frank lee Posted July 7, 2013 Share Posted July 7, 2013 A failing PC PSU caused a system crash of biblical proportions which resulted in entire hard drives being blighted. Files and archives damaged or corrupted, that appear in my current circumstances to be irreplaceable.The instalation of skyrim was a write-off and some of my backed-up archives are corrupted while others merely damaged. But not all and not all totally! And as I have no other options I am trying to cobble a working game out of broken pieces. Yesterday I had a breakthrough and on taking a hard-drive from the freezer and hooking it up to a rescue machine I got it to run long enough to exract an apparently undamaged TESV.exe and a copy of Skyrim.esm. Two componants that I only had totally unusable copies of.Very carefully installed them into this lash-up C/ProgramFiles/ The Elderscrolls Skyrim and clicked the launcher. . . Boom. . Boom . . . And we're up! It works. New game. . .Working, try a save game (early one without mods. . . Working. Ok insert Hearthfire DLC (never had a problem with it personally) load a Hf savegame . . . good as gold. Dawnguard . . seems to run, new map location etc. Now Dragonborn and launch a save game from Solstiem. . . seems to work. This is looking like most of the game works, install a few armors and weapons mods, nothing complex or over-scripty. . . Still good and I can start a Lvl 49 character save and it appears to be stable but. . . LOOKUP FAILED! Hmm. SQT? nothing. Join the legion or find the facesculptor. Okay I can live with this lets hike over to Fort Dawnguard, talk to Isran, get quest and . . .no quest markers and nothing. But I've got something running that sort of works and Serrana was a pain anyway but the question (there is actually a question here) is how many errors like my Dawnguard one are introduced from the savegame. It seems like I've got some kind of load-door failure on DLC1VQ01 but the game isn't even seeing the quest ID. 'CAN' a save game do that, or is it more likely to be that Dawnguard's componants are impared? Or some occult combination of the two. Appreciating that I'm pushing the boundries way beyond what is sensible here. That I have gotten any of this wreckage to run at all is something of a miracle but we live and learn eh. Incidentally my recomendation to anyone would now be; write your backups to some uncorruptable medium like a DVD! While this is good advice, It appears you missed the part in our terms of service about NO piracy supported and NO pirate comments or help allowed.Banned for piracy. Bben46 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FiftyTifty Posted July 7, 2013 Share Posted July 7, 2013 What? Piracy? Bben, I took a look through of his comments, and what do I find? You having a disagreement with the fellow. And you ban him. You have proven that you don't know what Privacy is. Time to report, methinks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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