Ok, in a nutshell my problem is i want to finish the original Silent Storm. Like all good pc owners I have to reformat my hard drive once in a while so at this point all i have is the save games from the last time i played it, maybe a good year ago.

 

Whacking the saves into the installed game aint hard, but thats not my problem.

 

Problem is I installed SS a while ago, added my saves and was happily playing for a while until i realised i couldnt complete the level i was on! The documents i needed to collect were just not present whatsoever, which i convinced myself of with a lot of trial and error.

 

My theory is that the copy on the install i took the saves FROM is a different version I'm putting the saves into. There's been at least two patches i think, so this is my problem.

 

Everything else is fine, baddies etc. Just no documents where the online FAQs tell me they should be.

 

Anyone know of a way to tell from maybe looking at the saves what version of the game they were from?

 

Hope that made sense....!

I wouldn't know I'm sorry to say. Maybe one of the modders know?

 

You could uninstall the patch (or game if required), finish the level on version 1.0 (or 1.1 if it doesn't work) and then patch it I guess? (though it's a lot of trouble)

Hehe, welcome back cyke Been a while!

 

I would just say that documents aren't always in the same place if you were to replay a mission from the beginning (ie the before mission autosave). If you still have that autosave, it might be an idea to go back to it and try again.

 

There are apparently a few bugs in the game whereby blowing buildings up can fire the documents out of reach off the edge of a map and I'm not sure whether this was ever fixed in the patches... You may be the victim of your own destructive success

 

Just out of interest though, what mission is it and I'll try to recall what I did to get through it if my brain can take the strain.

Ah, its a very late one where you are storming a factory with a train behind and a lot of panzerkleins around. The online FAQs tell me the docs i need are in the upstairs offices, but theres no documents anywhere, and i dont feel i did so much damage as to have removed them all from the screen. Very frustrating, but i might just bite the bullet and load an earlier save methinks.

I'd recommend that, unfortunately. Every problem I've had with the game has been solved by reloading to the world map and starting the mission over.

 

Are you playing with the Save Mod enabled? You should really try getting that, as it greatly decreases my main frustration with the game: playing for 2 hours, then having to leave my house and leave the game running. I like to save and come back later, but to each their own.

 

Welcome back to the boards!