I was testing something on my laptop, a MainGear system that I use for development. It’s been since December since I made a backup on my game. I keep delaying lately because life gets in the way.
Unfortunately my laptop just died, blue screen of death. My only choices now are to rebuild my system and keep personal data, or delete personal data.
Now I need help from someone who can really tell me, no guessing. When I’m working in Windows 10. Where does Unreal put my game? The software is on my disk in the software usual place, but is the game in my documents area? I seem to remember this, but it wasn’t always so with the old Unreal stuff, and I need to be sure so that I don’t screw up with the fleeting hit of a button.
I obviously can’t check this anywhere else, because my only Windows system that I develop with is now dead.
I need to figure out how to not lose my game.
I wish there was a way to send a call out for help among the community and know that I may get an answer quickly instead of hours and days from now, as I feel a part of my soul getting crushed while I try to figure this out.
You can save your game anywhere you want so it really depends on where you personally decided to save it. You said not to guess so no one can respond as guessing is the best we can do. I am fairly sure that by default Unreal puts games in the Documents folder. Not sure what you mean by “Rebuild my system”. If you are re-installing windows then I believe you can keep all files intact during the new windows install (all data will go to Windows.old after install). If you mean you are actually re-building the laptop then in that case you might want to take the drive and put it in an external case and just pull from it that way.
Yes, by rebuild I mean that it will wipe it clean and reinstall Windows 10. It’s a laptop, not sure how confident I am I can get the hard drive out, and rebuild the system. I’m trying to talk to Maingear about what my options are. I believe my game is saved in the documents, but I wasn’t able to confirm this using dos to crawl around the system, presumably even though I could get dos up, the system is not responding so I wasn’t able to see any files at all. Not very comforting. Thanks for the feedback.
well it’s a laptop, so I’m a little out of my element when it comes to pulling a computer apart. Usually I can pop a drive or ram out of my workstation, but i’ve been working on a gaming laptop the last year so i can be mobile.
Regarding the windows reinstall…when reinstalling Windows gives you the option to install without wiping the drive. The files get saved in the C:drive under “Windows.old”. But if something is wrong with your motherboard a reinstall may not even work. If it’s totally out of commision you can take the lap top to frys (or other computer place) and they will put the hard drive in an external case for you.