fallout 3 saves.. gone?

[BrianHanna]

yea, so after not playing fallout 3 for a while, i bought xbox live points so i could buy the next expansion for it.. i was max lvl (20 for my version), with amazingly good karma, full power suits (tesla), plasma rifles and just about every item in game (legitimately), and to my dismay, when i opened up the game, there was no "continue" or "load" option. i tried signing out of live, still wasn't there, tried signing in, couldnt find it. what do i do? this sucks. this is what is in my saves file for fallout but when i do a search in the search area, this shows up is there anyway to recover this, i just cant get it to work

[Signal2Noise]

Doesn't GFW Live keep a record of the saves in it's own save directory? I'll need to check mine when I get home to my desktop. You may want to search for a 'Live' folder on your primary 'C' partition.

Fwiw, I feel the whole Fallout 3 DLC for PC has been poorly executed from a end-user standpoint. It's very confusing how it's all installed and handled. I had problems with both the digital download and store-bought expansions. When the GotY edition comes out next week for the 360 I'm buying that and be done with it.

[BrianHanna]

it isnt the dlc that caused it, before i installed the dlc, or even paid for it, when i opened fallout 3, i got the menu opened up and got the message "optimal settings loaded" or some crap. this is very annoying, i would have started the game over on hard or something, but still, it was such an amazing save.

[Varroa]

If you weren't logged into GFWL before then all your saved games are still saved but under a different directory, it is a known problem:

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