[SOLVED] Can't find Doom 3 save games

nine9nine · 05-15-2011, 09:17 AM

Hi. I installed Doom 3 natively onto Ubuntu, and I wanted to move my save games from Windows to Linux, since it's a long game and I'm not that great at computer gaming. However, I can't seem to find the save games. I've looked on Google, and people have said that it would be in /home/"your name"/.doom3. I go to /home/"my name"/ but there is no .doom3. Does anyone know how to access this folder, or where the save games are?

corp769 · 05-15-2011, 09:30 AM

Hello,

They should be in /home/<USER>/.doom3/base/savegames. Could you navigate to your home directory, and give us the output of the following command?

Code:

ls -al ~/.d*

If anything, you should just need to run up Doom and create a new games, then save it, close it down, and go back and see if it was created.

Cheers,

Josh

nine9nine · 05-15-2011, 10:11 AM

My output for that command is

Code:

-rw-r--r-- 1 colin colin   92 2011-05-15 09:37 /home/colin/.dmrc

/home/colin/.dbus:
total 12
drwx------  3 colin colin 4096 2011-03-29 13:15 .
drwxr-xr-x 51 colin colin 4096 2011-05-15 09:37 ..
drwx------  2 colin colin 4096 2011-03-29 13:15 session-bus

/home/colin/.doom3:
total 16
drwxr-xr-x  4 colin colin 4096 2011-05-13 19:23 .
drwxr-xr-x 51 colin colin 4096 2011-05-15 09:37 ..
drwxr-xr-x  4 colin colin 4096 2011-05-15 09:39 base
drwxr-xr-x  2 colin colin 4096 2011-05-13 19:23 pb

How do I navigate to /home/colin/.doom3? I know that the game installed in /usr/local/games/doom3, but I can't find any folder called "savegames" like there is in Windows. I can load a game I saved while in Linux, but can't find where it saved to.

nine9nine · 05-15-2011, 10:20 AM

I just went to the terminal and got this:

Code:

~/.doom3/base$ dir
config.spec  DoomConfig.cfg  doomkey  gamex86.so  maps	savegames  xpkey

I opened the savegames folder in the terminal and it showed the games that I saved. However, I can't find this folder without the terminal, so I can't move my Windows saves to it.

corp769 · 05-15-2011, 08:04 PM

You can use the cp command to copy. As far as not seeing the hidden directories in nautilus, you need to go to Edit -> Preferences within a nautilus window, and on the Views tab, check the option for "Show hidden and backup files."

Cheers,

Josh

nine9nine · 05-15-2011, 08:36 PM

Thanks for your help. I did not know about the hidden folders.

corp769 · 05-15-2011, 09:03 PM

No problem man!

Josh