Larian Studios Forums Beyond Divinity (English) Technical Problems Saving to hard drive problems

I've just had another problem come up with saving the game to hard drive. The first messsage I got about a week or so ago and thought nothing of it. Today when it happened again , I thought I'd better find out if anyone else has had the problem. I seem to remember reading a post within the forums about this but could not find it again.This is what happens..........
When you go to save the file you get the message 'had problems saving game to your hard drive' and then if it does save it becomes a saved game with tmp. after it and is none re-loadable.
Any help appreciated

How much free hard drive space do you have? Are you shutting down all non-essential programs (especially anti-virus) before playing the game?

Try running a ScanDisk (right click on the hard drive in Windows Explorer, select Properties, switch to the Tools tab, and hit the Check Now button in the Error Checking Status section).

Hi Raze
I've got loads of space on my hard drive, and have shut down all non-essentials whilst running the game.
It just seems strange that this should happen after playing so much of the game. (guess I'm nearing the end now ).
Unfortunately, I was getting cockey and forgot to save it ( almost 2 hours worth of play arrrrgghhhh !!! )so ofcourse when this message came up you can guess I was well sick .
Thought. Is there a way that you can somehow edit the save game .tmp file to make it active again??

[color:"orange"]Is there a way that you can somehow edit the save game .tmp file to make it active again??[/color]

The .tmp save is a temporary folder that the games saves files to before copying to a folder without the tmp extension. This is to prevent a working save from being damaged if there is a problem during the save process (if you are overwriting an existing save).

Your chances of fixing a .tmp save would depend where exactly in the save process the problem occurred. In Windows Explorer, browse to the '..\Beyond Divinity\savegames' folder, and compare the number of files in the .tmp folder to saves from a similar point in the game. Depending on the file, missing files might be replaceable with corresponding ones from the next most recent working save, though this might cause other problems.