FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage Collector’s Edition – How to Recover Save File from the Old Version

Guide to Recover Save File from the Old Version

Сrеdit gоеs to RazielDroid!

This guide will help you recover your save progression after the Collector’s updates, if other method fails! That means the game crashes after you change the name of the .sav file in the app data folder.

So, you will need a hex editor (like hex editor neo, which is free).

First, you will need to turn off the Steam Cloud because many broken files may have already been created. Delete the modified zoom_flatout.ini file and do a game files check with Steam to redownload the official and unmodified zoom_flatout.ini file.

In your AppData folder, delete any .sav profile that has been created since the game collector’s edition update. Only keep your original .sav file.

In the folder where you installed the game, open the file: zoom_flatout.ini (as linked in the official post). But you only change the username to your Xbox gamer tag (it’s the name you used to play FlatOut UC with the Games for Windows Live feature).

Start the game, go to the main menu, and then quit after the game has created a save file.

Go back to the app folder/local/flatout ultimate carnage. Now you have two .sav files: your old one and the new one: player_d73b3000.sav. Open them both with hex editor neo.

On your old .sav file, you may have to go to the line 0000180 to see your gamertag written. On the new one, the files start with it. So that’s the problem!! The save files don’t have the same inside length, and that makes your game crash!

So, with hex editor neo, the trick is to copy all the values from the old file to the new one, but only from the point which is right after your gamertag name.

Example

Your gamertag is: FlatLOVER. On the old file, you will see this name (written in a strange way) at the line 0000180 for the first time. So, you click one time to the point which follows the last letter of your gamer tag (here for the example, it’s) FlatLOVER (so the point after the R). Then, you scroll to the end of the file and press Shift + left mouse click to select everything from these two points. You copy all that with Ctrl + C.

Now, you go back to the new .sav file. You locate your gamertag name (so here, FlatLOVER). You click again on the point right after the last letter of your gamertag name, and scroll to the bottom of the document, and select all the data between these two points. You delete all these values! Once it’s done, you can copy the copied value from the old .sav file to this new one.

Congrats! You now have a 100% working .sav file and can enjoy having all your progression restored!

Best regards, and have fun with FlatOut UC.