How to backup your Grand Theft Auto IV saved games

Grand Theft Auto IV

If you search over the internet,  you’ll find a lot of different solutions to backup your GTA IV saved games. In my occasion (transfer from Windows XP 32-bit to Windows Vista 64-bit) the following worked perfectly:

  • Backup the entire “Rockstar Games” folder (your saved games) which is located in C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\ for Windows Vista and in C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Local Settings\Application Data\ for Windows XP.
  • Backup the “XLive” folder (your Microsoft Games for Windows – LIVE profile), located in C:\Users\<USERNAME>\AppData\Local\Microsoft (Windows Vista) or C:\Documents and Settings\<USERNAME>\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\
  • Install the game (including Microsoft Games for Windows – LIVE) and run it (so it can create the folders).
  • Find the new folders and replace them with your own.

Enjoy!

belongs to: games | posted on February, 2009

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there are 15 comments:

  1. Eslam, on February 14th, 2009 at 1:02 am, said:

    thanks alot

  2. Serene Johnson, on April 12th, 2009 at 6:21 am, said:

    Its a little different if you are using Vista Ultimate…
    Go Here instead…
    C:\Users\>\Documents\Rockstar Games

    Copy the GTA-IV folder over, and voila!

  3. chrizz, on October 17th, 2009 at 1:24 pm, said:

    @Serene Johnson: bullshit

  4. Aslo, on November 13th, 2009 at 1:13 pm, said:

    Fake! Dont working!!!!!

  5. burNMind, on November 13th, 2009 at 8:11 pm, said:

    @Aslo: Can you be more specific? It’s definitely working from Windows XP 32-bit to Windows Vista 64-bit.

  6. jp, on November 27th, 2009 at 10:06 am, said:

    i just built a new pc, and i’m soon going to try this for win7-64 to win7-64. hope it works… it must work…

  7. Muro, on November 27th, 2009 at 10:22 pm, said:

    I did it with Win-XP 64 to Win-XP 64 (reinstall) and it works for sure.

  8. Mike, on December 2nd, 2009 at 4:09 pm, said:

    It works, but I must go through intro then Load the game. Is there a fix to this?

  9. Mike, on December 2nd, 2009 at 4:16 pm, said:

    Hot damn, it works. I transfered from my Desktop (Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit) to my Laptop (Windows Vista Home 64 bit) This was a test because my desktop is f’d up and I must reinstall the OS and i am just upgrading to Windows 7. The second time I loaded the game it loaded the updated game fine. No problem. Thank you for this. And for all of those who think transferring your game is hard, it is not. I have the Online GTA Live account BTW.

  10. Dafinoiu Andrei, on January 10th, 2010 at 1:34 am, said:

    None of these solutions work for me. I reinstaled my windows 7 and i copied the xlive folder and the rockstar folder but still does not work. Does it have something to do with me having an offline windows account?

  11. petros, on January 13th, 2010 at 7:58 pm, said:

    i run win xp sp3 gr language home edition32 bit.
    i cant find the folderlocal settings :(
    if someone can help me i would really appreciate it.

  12. x, on February 20th, 2010 at 4:59 pm, said:

    works on win7 with another xbox.live-game (bioshock2)…

  13. Maria Rogers, on June 30th, 2010 at 8:14 am, said:

    Grand Theft Auto is so damn addicting game. I play 8 hours a day of GTA.”.”

  14. Charlie Wilson, on July 21st, 2010 at 5:16 am, said:

    the latest version of Grand Theft Auto have more detail on its graphics, nicely done.*“

  15. Niamh Carter, on September 6th, 2010 at 10:29 am, said:

    i used to play Grand Theft Auto a lot but i kind of got busy these days so i dont play it anymore-.’

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