*NASCAR 09 Warning for 360* Back Up Your Saved Profile

[mniner2003]

I'm holding off on doing anymore challenges until this get patched. Besides, running with OS guys with my car at default helps me out because everyone is tuned up to burn fuel like crazy. With my car on default, I get about 2-3 more laps per fuel run!

[emark182]

like i dont even want to try to redo everything because who knows what the chances of it happening again are

this sucks

[Flamehead]

Well guys, enjoy the game. I'm done. The profile save corrupted on me AGAIN, and in the SAME PLACE--after the 4th race of the Craftsmen truck series in Career mode. For the love of everything sacred, can EA not put out one game that doesn't have some game-breaking bug? Damn, these people have no quality control whatsoever.

I even saved it twice, one of those to the memory card to have as a backup--no dice. Both saves are corrupted.

At this point, I think my only recourse is to get a good PC gaming rig and stay away from consoles altogether for the racing. I don't want arcade racers, and most console publishers could care less about sim titles (I'm talking the real deal--40+ cars on the grid, damage, physics, the whole enchalada. Some consoles titles have some of these, but not all of them). Then when a decent one like this one comes out, a corrupted save bug rears its ugly head--beautiful EA, just beautiful. These guys are making money hand over fist, yet game-breaking incompetence reigns.

I hear Papyrus still to this day has set the bar for PC NASCAR games, so I might have to check some of those older titles out. Not to mention GTR2, etc.

[xx74xx]

Sorry to hear that.

I have an XChange360, and I know I have a non-corrupted save currently, so i've backed it up on my CPU as well.

[mniner2003]

Quote: Originally Posted by Flamehead

Well guys, enjoy the game. I'm done. The profile save corrupted on me AGAIN, and in the SAME PLACE--after the 4th race of the Craftsmen truck series in Career mode. For the love of everything sacred, can EA not put out one game that doesn't have some game-breaking bug? Damn, these people have no quality control whatsoever. I even saved it twice, one of those to the memory card to have as a backup--no dice. Both saves are corrupted. At this point, I think my only recourse is to get a good PC gaming rig and stay away from consoles altogether for the racing. I don't want arcade racers, and most console publishers could care less about sim titles (I'm talking the real deal--40+ cars on the grid, damage, physics, the whole enchalada. Some consoles titles have some of these, but not all of them). Then when a decent one like this one comes out, a corrupted save bug rears its ugly head--beautiful EA, just beautiful. These guys are making money hand over fist, yet game-breaking incompetence reigns. I hear Papyrus still to this day has set the bar for PC NASCAR games, so I might have to check some of those older titles out. Not to mention GTR2, etc.

Be prepared to spend lots of time and money. But if a sim experience is what you are looking for, then PC is the way to go.

I enjoy NASCAR 09 because it's convenient. I simply come home from work and fire it up on my 360 There's no need to go download tracks, patches, cars, etc.

Let me know if you pick up Nascar Racing 2003. I'll catch you online sometime.

[emark182]

does anyone think its from sahring cars back and forth?

[mniner2003]

Quote: Originally Posted by emark182

does anyone think its from sahring cars back and forth?

No. I don't use created cars at all and it happend to me.

[Flamehead]

Quote: Originally Posted by mniner2003

Let me know if you pick up Nascar Racing 2003. I'll catch you online sometime.

Thanks mniner, I'll definitely look for you once I pick it up.

[creek24]

Two days ago I read a couple of posts about this problem and I thought it wouldn't happen to me. Well...it happened to me yesterday. Here's how my problem started. I had autosave on and I was done racing online. I hit continue and my game froze. I turned my XBOX off and restarted the game. From that point on I haven't been able to get back into the game. So it must have happened when it froze after that online game while it was saving my profile before the menu screen. Today is going to be a sad day for me as I delete my profile and start over.

I've read a number of post from several forums and I'm going to try the Memory Card method. It looks to be the safest way.

[bluengold34]

File just corrupted on me, after I had all the challenges done

I wish there was an emoticon for this!!!