Wanted to see if anybody else has had this issue and, if so, how they resolved
it.
I'm having an obscure problem with Borderlands that at first seems to
present as my game not being saved at all - when I go to play again, the save
file is there, but it just starts me at the beginning of the game (right after I
get off the bus and the robot gives me my HUD). However, upon closer
inspection, it's actually starting me back at the beginning of the game with
my character (level/xp, equipment, etc) all intact.
Note that there is an issue with this game and saving that's unrelated to
WINE - see http://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=85867 - I did try
this remedy but passing that argument to the executable causes it to crash on
startup stating that it can't find/open a file or something like that. I
tried creating all the directories in ~/.wine/drive_c/Program
Files/Steam/steamapps/borderlands/ but no go - I'm running in Windows 7 mode
anyway (although I tried XP to no avail). This issue doesn't seem like it
would crop up in WINE anyway - in XP mode it wasn't having any trouble
locating my save file and graphics settings.
Right before posting this I tried copying the save file to my (Windows 7) laptop
and loading it and, lo and behold, it loaded right up to the location where I
saved. So the problem is definitely occurring in the routines to load the save
file. I would just play on my laptop but in order to get it to run at a halfway
reasonable frame rate I have to play at 512x384 >.>
