MaG, I was playing the game on Windows 7 Home Premium on my Acer laptop and I want to move the saved games from the Acer to the Dell M1530 (which is running XP), so I would like to know where are the saves located in Windows 7, please?

Why don't you figure it out for yourself, Cruise?
Do a search of your hard drive to find out where the game put your saves on Windows 7.

You keep saying you want to be a tech, but a tech has to be able to figure things out for themself. Being able to search your hard drive is pretty basic. Pretend this is a school assignment and see if you can find the saves yourself. If you don't know the name of the save file, make a new save and try a "search by date."

I didn't know that you could search for a file/folder by date. You taught me something, Jenny, and that's what I did - I loaded up the game on the Acer, saved, noted the date and how the save file was dated, then I went to the Win 7 Start menu, typed in the date exactly as it appeared in the game's save menu, at the first couple of tried I searched in vain but then I tried clicking on the "date modified" text below the search box at the upper R corner of the screen (when I was in "computer") and the computer came up with a bunch of files that had dates next to them to the right, I kept scrolling with the mouse until I found dates of "2.18.2012" and I came to a listing of at least 2 folders marked "C:\users\[my computer name]\AppData\local\Daedalic Entertainment\A New Beginning with the date of 2.18.2012" and the folder to the extreme left of this listing was labelled "savegames". I then copied this folder to my flash drive, and wrote the path to this saved game folder down on the back of the w/t printout. Now that I already have the game on the Dell M1530, I'm going to find the save game folder in the game directory and paste the save folder in there, and will let you guys know how it goes.

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Guys, I'm on my Dell M1530 (XP) now, I did a search for "Daedalic Entertainment" on the C:\ drive, I had to do a total of 3 searches, each time expanding the search to include subfolders and then hidden folders and I finally found the game directory (except that the full path wasn't listed but only the beginning of the path) so after I inserted my jump drive into USB, and copied all the save game files, I minimized all windows, and I clicked on the "Daedaliac Entertainment" folder that showed up in the search results and Lo and Behold, there was the "savegame" folder, so I simply opened it and pasted all the contents from the folder on my jump drive, started up the game, and sure enough, all the saves were in place! Plus I tested one of them by loading it, it loaded OK, moved some of the characters around, made Bent search the algae refrigerator (this save was in the lab), everything was fine. Oh, the game still had that problem with no inventory as Bent, so I F8'd to the game's menu, clicked "return to game" and R=clicked, the inventory was back! Yay!!! I'm guessing that I might have better performance with running the game with FRAPS running (screenshot taker for games) in the background b/c of the fact that many of these latest releases, if you run them on Vista or Win 7 they call for 1 gig of RAM, but if you run them in XP they only call for 512 MB of RAM, and since the Dell M1530 has 4 gigs of RAM, I think this will likely prevent the game's freezing up at certain points while the screenshot program is running, but I'll start playing the game and I'll let you guys know.

Anyway what do you say re "better game performance while running background apps" in XP vs Vista/7, Jenny, Inland?

EDIT - just checked my system specs, it says XP sees a total of 3.50 gig of RAM.

You're the one who has the game installed with FRAPS running on both Windows 7 and XP. Why don't you do the test and let us know if there's any improvement running on XP?

Inland, Jenny, I restarted the game from the Chapter 5 save with the screenshot taker (FRAPS) running in XP on the M1530 and I was able to play all the way up to the beginning of Chapter 7 with no game freezes, no problems at all. So I think it's either the Acer's hardware or something about Windows 7 that caused these game lockups at these points mentioned before in this thread - I'm wondering what could be the cause of these lockups? How to troubleshoot to find what's causing these lockups on the Acer/Win 7?

Possibly due to the drivers.
Possibly something to do with Optimus, if it's switching between the Intel and Nvidia at inopportune moments.

I was wondering this, too. Do you think this is going to be a problem with future adventure games after adventure games are no longer supporting XP?