Lost all my saves

[Amorzinho]

Turned off the mods and even my modless saves were gone.
THANKS LARIAN

[birdiepfft]

same here. can't start new games; uninstalled and reinstalled; opening a new game takes me to a screen where there's four white men, four black men, and dark urge in the centre and all i can do is punch each other lol

[Ironwu]

Not a Larian Studios problem.

Just turning Mods off may not be sufficient.

Your Saves are probably all still there. Just not being displayed.

Don't Panic.

[bakadesu_ka]

Try delete dwrite.dll from bin folder, this help me.

[Ironwu]

This is where your saves are stored:

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3\PlayerProfiles\Public\Savegames\Story

You can check there to see if they are there. Back them up if they are.

[Evangeline]

if using BG3 Mod Manager, delete all mods and not just make them inactive

I think I read something similar once, and yes the solution was to

Originally posted by bakadesu_ka:

Try delete dwrite.dll from bin folder, this help me.

[birdiepfft]

Originally posted by Ironwu:

This is where your saves are stored:

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3\PlayerProfiles\Public\Savegames\Story

You can check there to see if they are there. Back them up if they are.

gonna backup and try to check if i've deleted every trace of a mod i've got. i think i've done it but i might still have issues. i realise i don't have "saves completely disappeared" issue but i can't interact with anything other than corpses so i guess patch 6 broke me lol

[Ironwu]

Originally posted by birdiepfft:

Originally posted by Ironwu:

This is where your saves are stored:

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Local\Larian Studios\Baldur's Gate 3\PlayerProfiles\Public\Savegames\Story

You can check there to see if they are there. Back them up if they are.

gonna backup and try to check if i've deleted every trace of a mod i've got. i think i've done it but i might still have issues. i realise i don't have "saves completely disappeared" issue but i can't interact with anything other than corpses so i guess patch 6 broke me lol

The reason you want to back up your saves is that in some Mod corruption cases, the entire Larian Studios folder there will need to be deleted. Mods can change a number of files outside of themselves.

The Larian Studios folder in AppData is persistent across BG3 uninstall/reinstall cycles. And, unfortunately, that is where Mods live and work. So they and their changes persist as well.

[Evangeline]

Originally posted by birdiepfft:

but i can't interact with anything other than corpses

The Sixth Sense 2

[birdiepfft]

Originally posted by Ironwu:

Originally posted by birdiepfft:

gonna backup and try to check if i've deleted every trace of a mod i've got. i think i've done it but i might still have issues. i realise i don't have "saves completely disappeared" issue but i can't interact with anything other than corpses so i guess patch 6 broke me lol

The reason you want to back up your saves is that in some Mod corruption cases, the entire Larian Studios folder there will need to be deleted. Mods can change a number of files outside of themselves.

The Larian Studios folder in AppData is persistent across BG3 uninstall/reinstall cycles. And, unfortunately, that is where Mods live and work. So they and their changes persist as well.

at this point i've accepted that i'm willing to restart from the ground up; do i need to delete the entire larian studios folder in my appdata? thanks for your help so far by the way

[Evangeline]

Originally posted by Ironwu:

Mods can change a number of files outside of themselves.

Mods can even change your Bitcoin wallet

[Ironwu]

Originally posted by birdiepfft:

Originally posted by Ironwu:

The reason you want to back up your saves is that in some Mod corruption cases, the entire Larian Studios folder there will need to be deleted. Mods can change a number of files outside of themselves.

The Larian Studios folder in AppData is persistent across BG3 uninstall/reinstall cycles. And, unfortunately, that is where Mods live and work. So they and their changes persist as well.

at this point i've accepted that i'm willing to restart from the ground up; do i need to delete the entire larian studios folder in my appdata? thanks for your help so far by the way

There is a long and arduous process for deleting individual parts. But I think it is convoluted and easily done incompletely. Here is what I would do to recover:

* Turn BG3 Cloud Saves OFF
* Uninstall BG3
* Manually delete the Larian Studios folder in AppData
* Reinstall BG3
* Copy your Saves back into the Story folder

It is possible that the Saves themselves might be unusable. But it is worth a try and only takes a few minutes to check out. :)

[birdiepfft]

Originally posted by Ironwu:

Originally posted by birdiepfft:

at this point i've accepted that i'm willing to restart from the ground up; do i need to delete the entire larian studios folder in my appdata? thanks for your help so far by the way

There is a long and arduous process for deleting individual parts. But I think it is convoluted and easily done incompletely. Here is what I would do to recover:

* Turn BG3 Cloud Saves OFF
* Uninstall BG3
* Manually delete the Larian Studios folder in AppData
* Reinstall BG3
* Copy your Saves back into the Story folder

It is possible that the Saves themselves might be unusable. But it is worth a try and only takes a few minutes to check out. :)

i'm willing to give it a shot! thanks for all your help. i'll keep you in the loop if it solves the issue for me or not. hope your baldurs gate playthrough is lovely and you romance all the characters you desire :D

[Ironwu]

Originally posted by birdiepfft:

Originally posted by Ironwu:

There is a long and arduous process for deleting individual parts. But I think it is convoluted and easily done incompletely. Here is what I would do to recover:

* Turn BG3 Cloud Saves OFF
* Uninstall BG3
* Manually delete the Larian Studios folder in AppData
* Reinstall BG3
* Copy your Saves back into the Story folder

It is possible that the Saves themselves might be unusable. But it is worth a try and only takes a few minutes to check out. :)

i'm willing to give it a shot! thanks for all your help. i'll keep you in the loop if it solves the issue for me or not. hope your baldurs gate playthrough is lovely and you romance all the characters you desire :D

Thanks. I will stay tuned to this thread to see how it goes. I keep telling Withers I am happy alone, but he is not listening I think! :)

[birdiepfft]

Originally posted by Ironwu:

Originally posted by birdiepfft:

i'm willing to give it a shot! thanks for all your help. i'll keep you in the loop if it solves the issue for me or not. hope your baldurs gate playthrough is lovely and you romance all the characters you desire :D

Thanks. I will stay tuned to this thread to see how it goes. I keep telling Withers I am happy alone, but he is not listening I think! :)

you're a godsend! starting a new game works right now; so i assume the save file is fine but i'll check on it later. thanks a lot! and i hope withers stops bothering you soon

[Ironwu]

Awesome!

Have Fun :)