of wish I chose to become some sort of
Engineer or Architect.
I am not going to spend another minute of my time trying to figure out
that game!
I used to love board games as a kid, but when I started playing with my kids, even some of the games I loved, I found they didn't live up to the nostalgia, and I didn't really care for any of them. I even got to play Talisman with my
friends a few years back and it didn't live up to my memories in my 20's either.
On 08/09/2022 23:04, Justisaur wrote:
I used to love board games as a kid, but when I started playing with my kids,
even some of the games I loved, I found they didn't live up to the nostalgia,
and I didn't really care for any of them. I even got to play Talisman with my
friends a few years back and it didn't live up to my memories in my 20's
either.
I used to play a lot of boardgames but now it's just PC ports vs. the AI >which although I enjoy it obviously lacks the social element. It's one
of those things I would like to get back into but there's always that
problem of finding a group of people to play with that you also want to
play with!
On Fri, 9 Sep 2022 10:33:50 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
On 08/09/2022 23:04, Justisaur wrote:
I used to love board games as a kid, but when I started playing with my kids,
even some of the games I loved, I found they didn't live up to the nostalgia,
and I didn't really care for any of them. I even got to play Talisman with my
friends a few years back and it didn't live up to my memories in my 20's >>> either.
I used to play a lot of boardgames but now it's just PC ports vs. the AI
which although I enjoy it obviously lacks the social element. It's one
of those things I would like to get back into but there's always that
problem of finding a group of people to play with that you also want to
play with!
*-
Well JAB, I think we have about 8 hours or more difference! Maybe we
can play by mail. Do people still do that?
On 11/09/2022 05:06, PW wrote:
On Fri, 9 Sep 2022 10:33:50 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
On 08/09/2022 23:04, Justisaur wrote:
I used to love board games as a kid, but when I started playing with my kids,
even some of the games I loved, I found they didn't live up to the nostalgia,
and I didn't really care for any of them. I even got to play Talisman with my
friends a few years back and it didn't live up to my memories in my 20's >>>> either.
I used to play a lot of boardgames but now it's just PC ports vs. the AI >>> which although I enjoy it obviously lacks the social element. It's one
of those things I would like to get back into but there's always that
problem of finding a group of people to play with that you also want to
play with!
*-
Well JAB, I think we have about 8 hours or more difference! Maybe we
can play by mail. Do people still do that?
They certainly do and I've done it myself. Obviously pretty much
everything has now moved to PBEM or even a dedicated server app. It's
does get around the problem of finding other players and overall I've
had a good experience with it but I did have one very bad one with
Combat Mission:II. I had never really tried it before so I was more than >happy to let the other player set-up the game. A big mistake as they
pretty much gamed it so that I as the Russians were at a sever
disadvantage and it was only about halfway through I realised what was
going on.
Generally though, whether it's good kinda depends on what game it is in >particular there's lots of board games now that are quite fast paced so
They don't really work. One oddity I've found is Diplomacy as because,
as the name implies, diplomacy between players is really important and
only having two or three turns a week really gives you the time to make
plans with other players.
As an aside a PBM (yes the one that involves pieces of paper and stamps)
I played when I was much younger, It's A Crime, is still going though it
is now as you may expect PBEM.
Interesting. Combat Mission 2 sounds familiar.
Thanks.
On 12/09/2022 03:49, PW wrote:
Interesting. Combat Mission 2 sounds familiar.
Thanks.
It's looking a bit long in the tooth now (the graphics weren't even very
good to start with) but they are still good games as an example of
instead recreating a tabletop wargame they use the abilities of a PC. So
it's set at the tactical level (squads/individual vehicles), you issue
your orders, each lasts a minute, on a 3d map and then it uses WEGO to >resolve them.
On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 09:09:40 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
On 12/09/2022 03:49, PW wrote:
Interesting. Combat Mission 2 sounds familiar.
Thanks.
It's looking a bit long in the tooth now (the graphics weren't even very
good to start with) but they are still good games as an example of
instead recreating a tabletop wargame they use the abilities of a PC. So
it's set at the tactical level (squads/individual vehicles), you issue
your orders, each lasts a minute, on a 3d map and then it uses WEGO to
resolve them.
Oh man, Combat Mission 2... that takes me back. Those were such fun
games. Fairly unique (for their time) with their large maps and 3D
assets; this was the era of sprite-based RTS games with tiny maps, and
having a combat zone that could include several scale-accurate
villages was really impressive. It was - considering its depth - a
fairly streamlined game too; in many ways, it felt like playing X-Com
(the original), except with a lot more options.
Games like "Combat Mission", "Close Combat" and "Panzer General"
really pushed traditional wargames away from the old 'push-tiles-across-the-board' style and into a more immersive format
that was more immersive and palatable to the general public.
Unfortunately, they got caught up in the great RTS-crash of the late
2000s (probably helped by the increasing pre-eminence of consoles,
which are a poor platform for that style of game) and the genre is
only starting to make a comeback.
On 12/09/2022 03:49, PW wrote:
Interesting. Combat Mission 2 sounds familiar.
Thanks.
It's looking a bit long in the tooth now (the graphics weren't even very
good to start with) but they are still good games as an example of
instead recreating a tabletop wargame they use the abilities of a PC. So
it's set at the tactical level (squads/individual vehicles), you issue
your orders, each lasts a minute, on a 3d map and then it uses WEGO to >resolve them.
One of the biggest issues I found with it is the AI. It's fine on the
defence but in the attack role, well the less said the better. Saying
that, it's a pretty common problem with wargames especially tactical
level ones.
The are much newer versions of it (although in the Normandy theatre) but >unfortunately they've gone down the route of slicing what would have
been a base game into base game + DLC's. For what I want that comes in
at $110, which isn't cheap.
On Mon, 12 Sep 2022 09:09:40 +0100, JAB <noway@nochance.com> wrote:
On 12/09/2022 03:49, PW wrote:
Interesting. Combat Mission 2 sounds familiar.
Thanks.
It's looking a bit long in the tooth now (the graphics weren't even very >>good to start with) but they are still good games as an example of
instead recreating a tabletop wargame they use the abilities of a PC. So >>it's set at the tactical level (squads/individual vehicles), you issue
your orders, each lasts a minute, on a 3d map and then it uses WEGO to >>resolve them.
Oh man, Combat Mission 2... that takes me back. Those were such fun
games. Fairly unique (for their time) with their large maps and 3D
assets; this was the era of sprite-based RTS games with tiny maps, and
having a combat zone that could include several scale-accurate
villages was really impressive. It was - considering its depth - a
fairly streamlined game too; in many ways, it felt like playing X-Com
(the original), except with a lot more options.
Games like "Combat Mission", "Close Combat" and "Panzer General"
really pushed traditional wargames away from the old >'push-tiles-across-the-board' style and into a more immersive format
that was more immersive and palatable to the general public.
Unfortunately, they got caught up in the great RTS-crash of the late
2000s (probably helped by the increasing pre-eminence of consoles,
which are a poor platform for that style of game) and the genre is
only starting to make a comeback.
Was Combat Mission 2 ever an Avalon Hill board games? I am visioning
the cover of one war game.
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