Posts from Problem with saves in Heroes of Might and Magic V: Tribes of the East (pirated version).

Greetings to all members of this wonderful game's forum. I'm very glad that there are still people who enjoy this game series. I really hope for your help.

We are playing on a pirated version.

After playing for some time and deciding to resume the game, it turned out that my friend's game simply doesn't recognize the saves. We decided to figure out what the problem is.

Here's what we managed to find out:

The problem only occurs with ToTE; the original game and Hammers of Fate save perfectly on my friend's computer. When we looked at the entire save process in ToTE, it turned out that the save folder is created differently than in the original and Hammers of Fate. As far as I understand, the original and HoF save to the path C:\Users\User\Documents\My Games\Heroes of Might and Magic V, while ToTE saves to the path C:\Users\User\Documents\My Games\Heroes of Might and Magic V — Tribes of the East. We see that the folders differ after the \My Games\ directory.

But here's the problem:

In the My Games directory, the folder that should have been inside Heroes of Might and Magic V — Tribes of the East is created directly, instead of the latter one. That is, the Profiles folder is created, and a profile with the specified name is created inside it, but there are no saves inside that profile folder.

Because of this problem, my friend receives a message every time he tries to save, saying that there is not enough space on the disk, although there are tens of gigabytes of free space. Can you suggest how we could solve this issue? The game has already been reinstalled, but the problem remains.

Greetings to all members of this wonderful game's forum, I'm very glad that there are still people who enjoy this game series. I really hope for your help.

We are playing on a pirated version.

After playing for some time and deciding to resume the game, it turned out that my friend's game simply doesn't recognize the saves. We decided to figure out what the problem is.

All that we managed to find out:

The problem appears specifically with Tribes of the East; the original game and Hammers of Fate are saved perfectly on my friend's computer. When we looked at the entire save process in Tribes of the East, it turned out that the save folder is created differently than in the original and Hammers of Fate. As I understand it, the original and HoF are saved in the path C:\Users\User\Documents\My Games\Heroes of Might and Magic V, while Tribes of the East is saved in the path C:\Users\User\Documents\My Games\Heroes of Might and Magic V — Tribes of the East. We see that the folders differ after the \My Games\ directory.

But here's the problem:

In the My Games directory, the folder that should have been inside Heroes of Might and Magic V — Tribes of the East is created directly, instead of the latter named one, that is, the Profiles folder, and a profile with the specified name is created there, but there are no saves inside that profile folder.

Because of this problem, my friend receives a message every time he saves that there is not enough space on the disk, although there are tens of gigabytes of free space. Can you suggest how we could solve this issue? The game has already been reinstalled, but the problem remains.

Oh, a tricky problem.

You could try creating a profile with a different name, running it as an administrator, who knows.

The path to the saves is correct; Tribes of the East differs from the original and vanilla

Because the Russian language wasn't working for my friend, we figured out that the issue might be related to this. As it turned out, the problem was caused by the system language being set to Japanese in the computer's regional settings through the control panel. After changing it to Russian, my friend's game started displaying Russian characters correctly, and the save files started working again.

Problem solved.