Debug Profile Bug

[Brian Wankum]

Game hard crashed and when I launched it again I noticed all my saves were gone, upon looking into the situation I came across a fairly old/well known bug related to debug profiles. Problem is I'm not able to swap back to my default profile, anytime I delete the debug save it just comes back and puts me in there. I tried a couple older workarounds as I haven't been able to find any new ones and while it worked for a minute, as soon as I relaunched steam it just threw me right back into the debug profile.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Insomnia:

Debug Profile Bug
Game hard crashed and when I launched it again I noticed all my saves were gone, upon looking into the situation I came across a fairly old/well known bug related to debug profiles. Problem is I'm not able to swap back to my default profile, anytime I delete the debug save it just comes back and puts me in there. I tried a couple older workarounds as I haven't been able to find any new ones and while it worked for a minute, as soon as I relaunched steam it just threw me right back into the debug profile.

Do you have launch options or use a shortcut to start the game?

What workarounds are you talking about?

[Brian Wankum]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Insomnia:

Debug Profile Bug
Game hard crashed and when I launched it again I noticed all my saves were gone, upon looking into the situation I came across a fairly old/well known bug related to debug profiles. Problem is I'm not able to swap back to my default profile, anytime I delete the debug save it just comes back and puts me in there. I tried a couple older workarounds as I haven't been able to find any new ones and while it worked for a minute, as soon as I relaunched steam it just threw me right back into the debug profile.

Do you have launch options or use a shortcut to start the game?

What workarounds are you talking about?

I've used both the shortcut and the game from the steam library itself, the workarounds were creating/deleting folders/having them overwrite eachother, I'll post the link to the reddit thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/kc8bg0/force_quit_the_game_cant_load_saves/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

[Brian Wankum]

Originally posted by Insomnia:

Game hard crashed and when I launched it again I noticed all my saves were gone, upon looking into the situation I came across a fairly old/well known bug related to debug profiles. Problem is I'm not able to swap back to my default profile, anytime I delete the debug save it just comes back and puts me in there. I tried a couple older workarounds as I haven't been able to find any new ones and while it worked for a minute, as soon as I relaunched steam it just threw me right back into the debug profile.

Okay, deleting the debug profile and then restarting my PC SEEMS, to have fixed the issue. I booted the game back up and my default profile was there, restarted steam just in case and it seems to be fine for now. Not sure if this is a long term fix or not though.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Insomnia:

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Do you have launch options or use a shortcut to start the game?

What workarounds are you talking about?

I've used both the shortcut and the game from the steam library itself, the workarounds were creating/deleting folders/having them overwrite eachother, I'll post the link to the reddit thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldursGate3/comments/kc8bg0/force_quit_the_game_cant_load_saves/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Originally posted by Insomnia:

Originally posted by Insomnia:

Game hard crashed and when I launched it again I noticed all my saves were gone, upon looking into the situation I came across a fairly old/well known bug related to debug profiles. Problem is I'm not able to swap back to my default profile, anytime I delete the debug save it just comes back and puts me in there. I tried a couple older workarounds as I haven't been able to find any new ones and while it worked for a minute, as soon as I relaunched steam it just threw me right back into the debug profile.

Okay, deleting the debug profile and then restarting my PC SEEMS, to have fixed the issue. I booted the game back up and my default profile was there, restarted steam just in case and it seems to be fine for now. Not sure if this is a long term fix or not though.

It should be okay now.

From everything you wrote it sounds very much like the game's process did not close properly, and then started always the debug profile - because that one would normally only start when there is already the first one active.

And then when you restarted it actually resolves the issue by closing all processes correctly.

I hope the issue will not arise again for you. Good luck!

[Master Lefty]

I can confirm restarting PC after deleting the debug profile folder worked. Without restarting first, BG3 would auto-create and assign the debug profile.

Thanks mate.

[jims]

Heads up - for those using mods - if it swaps to the debug profile, the mods won't load. So even copying the save games won't work, as it still won't access the mods, probably would crash due to save game incompatibility

[jims]

Restarting my computer has not solved the issue either. First restart, debug recreated.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by jims:

Heads up - for those using mods - if it swaps to the debug profile, the mods won't load. So even copying the save games won't work, as it still won't access the mods, probably would crash due to save game incompatibility

Originally posted by jims:

Restarting my computer has not solved the issue either. First restart, debug recreated.

Do not use mods if you do not understand them. For mods related issues consult the mods authors.

[jims]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by jims:

Heads up - for those using mods - if it swaps to the debug profile, the mods won't load. So even copying the save games won't work, as it still won't access the mods, probably would crash due to save game incompatibility

Originally posted by jims:

Restarting my computer has not solved the issue either. First restart, debug recreated.

Do not use mods if you do not understand them. For mods related issues consult the mods authors.

Started before I tried using mods sunshine, love people who comment without checking the facts - your answer was NOT helpful

[jims]

To clarify - the bug was happening and despite it being a pain I got used to opening the profiles and copying across save files. THEN I tried mods, and found they only applied to the Public profile, making it impossible to use them. The bug started before I installed mods.

[Budder]

To fix this permanently, (if you're still having problems, specifically on windows.), you will first need to make a copy of all your saves.
To do so, go into file explorer, and type in the file address bar, %localappdata%, this will take you to the Local file in AppData. Once there, locate the "Larian Studios" folder, then follow these.
'Baldur's Gate 3' ---> 'PlayerProfiles' ---> 'Public' ---> 'Savegames' ---> 'Story'.
In Story, you will find all your saved games. I would recommend just copying the Story file, and pasting it in a new folder on your C: drive.

Now that you have done that, Uninstall Baldur's Gate 3 on steam, and delete the "Larian Studios" folder that's inside %localappdata%, now you can re-install BG3, and copy-paste the saves from your Story folder to the new one. If the story folder doesn't exist, boot up the game, then close it without making a new save, and it should appear.

Now that you've done that, it should be fixed, While reinstalling the game may take awhile, If none of the other solutions worked, I would try this before you quit playing.

(I wrote this because I tried basically all the solutions to fix it, but even after I thought I got it working, it still popped back up after booting up the game once. After doing this, the problem hasn't popped up once.)
P.S. if you're worried about changed key binds and want to keep them, you can also copy the the 'inputconfig_p1' file in the 'Public' folder and replace it when you reinstall the game, it will save all your keybinds.
You can try to just copy-paste the whole 'Public' folder once you re-install, but make sure to delete the Debug profile first. I'm not sure if it'll work, but there's a chance if you want to try it. Imo it's safer to just copy the saves.

Hope this helps!

edit: Make sure to delete the Larian Studios, or atleast Baldur's Gate 3 folder before re-installing the game, or the Debug file might pop back up.

[Mr. Kent]

Originally posted by Melancholic Melvin:

Originally posted by Insomnia:

Game hard crashed and when I launched it again I noticed all my saves were gone, upon looking into the situation I came across a fairly old/well known bug related to debug profiles. Problem is I'm not able to swap back to my default profile, anytime I delete the debug save it just comes back and puts me in there. I tried a couple older workarounds as I haven't been able to find any new ones and while it worked for a minute, as soon as I relaunched steam it just threw me right back into the debug profile.

Okay, deleting the debug profile and then restarting my PC SEEMS, to have fixed the issue. I booted the game back up and my default profile was there, restarted steam just in case and it seems to be fine for now. Not sure if this is a long term fix or not though.

Thank you this fixed it