My computer crashed (are my past 3 hours of gameplay lost?) | Forums

[ctregear]

After having lots of issues getting Assassin's Creed to work last night I got a couple of hours in.

I started playing again this morning and after a while the game crashed. When I went back in I was upto the correct place.

2 or so hours later I decided to take a break, so I went to the menu and quit to Windows. 15 minutes later when I reentered the game I'd lost the past 2 hours of gameplay and the game was back to where it had crashed early. I screamed, yelled and in the end just decided to suck it up and play through again.

I played for just over another 2 and a half hours (getting much further than I had the first time as I had done everything already) only to have the PC crash (I think it may have over heated). Again there was much swearing, this time I didn't want to lose my save data so I backed up the Ubisoft game launcher directory before booting the game, worried that it would resync with my saves from earlier this morning.

When I launch the game it does infact sync with the server and take me back to where I was after the first crash I occured (2-3 hours of gameplay ago, 5-6 hours ago real time as I had played through much of the game twice). I don't want to replay this section of the game a third time! Is there anyway to load my previous save? Or should I just give up and uninstall Assassin's Creed 2

[justinpunny]

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Try playing the game under 'Windows XP SP2 Compatibility Mode', if you are using Vista/7. This has known to somewhat help overcome this AC2 PC save game problem, as also told by this guy out here (InDebt08):

http://forums.ubi.com/eve/foru...1051016/m/1901062509

How to Run a Program in Compatibility Mode in Windows 7:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tut...patibility-mode.html

[ctregear]

I'm running Windows Vista.

While trying to get my old save back I deleted the one that was stored on the servers, so now I don't actually have any progress, and I can't be bothered playing through the first 5 hours again.

Time to give up I enjoyed the game, but not enough to play through everything again twice (somethings for a third time) with the possibility having to do things a forth or fifth time.

Ubisoft/DRM: 1
Me: 0

(It's actually quite a good way to make money, they really only need to make half a game then put in so many bugs and drm issues that people just give up).