Steam – use Fallout 3 savegames in Fallout 3 GOTY

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I have played the boxed version of Fallout 3 without expansions at the beginning of 2009.

Now I have bought the GOTY on Steam and I would like to known if it is possible import my old savegames.

Best Answer

That's exactly the situation I was in. Yes, you can use Fallout 3 savegames (boxed) with Fallout 3 GOTY (steam) (if you had any mods installed in your original install, it will tell you "Some features of this savegame are no longer available. These features will be disabled." - my savegames still worked perfectly though)

I had to move the save files to a slightly different location, though. My original saves were stored in

C:\Users\BlueRaja\Documents\My Games\Fallout3\Saves\

(The XP-equivalent of that would be C:\Documents and Settings\BlueRaja\My Documents\My Games\Fallout3\Saves\)

My new saves were stored in (and thus my old saves had to be moved to):

C:\Users\BlueRaja\Documents\My Games\Fallout3\Saves\BlueRaja\

I would recommend installing and starting the new copy and, if it doesn't recognize your old saves, create a new game and save it real quick to let it create the save-directory, then move your save files to the new directory.

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