My friend loves this game but..

[Krude]

it keeps corrupting his save quite often. making him lose all progress.

Is there a mod out there that can fix this by making copies of save files in a way so that he's got a ton of saves he can try to revert to if this stuff happens?

[LordNibbler]

You don't need a mod (that I don't think exists), you can just simply copy your save folder yourself.

You can find that in: c:\Users\<your.username>\AppData\Local\Larian Studios\
...just copy either the whole "Baldur's Gate 3" folder or only the "PlayerProfiles" folder (that contains the actual save files) under that BG3 folder.

Btw, I have accumulated well over 640 saves and not ever had a problem with a corrupted save game... your friend may check the hard drive and/or RAM to see if there's a technical problem.

[Wokelander]

Yeah corrupted saves is likely an indicator of faulty hardware

[Krude]

Originally posted by Khorvale:

Yeah corrupted saves is likely an indicator of faulty hardware

I dunno, I used to have the same issue with divinity 2, he's having the issue with this.

corrupted saves aren't an issue for us in anything else over years, tho I've got a new computer.

I'd say it's more likely something in the way the dev does something.

also I'll preface this, please if you or anyone else is here to defend the devs in some weird showcase of love and loyalty, just go do something else, I really don't want to hear that level of bs.


It's not them, it's the game.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/15jwmlv/corrupted_saves/

I'm only here asking because my friend loves this game and he's going through a very hard time atm.

my tolerance for people who want to try to push issues a game has for some people as being the fault of the user, as if most of us haven't been gaming for years and can test if it's our end, is at it's lowest.

People like that just waste time that we'll never get back, if you don't want to work the problem, then at least don't get in the way.

hardware failure... gtfo dude.

I make pcs, it's not that.

[Chaosolous]

It's called the F5 button. Save often and set the allowed saves to a higher number. I think it's like 25 by default. Crank it to 100 or whatever. If something gets ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up in a save, reload to an earlier one until it's not there anymore.

You're not specific when you say corrupted. That either means the data is unreadable and legit will just CTD with error or you mean he encountered a bug.

Manually backup your saves. There's no need for a mod.

EDIT:

Don't dismiss a hardware issue out of hand. Objectively it could be a possible reason for it.

[Nekonoaijin]

Despite your screed about white-knighting, this has nothing to do with that. If it is actual corruption and he has not modified the game, it's a hardware issue.

If he has modified the game, it *could* be something a modification is doing, but it is still more likely to be a hardware issue, as you'd expect to see other users reporting the same issue with that particular modification as well.

Edit: It's incredibly common for people to have underlying issues with memory corruption but be largely unaware, as most of the software is going to be pretty tolerant of subtle changes. BG3 is using a very large memory set, making it a larger target, and is also not going to be tolerant of even minor changes, if they alter an important value, cause a checksum calculation to fail, etc. It could also be his storage but that is far less likely, on the whole.

[Wokelander]

Originally posted by Krude:

Originally posted by Khorvale:

Yeah corrupted saves is likely an indicator of faulty hardware

I dunno, I used to have the same issue with divinity 2, he's having the issue with this.

corrupted saves aren't an issue for us in anything else over years, tho I've got a new computer.

I'd say it's more likely something in the way the dev does something.

also I'll preface this, please if you or anyone else is here to defend the devs in some weird showcase of love and loyalty, just go do something else, I really don't want to hear that level of bs.


It's not them, it's the game.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/15jwmlv/corrupted_saves/

I'm only here asking because my friend loves this game and he's going through a very hard time atm.

my tolerance for people who want to try to push issues a game has for some people as being the fault of the user, as if most of us haven't been gaming for years and can test if it's our end, is at it's lowest.

People like that just waste time that we'll never get back, if you don't want to work the problem, then at least don't get in the way.

hardware failure... gtfo dude.

I make pcs, it's not that.

Do you need a time-out perhaps? You seem angry

[Krude]

Originally posted by Chaosolous:

It's called the F5 button. Save often and set the allowed saves to a higher number. I think it's like 25 by default. Crank it to 100 or whatever. If something gets ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up in a save, reload to an earlier one until it's not there anymore.

You're not specific when you say corrupted. That either means the data is unreadable and legit will just CTD with error or you mean he encountered a bug.

Manually backup your saves. There's no need for a mod.

EDIT:

Don't dismiss a hardware issue out of hand. Objectively it could be a possible reason for it.

Told him that, but he says all the saves get corrupted, not just one. It's really strange. That's why i'm hoping for a mod or something that can independantly save the savefiles, as I think the game is corrupting them somehow.

I also worry that your suggestion only works for people who play a certain way, some people do play the honour mode and I think that only allows one save?


As for dismissing the hardware issue, I've looked at the event logs, run tests on his pc, etc

It's pretty ridiculous to call out the hardware as the first possible issue when in reality, in this day and age, hardware caused issues like this are a lot rarer than other possible issues.

If a ship is sinking, do you check if the shipwright made it wrong or to you point to the unlikeness that the sea decided to become sentient and invade it?

