might sound dumb but did you put your save game in the correct folder ?

Originally posted by Flammable:

might sound dumb but did you put your save game in the correct folder ?

It's not dumb if it works. Idk which folder the file is supposed to be in. I've had it in games folder and on desktop with same result.

Originally posted by Uromysitisis:

Originally posted by Flammable:

might sound dumb but did you put your save game in the correct folder ?

It's not dumb if it works. Idk which folder the file is supposed to be in. I've had it in games folder and on desktop with same result.

you could try to start a new game and save it on day one.find out were that save is and put your old save in that folder. i hope that works.

Originally posted by Flammable:

Originally posted by Uromysitisis:

you could try to start a new game and save it on day one.find out were that save is and put your old save in that folder. i hope that works.

I tried this, and had my save in that same folder. Unfortunately still does not load. I still have it in a working state on my old computer. I will try to move larger pieces of the steamfolder along and see if that helps.

Originally posted by Flammable:

might sound dumb but did you put your save game in the correct folder ?

I made it work. Not sure which one of these tricks worked. But I go through it all.

1. fired up the game on my old computer, started my save and saved it in the root of the football manager folder, and not in the users save games app that is usually prompted.

2. copied the entire steamapps\common\football manager 2012 folder to a USB, including the fresh save

3. fired up the new computer with win 11, deleted the steamapps\common\football manager 2012 folder. Then copied the same folder from the USB to that very same place.

4. The game would not run now, I got a prompt saying something about it being corrupt. I let steam "verify game cache" and it couldn't - so it redownloaded som of the files.

5. Now FM2012 started as normal and when I load my fresh save from steamapps\common\football manager 2012 root it runs!

I'm now ready to keep playing on my file and building on my 2000+ hours of this amazing version of the game.

Originally posted by Fabio:

Originally posted by Flammable:

might sound dumb but did you put your save game in the correct folder ?

This might be a piece of the solution. See what finally worked for me below.
I did not save the games in the saved games folder on my old computer. It had to do with storage space.