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Cryostasis - noclip and save folder solution

Name: Anonymous 2011-11-11 5:45


The game Cryostasis (developed by the now defunct ukrainian company Action Forms) has plenty of annoying bugs in it, one of them being that you'll activate noclip and start flying through walls upon loading a save.
The best solution (according to Gamestop - http://www.gamespot.com/cryostasissleepofreason/forum/messages/platform/pc?topic_id=m-1-49532294&pid=932840 ) is to delete all of your hard savefiles, and reload the most recent autosave. (The hard savefiles are the ones that start with a 0.)
However, that's just the beginning of your trouble, because where Cryostasis saves your files, does not only vary from OS to OS, but from publisher to publisher, and from area to area. A lot of the save folders have been covered online, but for Aspyrs release for Windows 7.
You'll notice that the game folder itself does have a save folder, but that it just contains an empty "hold.txt" file. This folder is write protected, and the game does not actually have permission to create save files inside it, so Windows 7, in accordance with User Account Control, instead creates the save files in the "Virtalstore" folder, located in
C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\Aspyr\Cryostasis\Data\Save .
After deleting the hard saves, try moving the remaining saves to the original folder, and removing its write protection, to see if the game now starts saving inside this folder like it should.

Name: Anonymous 2011-11-11 6:34

The above solution doesn't fix things. Further, I installed the 1.1 patch, which positively ruined all my saves, so I can't experiment further with the noclip bug unless it happens again later on. I have removed all the copy protections in the Cryostasis\ folder, and hope that the game will stop saving to the VirtualStore\ folder now.

Name: Anonymous 2011-11-11 13:56

The game still saves in the VirtualStore\ folder, despite me unprotecting everything. This might be due to UAC.
The noclip bug hasn't happened yet, so installing patch 1.1 is recommended. Hopefully you weren't 12 chapters into the game like I was.

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