Save Games No Longer Work

[dazedcoffeecup]

I recently contracted a virus called "AXEL.DAV"

a virus that infects your files and eventually deletes them

and have successfully deleted it

 

but, by doing this i also had to do a system recovery (F10 on windows start-up)

 

I reinstalled Oblivion

and tried to load one of my characters

 

After i click on the Save file i wish to use, it goes to a loading screen

and a few seconds later, it crashes to desktop

 

I read off google that deleting the Autosave.ess and renaming autosave.bak to autosave.ess would help it

I tried to no avail

 

I can create a new character, and play as normally

and I do use player-made mods if that helps

 

I'm also guessing maybe my Shivering Isles has been modified due to AXEL.DAV and maybe since it's either lost/corrupted maybe my saves with them do not work?

Is reinstalling Shivering Isles going to fix this?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated

[Karasuman]

"Is reinstalling Shivering Isles going to fix this?"

 

Not likely. You can try, but I doubt it. Unfortunately, I would imagine those saves are dead, especially if you suspect the virus modified any of your game files prior to doing a Sys Restore.

 

How many hours do you have on the save file you attempted to load?

[dazedcoffeecup]

I played a new save for about an hour and realized that some things weren't functioning properly

 

Example) After killing Mythic Dawn in the church saving the prior guy a graphics glitch occured and red spewed everywhere

2) Walking into the bar meeting martin resulted in a huge display of random colors

3)Exiting certain shops leaves me with a black screen with either a looping sound or not which requires either a poweroff or waiting for a while (5 minutes)

 

oblivion makes me sad now :[

 

and to answer your question, i had one file with 95 hours

and the other with 91 hours

and a couple others under 40

 

it's awfully sad thinking about how much time i put into this game and it all went downhill...

 

i don't know if i can ever fix it

[tsolless]

Yeah I had this happen to me, except it was because of my own stupidity.

 

Good luck.

 

Also, now I keep a backup of save files on my Mp3 so even if my computer blows up I can still know that I have the files safely in my Mp3.

 

Thanks Sansa e260!

 

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But seriously it's a good idea to keep backups.