If you’re one of those people who play games over long periods of time (huge game backlogs and stuff 😛 ) and you reinstall Windows or games in between, but want to continue using old save files, sometimes problems happen. I remember Need for Speed: Carbon having such problem where save file had to be from your created profile, otherwise it refused to load it (which is dumb design, but oh well). And Tomb Raider Anniversary is joining that party. Been a while when I decided to play Tomb Raider franchise through and ended up at Anniversary. Loaded it up today and it refused to load the profile with error “Unable to load profile”. Looked up online and only found bunch of people complaining over same thing with no fix. So I figured it out myself.
Here’s how to fix it…
Start the game, get the error, dismiss it and create new profile with different name than your old one. Just call it “NEW”.
Go to game’s profiles folder:
C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME\Documents\Eidos\Tomb Raider – Anniversary\
Look for your old profile, open the folder and just copy ALL the file from your old profile into folder “NEW” (overwrite all files) which is the newly created profile we just created few moments ago. Rename your old profile folder to “OLD” so you’ll know for the next time which is which.
Now go back into game and load the “NEW” profile. The game should load it up without any errors.
Enjoy 🙂
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