Loading save in Multiplayer not possible, game gets stuck at 100% and Host-Game crashes.

[Farendan]

Hello!

So, I already made a bug report a week ago to Larian but I wanted to pick the Steam Forum's brain a little. Here's the situation (Aka. a copy paste from the Report):

My boyfriend and I ran into an issue where we cannot reload the game while doing a Multiplayer session. Once a reload with an active session is attempted, the game loads indefinitely. The background keeps switching in the load screen but nothing happens. We have let it run like this for over 10 minutes. We assume it is tied to the missing travellers Chest and/or my character (Vernon / Currently residing in Wither's Wardrobe) in the game.

This is a rather annoying issue as should we end up defeated in combat, we have to completely quit out of the game. Which is also how we became aware of this issue. The issue is consistent and seems to be tied to the save file. On other saves, the issues cannot be replicated. We are not using any mods.

What we tried to troubleshoot so far:
- Verify integrity of Cache via Steam -> no change
- Rename "Baldur's Gate 3" folder in Local Appdata to create an entirely fresh one -> no change
- Load and host the save from another system -> no change
- Remove my character from party -> Only loads until 75% on joining party's side then stays like that indefinitely. Host cannot switch maps anymore.
- A long rest -> no change
- Create a new quicksave and load it
-> no change
- Create a full new save and load it -> no change

Maybe someone here has an idea or two of things we can try out to fix that save as we'd prefer not having to go through everything again. (The saves were also uploaded in the report to Larian for testing purposes.)

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Farendan:

Loading save in Multiplayer not possible, game gets stuck at 100% and Host-Game crashes.
Hello!

So, I already made a bug report a week ago to Larian but I wanted to pick the Steam Forum's brain a little. Here's the situation (Aka. a copy paste from the Report):

My boyfriend and I ran into an issue where we cannot reload the game while doing a Multiplayer session. Once a reload with an active session is attempted, the game loads indefinitely. The background keeps switching in the load screen but nothing happens. We have let it run like this for over 10 minutes. We assume it is tied to the missing travellers Chest and/or my character (Vernon / Currently residing in Wither's Wardrobe) in the game.

This is a rather annoying issue as should we end up defeated in combat, we have to completely quit out of the game. Which is also how we became aware of this issue. The issue is consistent and seems to be tied to the save file. On other saves, the issues cannot be replicated. We are not using any mods.

What we tried to troubleshoot so far:
- Verify integrity of Cache via Steam -> no change
- Rename "Baldur's Gate 3" folder in Local Appdata to create an entirely fresh one -> no change
- Load and host the save from another system -> no change
- Remove my character from party -> Only loads until 75% on joining party's side then stays like that indefinitely. Host cannot switch maps anymore.
- A long rest -> no change
- Create a new quicksave and load it
-> no change
- Create a full new save and load it -> no change

Maybe someone here has an idea or two of things we can try out to fix that save as we'd prefer not having to go through everything again. (The saves were also uploaded in the report to Larian for testing purposes.)

Does the issue persists in a new campaign?

[Dr.Phoqueson]

Originally posted by Farendan:

Hello!

So, I already made a bug report a week ago to Larian but I wanted to pick the Steam Forum's brain a little. Here's the situation (Aka. a copy paste from the Report):

My boyfriend and I ran into an issue where we cannot reload the game while doing a Multiplayer session. Once a reload with an active session is attempted, the game loads indefinitely. The background keeps switching in the load screen but nothing happens. We have let it run like this for over 10 minutes. We assume it is tied to the missing travellers Chest and/or my character (Vernon / Currently residing in Wither's Wardrobe) in the game.

This is a rather annoying issue as should we end up defeated in combat, we have to completely quit out of the game. Which is also how we became aware of this issue. The issue is consistent and seems to be tied to the save file. On other saves, the issues cannot be replicated. We are not using any mods.

What we tried to troubleshoot so far:
- Verify integrity of Cache via Steam -> no change
- Rename "Baldur's Gate 3" folder in Local Appdata to create an entirely fresh one -> no change
- Load and host the save from another system -> no change
- Remove my character from party -> Only loads until 75% on joining party's side then stays like that indefinitely. Host cannot switch maps anymore.
- A long rest -> no change
- Create a new quicksave and load it
-> no change
- Create a full new save and load it -> no change

Maybe someone here has an idea or two of things we can try out to fix that save as we'd prefer not having to go through everything again. (The saves were also uploaded in the report to Larian for testing purposes.)

+1 we got the same issue, what we need is creating a new campaign, than we load an old save, and right after the loading is done, we load a recent savegame and it was working, but we don't know why, this morning, it's not working anymore

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Dr.Phoqueson:

Originally posted by Farendan:

Hello!

So, I already made a bug report a week ago to Larian but I wanted to pick the Steam Forum's brain a little. Here's the situation (Aka. a copy paste from the Report):

My boyfriend and I ran into an issue where we cannot reload the game while doing a Multiplayer session. Once a reload with an active session is attempted, the game loads indefinitely. The background keeps switching in the load screen but nothing happens. We have let it run like this for over 10 minutes. We assume it is tied to the missing travellers Chest and/or my character (Vernon / Currently residing in Wither's Wardrobe) in the game.

This is a rather annoying issue as should we end up defeated in combat, we have to completely quit out of the game. Which is also how we became aware of this issue. The issue is consistent and seems to be tied to the save file. On other saves, the issues cannot be replicated. We are not using any mods.

