Feb
26
You bought Crysis, fell in love with it, then you downloaded the Jan 08 patch for all the cool fixes and tweaks and all of a sudden it takes 30 minutes to load your saved game or 45 minutes to recover from the freeze at every checkpoint! Ubersuck! Disturbing isn’t it? EA should thank its shooting stars that the game is stellar enough to send people out searching for a fix otherwise we’d all give up and toss it into the pile of unplayable trash games we wish we could turn in for a refund.
I was resolved, but everywhere I virtually turned, I read tales of woe from numerous people having the same problem. The Internet geek squad responds to our desperate gamespot bulletins with instructions to clean our temp files and defrag our hard drives. *eyeroll*
Without further ado:
Behavior:
· At the end of Onslaught, the game freezes and you are unable to save the last checkpoint to move onto the next level; Awakening.
· Once you get into Awakening, you start to load your saved game, and you might as well go rebuild an engine or knit a sweater while you wait for it to finish.
· Every checkpoint takes 30 to 45 minutes to save and move forward.
Resolution:
STEP 1: Delete your superfluous saved games located in:
(XP) “C:\Documents and Settings\yourprofile\My Documents\My Games\Crysis\Savegames” or (Vista) “C:\Users\yourprofile\Documents\My Games\Crysis\Savegames”.
Make sure you only delete the multiple entries for each level. Your saved game will include a file for each level such as “dawngrrl_Onslaught_crysis.crysisjmsf” and then you will see some with a date included in the filename such as “dawngrrl_13_Onslaught_crysis_03m_32s.crysisjmsf. These are the interim save points within your game. Delete them all save for the most recent (highest number order). If this doesn’t work, your saved games are likely corrupted. Yuck!
STEP 2: Head over to Incrysis, because thankfully, from somewhere in nowhere Kansas, Luigi has been hard at work so you can yank a saved game from him. Download the level you’re stuck on and replace it with the one in your profile (You will need to change Luigi_ to YourProfile_, of course.) and then start the level without any delays. Moo Chess Grassy Ass, Luigi, I for one am most grateful and hopefully you can help the rest of the sad searching crysians find their way!
Alternatively, you could just uninstall and reinstall the game without adding the 1.1 patch and your stuck yuck should go away - but the patch has some sweet memory leak fixes that are beneficial enough to be worth it.
Kiss Kiss,
Dawngrrl Gametart
