Windows

The Elder Scrolls Adventures: Redguard

SYMPTOM: You are playing the regular software game (Not the 3Dfx game). The "Load" screen appears and begins the percentage bar at the bottom of your screen. It proceeds normally, but then stops at 90-96% and goes no farther. This forces either an END TASK routine (Ctrl+Alt+Del) or a REBOOT.

In a nutshell -- copy the Map (extension .TSG) you need into the proper Savegame directory.

In my case, the game froze as I was approaching N'Gasta Isle on the boat. The map I needed was ... NECRISLE.TSG. Most of the maps are copied into the Redguard Subfolder MAPS. Others are saved in each SAVEGAME folder.

NOTE: This solution will NOT work if you have never visited the area before. For instance, you won't be able to get inside the castle by simply copying the map to your savegame.

Step by step instructions:
1) Open Windows Explorer. Expand the REDGUARD subfolder (default is: C:\Program Files\Redguard)

2) From the top menu, select TOOLS--FIND--FILES OR FOLDERS. In the top block, type the name of the map you need (i.e. necrisle.tsg). The block "INCLUDE SUBFOLDERS" should be checked. Click FIND NOW.

3) Maximize the window. Stretch the IN FOLDER column so you can see the entire directory where each file is located.

4) Find the SAVEGAME directories where your map has more than 0 bytes. (Notice the ones with more bytes are all identical.) Make a note of the SAVEGAME Numbers you found. Close the Find window.

5) Back in Windows Explorer, go to the SAVEGAME subfolder. Open up each SAVEGAME and pick out your most recent game(s) by date. Of those, open each LOGBOOK.TXT (I use Notepad) to determine where you are in the game at that point. (In my case, I had 6 games saved on 6/6/99 at different times. None of those had NECRISLE.TSG with any bytes ... all were zero.)

6) Open one of the SAVEGAMES you found containing the proper .TSG map from Step 4 above. Highlight the .TSG map file. From the top bar select EDIT--COPY. Move to each of your SAVEGAMES and selected EDIT--PASTE. In each case, answer YES to overwrite the file (it doesn't matter if it is an older file).

7) Close Windows Explorer.

8) Start Redguard in your normal way. LOAD or CONTINUE and retry what failed before. (In my case, I chose LOAD and picked a game I had saved before the glitch.) When you get to where you are going, be sure and save a new game!