Thanks for the info Kiya. Unfortunately, my problems do not seem to fit in either category. Does anybody know if the game reads & rewrites the save games on startup? I had a properly working savegame directory yesterday and today I reinstalled the game and forgot to apply the patch. I run the game and it crashed - then I remembered the patch. So I applied it and run the game again and my savegame directory looked like this:
*all inv.b0 files were gone (I'm assuming that they were there before since new savegames create them)
*my three last saved folders had extensions .tmp
When I try to load one of the old savegames, the game crashes at the start of the load. I tried to copy an inv.b0 file from a new savegame into an old one and it prevented it from crashing at the start of loading the savegame, but the game crashes after done loading the savegame. So I didn't gain much. Does anybody know if there is a way to recreate the inv.b0 files or do I have to <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/memad.gif" alt="" /> start playing from the beginning hoping this will never happen again??