Honour Mode Save Disappeared

[Reaps]

I just started the game and wanted to continue my Honour mode Run.
But before loading the save game i got into the settings and turned down the max. quick safe states to save some space.
But when i left the settings and wanted to load my save it just wasnt there.
(When closing Honour mode the game saves itself so i think it was a normal save game)

So did i just accidentaly delete my Save game? Is there a way to get back my Save?

[Toppkek]

I found a fix by reaching out to Larian Support because I tried all these fixes and none of them work.

If you browse to the 'C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Larian Studios' folder and rename the 'Baldur's Gate 3' subfolder. The easiest way to get there would be to copy the following line into the location bar in Explorer and hit Enter: %LocalAppData%\Larian Studios

This folder contains the saved games, configuration files and a level cache folder. Deleting or renaming it will get the game to recreate it on startup.

This is the only thing that fixed it for me.

[MEAT HUSK]

Originally posted by Toppkek:

I found a fix by reaching out to Larian Support because I tried all these fixes and none of them work.

If you browse to the 'C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Larian Studios' folder and rename the 'Baldur's Gate 3' subfolder. The easiest way to get there would be to copy the following line into the location bar in Explorer and hit Enter: %LocalAppData%\Larian Studios

This folder contains the saved games, configuration files and a level cache folder. Deleting or renaming it will get the game to recreate it on startup.

This is the only thing that fixed it for me.

HUGE MASSIVE THANK YOU MY FRIEND. I was in house of hope- around 80 hours into my save, when my game crashed and ate my save. and this advice saved it. My gratitude to you <3

[Kabelcar]

I dunno if anyone needs this, but I just happened upon this problem today and could not find the answer on this thread, but it definitely helped me find my way there.
Basically I turned off steam cloud saves in the settings of my account, but obviously that doesn't delete the already (most likely corrupted) file.
To fix this, I went to the view steam cloud option on my web browser and went into the baldur's gate 3 file on their server.
I found the cloud save there, copied the honor mode.lsv file from there, deleted the one on my computer which our friend reaper told us how to get to, and then replaced it with the steam cloud backup version in the same folder.
Then i turned back on cloud sync, restarted pc for good measure, and viola it was back.,

[From Nothing]

Eveolyte and recjawjind, thank you both. I was in Act 3, about to level up, and lost my save for some reason. I read through this thread and went to https://store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage
to retrieve the latest honour save file. When I accessed my story saves, something I noticed was the honour save .Webp file would NORMALLY show a picture of where I had saved, but for my (presumably) corrupted save it didn't. When I uploaded the cloud save that I downloaded from the above link, I booted up bg3 and no luck... closed it, went into the story files again, and the .Webp image was back! I booted up bg3 again (with seemingly no change from the previous boot) and it worked this second time. Not sure why it took starting it up multiple times, but it eventually worked, and I didn't lose the progress. Thank you both

[Raven]

Originally posted by Recjawjind:

Originally posted by Reaps:

Yes im using steam cloud and i already made a backup.
I also let steam check the game files for any errors and the game seems to be normal

Hm, it's worth a try but I can't guarantee success..
Start a new honour mode campaign, then immediately after making it into the start of the tutorial, quit out. There should be a new folder in the file path i pointed you towards, replace both files in there with copies of the backup you made. Maybe that'll work, I don't know.

Hey so after I start the tutorial no new folder is being added, I went past the first imp fight and there's no save folder for it either. I have the save files from my lost save, it's just HonourMode.lsv and HonourMode.WebP (the .webp is a picture).

[hujniagranie]

Originally posted by Toppkek:

I found a fix by reaching out to Larian Support because I tried all these fixes and none of them work.

If you browse to the 'C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Larian Studios' folder and rename the 'Baldur's Gate 3' subfolder. The easiest way to get there would be to copy the following line into the location bar in Explorer and hit Enter: %LocalAppData%\Larian Studios

This folder contains the saved games, configuration files and a level cache folder. Deleting or renaming it will get the game to recreate it on startup.

This is the only thing that fixed it for me.

holy thank you dude, this worked 100%

[drdoctor]

Originally posted by misantronic:

I found a solution. Renaming the folder X:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Larian Studios to whatever the game will create a new one. Luckily, I got my save in the cloud so it will then create a new folder on startup and sync the saves. Alternatively, one could also just copy the file from the old folder there - should also work.

Dude - I did everything in this thread, and everything in every other thread, and nothing worked until I tried this. You are a God among men, please enjoy the reward.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by drdoctor:

Originally posted by misantronic:

I found a solution. Renaming the folder X:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Larian Studios to whatever the game will create a new one. Luckily, I got my save in the cloud so it will then create a new folder on startup and sync the saves. Alternatively, one could also just copy the file from the old folder there - should also work.

Dude - I did everything in this thread, and everything in every other thread, and nothing worked until I tried this. You are a God among men, please enjoy the reward.

There is an alternative if not even that works.

[Astarte]

Had the same issue, really freaked out, honour mode, sudden blackout, no "Continue" button. Here's how I got everything back:

1) Disable Steam Cloud for Bg3 ;
2) MANUALLY download your save file from Steam Cloud. Login from your browser to access files. It will have a weird long name, it's ok ;
store.steampowered.com/account/remotestorage
3) Open your savefile folder in the C/Users/(username)/AppData/Local/Larian Studios/Baldur's Gate 3/PlayerProfiles/Public/SavedGames/Story/(a bunch of numbers, HonourMode at the end). You may need to activate "show hidden files" to reach this folder ;
4) Rename your weird-named DOWNLOADED save file into HonourMode.lsv and replace the one in the folder ;
5) Go to your STEAM folder Steam/userdata/108249446/1086940/remote/_SAVE_Public/Savegames/Story/(Again a bunch of numbers, HonourMode at the end)
I either deleted or replaced the savefile with the downloaded one here, one of the two. I believe I deleted it ;
6) Launch the game, save appeares back ;
7) Load the save, and SAVE AGAIN. For me, there were no issues at all, no corruption or achievement cancel ;
8) Turn the Steam Cloud for Bg3 back, it will say error for half a minute, then it will say that there's a mismatch, and give an option, which files to use to synchronize. Choose to upload from your PC, but only AFTER you saved again in the game ;

You're welcome

[AlmondMilk2590]

Originally posted by Toppkek:

I found a fix by reaching out to Larian Support because I tried all these fixes and none of them work.

If you browse to the 'C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Larian Studios' folder and rename the 'Baldur's Gate 3' subfolder. The easiest way to get there would be to copy the following line into the location bar in Explorer and hit Enter: %LocalAppData%\Larian Studios

This folder contains the saved games, configuration files and a level cache folder. Deleting or renaming it will get the game to recreate it on startup.

This is the only thing that fixed it for me.

I love you thank you so much

[KILL3RKING]

Originally posted by Toppkek:

I found a fix by reaching out to Larian Support because I tried all these fixes and none of them work.

If you browse to the 'C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Larian Studios' folder and rename the 'Baldur's Gate 3' subfolder. The easiest way to get there would be to copy the following line into the location bar in Explorer and hit Enter: %LocalAppData%\Larian Studios

This folder contains the saved games, configuration files and a level cache folder. Deleting or renaming it will get the game to recreate it on startup.

This is the only thing that fixed it for me.

This helped me I typed %LocalAppData%\Larian Studios on search bar on pc it brought up my files and changed 'Baldur's Gate 3' to 'Baldur's Gate 4' started the game up again in steam it prompted me to update brightness and my save file was back and no longer showing custom/ and now loadable