I have to "exit" the game to "load" a game?

I think there must be an easier way than havin to actually exit the game when I want to load a game, what step am I missing here?

1. I start up the game, and then choose to load up a game. (I find I loaded the wrong game save, so I would like to load the right game save).

2. I exit to the main menu, and choose the "Load/Save" button again.

3. It no longer lists "load" as an option, it's now got womething like "wait" in it's place.

First load screen:

First Load game screen

Quit to Main Menu:

Exit back to main menu screen

Try to load up a different game save:

As you can see above, the "Load" option is now missing and replaced with a "Wait" button of which I think if I press it, it trys to save the game, because I tried it once and the game then asked me if Im sure I wanted to overwrite the game file.

At this point I have to exit the TPM 08 completely and restart it, just so that I can choose to load up a different save file. It seems to me that really shouldn't work like that and I must be missing a step along the way that would make it work like 99.9% of all other games out there.

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The only thing I can think of is that the game is trying to tell me to "WAIT" for something, but I've sat there "Waiting" and nothing seems to happen. Which makes sence now that I look at the first and last screenshot, the only Wait button I can click on, is the one where the Save button use to be, so it's trying to overwrite the game when I click on that and the "load" button is a grayed out WAIT button.

This seems to be a very very sloppy way of doing this and should be corrected. Have a popup window appear instead to inform me what the game is really doing, i.e. what it's waiting on and what user input is necessary if any to help it along.

Thanks

P.S. In the options panel, I chose to use the icons (you know included in patch 1.4 for slower machines to see if that would help me out in the selection bug in the game) and when I loaded up the saved game, 95% of all items were no longer on the map. I quit the game and chose to go back to viewing the game in the normal method, and reloaded up a saved game and the items were still missing from the map. My guess is that either the game save is corrupt, or the use Icons options has messed up the game save. All I know is that 95% of the objects that were on the map prior, are no longer there, and no longer listed in the assets list that I get to when clicking on the assets button plastered across my bobbleheads image in the lower left corner of the screen when playing the game.

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Okay, the work around for this, would be the following:

Instead of quitting the game, click on the Quick Play button (the top most button on the main menu), when you get to the first screen, click the back button in the lower left corner of the screen to take you back to the main menu, then click the "Load" button and you should see the normal Load screen window instead of the "Wait" screen window.

My guess is that the game doesn't dump the game being played when going from the game to the main menu, but when you click on something like the quick play button it does.

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I have the same problem, it's quite irritating. But at least TPM08 opens quickly when you quit and then load. I've had games over the years where it took a good 3-4 minutes just to load (though I really shouldn't have been playing them on the machines I had )

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