Need help restoring my Half Life 2 save files!

[marwan]

I have recently formated my PC and backed up the "save" folder in the Half Life 2 directory. When i reinstalled everyting, including HL2, i dumped the "save" folder in the same directory where it was before. I fire up the game hoping to resume my saved game and to my surprise there are no saved games!

what gives? did i do something wrong? i dont wanna replay the game all over again. How do i load up my older saves files?


thanks!

[epmode]

i'm not sure how to recover the save files, but you'll be able to jump to any chapter by altering the following file:
Steam\SteamApps\<USERNAME>\half-life 2\hl2\cfg\config.cfg

make sure that you change the variable sv_unlockedchapters to 14.
in other words, make sure the line
sv_unlockedchapters "14"
is somewhere in the file.

[napalm]

I just recently did the same thing except it worked just fine for me. What exactly did you do? I copied the folder, then installed the game and copy and pasted the saves in the SAVE folder, without overwriting the folder itself... worked just fine for me.

[marwan]

NApOlm i will try it again, even though it didnt work the first time around.

epmode i will try that too, thanks!

and btw, the game is too darn easy! ;(