Save files corrupted?

[Wastrel]

I wonder how many people will recognize me.

Anyways, recently I got my computer upgraded, so I decided to go through Painkiller with super-hot graphics. However, during the catacombs mission, I was killed during the second to last part where all these enemies come running at you and try to kill you, yada yada.

When I loaded up the checkpoint, the game crashed, and I got a "Painkiller has encountered a problem and has to close" error. I found this odd.

I opened up the game again, tried to run it again...same thing.

I tried opening previous checkpoints, and the previous THREE checkpoints gave me the same error. The fourth loaded fine.

What's going on here?

Specs:

Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E6400 (2.13 Ghz)
nVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS
2 GB of RAM
Windows XP with SP2

It's not overheating, I have 6 freaking fans in there. My power supply is sufficient (450 watts, I believe), so I think it's a problem with the game.

[Varus77]

Welcome again...
Check your SaveGames folder and delete all empty folders inside.
:)

[PF6585]

I'm gonna say this since you didn't say anything about it, always patch up the game before you play. I believe one of the patches does indeed deal with saving issues.

[Wastrel]

Hmmph. Seems I found the problem. During the PK installation, I applied the patches THEN installed BooH, and it erased the patches. I re-applied them, and my saves aren't corrupting anymore (although those saves in question were killed off).

Thanks for the help, and good to be here again.

[Varus77]

Yeah - same about you (I remember you and the good old days :) )

Yes, installing BooH means 1.5 and decreasind the version. 1.61 solved the save problem coming with 1.5.