grahamcoleman

I have a laptop and a home PC. I have FM 2008 and the 8.0.2 patch installed on both. Can I alternate the play between the 2?

So play on home pc, save game, copy games from My Docs etc onto the laptop, load this, play, save, copy back etc etc?

Reason I ask is I travel quite a bit with work and would like to be able to play on laptop when away, but PC when at home (is much faster machine)

retired_adthompson

Providing the file does not get corrupted while transfering from one machine to the other then it should work fine yes.

retired_Kylie

Yep, you certainly can, pop your saved game file onto a memory stick and away you go.

I can't email the file though for some reason?

grahamcoleman

probably can't email cause of the size. I noticed my saved game as 35MB or something, which most email providers wont allow.

About corrupting - suppose once I'm smart with backups etc I should be ok

Cheers for the help lads

retired_adthompson

I know its a pain, but I would forget the usb idea and use a cdrw, then you can verify easily the integrity of the file.

Corrupt files when xfering between machines, especially with usb devices etc or across networks is very common.

If its what you want to do, play it safe, saves a lot of hair pulling out should it not load up

retired_jennd809

I think that is the best bit of advice in my personal opinion.

grahamcoleman

yeah plan was - say I wanted to get from PC to laptop

1) make a zip of the file from PC - zips copier safer I think, are smaller too
2) copy Zip to key
3) backup the one on the laptop at the mo
4) copy on the new one and try and load

if it loads great, if not delete it and go back to old one etc

should be ok I think

retired_jtingle

Personally, I just use a USB stick and have never had a problem. I can see why you might if you just drag the file back and forth, but I just use 'save as' in game and create the file on the USB stick, then load it directly from there in game on my laptop. That way, when I hit CTRL S to save game when I'm done, it updates the file on the stick and it's ready to load back into whichever machine I care to use.

If I'm concerned about losing data, I just 'save as' on the hard drive of which ever machine I'm on as a back-up, mostly cos I'm worried I'll lose the stick.

Boddington

Can I recommend not using a CDRW and use your iPod as a Hard Drive? I find this is easiest as you can load your game straight from your iPod (provided it has connected). As always make sure you have a backup.

One bit of advice - if playing it on two PC's remember to take the CD from one place to the other! Otherwise you will get very frustrated - particularly if you leave it at work over the weekend! (Not that I've done that before......maybe.....)

retired_adthompson

That would work too :thup: