Where do i find them if not in My Document or My Games (in My Documents) or any of the AppData folders ? 
 
i found them for most of my games, but not  

• Painkiller      -- edit: FOUND !!
• The Maw  
• Eufloria  
• and most importantly, Mini Ninjas !!!!   --- edit:  FOUND !!

Are they Steam installs? Some of my Steam saves are in C -> Program Data -> Steam

I formatted lately and had to start all over again for most of the games, except steam games which are all on another drive.

" Are they Steam installs? Some of my Steam saves are in C -> Program Data -> Steam "

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I formatted lately and had to start all over again for most of the games, except steam games.

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" @Binman88 said:

" Are they Steam installs? Some of my Steam saves are in C -> Program Data -> Steam "

no they're not. my only steam games are orange box and mw2, and i found those in D:\Steam\SteamApps 
 
 
@HitmanAgent47 said:

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I formatted lately and had to start all over again for most of the games, except steam games.

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dude, DUDE, you have no fucking idea how many times i started all over for so many games (formatted for like 6 times in the past year.. weird crashing incidents) and i dont know why the hell i didnt think of seeking the saves files til now.  I'm kinda uncomfortable with games like Half-Life 2, Crysis, Assassin's Creed and GTA IV because i played the first levels of each one so many times then having to format.. and those games are SOME OF MY FAVOURITES. I know you're a Crysis looney, so im telling u this: i fucking love Crysis and i really wanna beat it once more but the first 2-3 levels ive played so much that i now hate and wish i could skip to the action.. if i jump out of that plane one more time im gonna have a sex change . "

The games readme file should tell you where the save files are, if it doesn't then that's pretty stupid. 
 
Why exactly do you need to reformat your PC so often? 

Some of the time they are installed in the Documents folder.  They could also be installed in the hidden folder located at c:\users\"your name"\appdata\.  Inside that appdata folder, there should be 3 other folders that could contain the settings/saves for games, usually it's in the local folder.

• Computer
• "Organise" Button
• Folder and Search options
• View tab
• check "Show Hidden Files and Folder"
• C: Drive
• Users folder
• *your user name* folder
• AppData Folder (it was hidden from view before)
  
• Check in All three folders that you now see : Local, LocalLow and Roaming for folders relating to those games.  Your save files might be there.

This may be obvious, but you can do a search in Windows for the name of the game and look through the folders in the results.  Chances are the saves folder is inside one with the name of the game, which is what you'd turn up.

" I'm pretty sure you can load map from console.  "

" The games readme file should tell you where the save files are, if it doesn't then that's pretty stupid.  Why exactly do you need to reformat your PC so often?  "

" @Ahmad_Metallic: Is there anything in the game's own folder? Sometimes games are that simple, just a folder or save file wherever you installed them. "

" This may be obvious, but you can do a search in Windows for the name of the game and look through the folders in the results.  Chances are the saves folder is inside one with the name of the game, which is what you'd turn up. "

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I formatted lately and had to start all over again for most of the games, except steam games which are all on another drive.

"

" @Ahmad_Metallic: open console with tilde(~), enter con_restricted 0, then enter map mapname where mapname is the level that you want. You can find all of the names of the levels in your Crysis/Game/Levels folder.  "

" @Geno said:

" @Ahmad_Metallic: open console with tilde(~), enter con_restricted 0, then enter map mapname where mapname is the level that you want. You can find all of the names of the levels in your Crysis/Game/Levels folder.  "

i shall try it later, does it work for other games too? i wish i could skip all the canal bullshit in hl2 I WISHHHHHH "

" @HitmanAgent47 said:

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I formatted lately and had to start all over again for most of the games, except steam games which are all on another drive.

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Same here, really hate games that keep their data in My Documents because I usually install all my games on my D drive, while Windows is on C. I often forget to look their before formatting. "

" @Geno: My God! you rock. "

" @Geno: My God! you rock. "

" @Ahmad_Metallic said:

" @Geno: My God! you rock. "

Welcome to 2004! "

" @SeriouslyNow said:

" @Ahmad_Metallic said:

" @Geno: My God! you rock. "

Welcome to 2004! "

thanks, its like me to be there but not be there at the same time, you know ? "