You clearly go for what's most likely. Hardware is the least likely reason for this, a faulty sdd or hdd, a badly set cpu, failing ram, etc

Are unlikely, instead of wasting peoples time, I did the tests, it's not that...

take my word on it.

and if not that, take the word of other people on the internet who have had the issue, like the person who can't open a single file save after 101 hours played, or this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/15jwmlv/corrupted_saves/jxqh40s/

I'm going to piss off some people by saying this but:

It's clearly an issue with the game/dev and it's more common with them than other devs, it's an issue with their divinity engine most likely, because I myself experienced this issue in divinity origin 2. I make my own pc's, I test the ♥♥♥♥ out of them, I know when it's a hardware issue, I have never experienced a corrupt save in decades.

The devs engine is flawed.

Also this issue is reported on ps5 too.

So yeah, let's be real, hardware issue isn't the cause... let's say it's safe to move on from that as a possible thing? because if so it's evaded me finding anything that could cause it.

And the weight of evidence to it being the devs fault, pretty solid at this point.

[Krude]

Originally posted by Khorvale:

Originally posted by Krude:

I dunno, I used to have the same issue with divinity 2, he's having the issue with this.

corrupted saves aren't an issue for us in anything else over years, tho I've got a new computer.

I'd say it's more likely something in the way the dev does something.

also I'll preface this, please if you or anyone else is here to defend the devs in some weird showcase of love and loyalty, just go do something else, I really don't want to hear that level of bs.


It's not them, it's the game.

https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/15jwmlv/corrupted_saves/

I'm only here asking because my friend loves this game and he's going through a very hard time atm.

my tolerance for people who want to try to push issues a game has for some people as being the fault of the user, as if most of us haven't been gaming for years and can test if it's our end, is at it's lowest.

People like that just waste time that we'll never get back, if you don't want to work the problem, then at least don't get in the way.

hardware failure... gtfo dude.

I make pcs, it's not that.

Do you need a time-out perhaps? You seem angry

Empty words from someone who can't do what they are threatening to do, move on and waste other peoples time not ours.

[Wokelander]

Originally posted by Krude:

Originally posted by Khorvale:

Do you need a time-out perhaps? You seem angry

Empty words from someone who can't do what they are threatening to do, move on and waste other peoples time not ours.

For a person asking for help you're oddly hostile towards the advice you're receiving. If there's a specific answer your fishing for maybe you should just let us know what it is.
Also you may need to work on your reading comprehension.

Anyway, I think I have about 500-600 hours combined in BG3 and DOS2 on 3 different computers and have never experienced save game corruption nor have the group of people I played the games with.

[Nekonoaijin]

Originally posted by Khorvale:

Originally posted by Krude:

Empty words from someone who can't do what they are threatening to do, move on and waste other peoples time not ours.

For a person asking for help you're oddly hostile towards the advice you're receiving. If there's a specific answer your fishing for maybe you sgkuld just let us know what it is.
Also you may need to work on your reading comprehension.

Anyway, I think I have about 500-600 hours combined in BG3 and DOS2 on 3 different computers and have never experienced save game corruption nor have the group of people I played the games with.

I've honestly never had corrupted saves in any game, even FO4 with a bunch of modifications.

[Bender B. Rodriguez]

Originally posted by Krude:

it keeps corrupting his save quite often. making him lose all progress.

Is there a mod out there that can fix this by making copies of save files in a way so that he's got a ton of saves he can try to revert to if this stuff happens?

He's probably getting corrupted saves because he's using a mod. Delete all the mods and start over.

[Wokelander]

Originally posted by Nekonoaijin:

Originally posted by Khorvale:

For a person asking for help you're oddly hostile towards the advice you're receiving. If there's a specific answer your fishing for maybe you sgkuld just let us know what it is.
Also you may need to work on your reading comprehension.

Anyway, I think I have about 500-600 hours combined in BG3 and DOS2 on 3 different computers and have never experienced save game corruption nor have the group of people I played the games with.

I've honestly never had corrupted saves in any game, even FO4 with a bunch of modifications.

I feel like I've had it happen to me at least once in ~35 years of gaming. Probably back when floppy disks was a thing 😆

[LordNibbler]

Oh I see... I just had the thought "did anyone mention already if he uses mods" but apparently this thread is not about the issue anymore but has already "devolved into non-productive arguments". Now I feel kinda stupid as I took this serious.

Btw. those Reddit threads are 3-4 months old already, the game had like 4 patches and 7 hotfixes in the meantime (and they agreed that whatever they did helped), so they aren't exactly good examples.

Anyway, please continue with what you were doing.

[Nekonoaijin]

Originally posted by Khorvale:

Originally posted by Nekonoaijin:

I've honestly never had corrupted saves in any game, even FO4 with a bunch of modifications.

I feel like I've had it happen to me at least once in ~35 years of gaming. Probably back when floppy disks was a thing 😆

I never had it happen then ... per se ... I did lose a few floppies over the years to bit rot, though, including one or two that had Daggerfall saves on them. That *might* count ... but not really, I'd say.

[Krude]

Originally posted by Bender B. Rodriguez:

Originally posted by Krude:

it keeps corrupting his save quite often. making him lose all progress.

Is there a mod out there that can fix this by making copies of save files in a way so that he's got a ton of saves he can try to revert to if this stuff happens?

He's probably getting corrupted saves because he's using a mod. Delete all the mods and start over.

afraid not, he isn't using any mods :(