What we tried to troubleshoot so far:
- Verify integrity of Cache via Steam -> no change
- Rename "Baldur's Gate 3" folder in Local Appdata to create an entirely fresh one -> no change
- Load and host the save from another system -> no change
- Remove my character from party -> Only loads until 75% on joining party's side then stays like that indefinitely. Host cannot switch maps anymore.
- A long rest -> no change
- Create a new quicksave and load it
-> no change
- Create a full new save and load it -> no change

Maybe someone here has an idea or two of things we can try out to fix that save as we'd prefer not having to go through everything again. (The saves were also uploaded in the report to Larian for testing purposes.)

+1 we got the same issue, what we need is creating a new campaign, than we load an old save, and right after the loading is done, we load a recent savegame and it was working, but we don't know why, this morning, it's not working anymore

That is a typical levelcache issue if it works for you like that.

[Farendan]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Farendan:

Loading save in Multiplayer not possible, game gets stuck at 100% and Host-Game crashes.
Hello!

So, I already made a bug report a week ago to Larian but I wanted to pick the Steam Forum's brain a little. Here's the situation (Aka. a copy paste from the Report):

My boyfriend and I ran into an issue where we cannot reload the game while doing a Multiplayer session. Once a reload with an active session is attempted, the game loads indefinitely. The background keeps switching in the load screen but nothing happens. We have let it run like this for over 10 minutes. We assume it is tied to the missing travellers Chest and/or my character (Vernon / Currently residing in Wither's Wardrobe) in the game.

This is a rather annoying issue as should we end up defeated in combat, we have to completely quit out of the game. Which is also how we became aware of this issue. The issue is consistent and seems to be tied to the save file. On other saves, the issues cannot be replicated. We are not using any mods.

What we tried to troubleshoot so far:
- Verify integrity of Cache via Steam -> no change
- Rename "Baldur's Gate 3" folder in Local Appdata to create an entirely fresh one -> no change
- Load and host the save from another system -> no change
- Remove my character from party -> Only loads until 75% on joining party's side then stays like that indefinitely. Host cannot switch maps anymore.
- A long rest -> no change
- Create a new quicksave and load it
-> no change
- Create a full new save and load it -> no change

Maybe someone here has an idea or two of things we can try out to fix that save as we'd prefer not having to go through everything again. (The saves were also uploaded in the report to Larian for testing purposes.)

Does the issue persists in a new campaign?

Nope. It is tied to the save file / Campaign we started together. I suppose I should've said "on other campaigns, the issue cannot be replicated" rather than saves. I see how this could be misleading.

[Dr.Phoqueson]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Dr.Phoqueson:

+1 we got the same issue, what we need is creating a new campaign, than we load an old save, and right after the loading is done, we load a recent savegame and it was working, but we don't know why, this morning, it's not working anymore

That is a typical levelcache issue if it works for you like that.

You were right, I did follow this guide and now it's working :

this

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Farendan:

Hello!

So, I already made a bug report a week ago to Larian but I wanted to pick the Steam Forum's brain a little. Here's the situation (Aka. a copy paste from the Report):

My boyfriend and I ran into an issue where we cannot reload the game while doing a Multiplayer session. Once a reload with an active session is attempted, the game loads indefinitely. The background keeps switching in the load screen but nothing happens. We have let it run like this for over 10 minutes. We assume it is tied to the missing travellers Chest and/or my character (Vernon / Currently residing in Wither's Wardrobe) in the game.

This is a rather annoying issue as should we end up defeated in combat, we have to completely quit out of the game. Which is also how we became aware of this issue. The issue is consistent and seems to be tied to the save file. On other saves, the issues cannot be replicated. We are not using any mods.

What we tried to troubleshoot so far:
- Verify integrity of Cache via Steam -> no change
- Rename "Baldur's Gate 3" folder in Local Appdata to create an entirely fresh one -> no change
- Load and host the save from another system -> no change
- Remove my character from party -> Only loads until 75% on joining party's side then stays like that indefinitely. Host cannot switch maps anymore.
- A long rest -> no change
- Create a new quicksave and load it
-> no change
- Create a full new save and load it -> no change

Maybe someone here has an idea or two of things we can try out to fix that save as we'd prefer not having to go through everything again. (The saves were also uploaded in the report to Larian for testing purposes.)

I like to know details about this part:

Originally posted by Farendan:

We assume it is tied to the missing travellers Chest and/or my character (Vernon / Currently residing in Wither's Wardrobe) in the game.

Is the traveller's chest for any player missing?
And what do you mean in particular by "your character residing in Withers' Wardrobe"?
When you play together the character sure is not in the wardrobe at that time?

[Farendan]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Farendan:

Hello!

So, I already made a bug report a week ago to Larian but I wanted to pick the Steam Forum's brain a little. Here's the situation (Aka. a copy paste from the Report):

My boyfriend and I ran into an issue where we cannot reload the game while doing a Multiplayer session. Once a reload with an active session is attempted, the game loads indefinitely. The background keeps switching in the load screen but nothing happens. We have let it run like this for over 10 minutes. We assume it is tied to the missing travellers Chest and/or my character (Vernon / Currently residing in Wither's Wardrobe) in the game.

This is a rather annoying issue as should we end up defeated in combat, we have to completely quit out of the game. Which is also how we became aware of this issue. The issue is consistent and seems to be tied to the save file. On other saves, the issues cannot be replicated. We are not using any mods.

What we tried to troubleshoot so far:
- Verify integrity of Cache via Steam -> no change
- Rename "Baldur's Gate 3" folder in Local Appdata to create an entirely fresh one -> no change
- Load and host the save from another system -> no change
- Remove my character from party -> Only loads until 75% on joining party's side then stays like that indefinitely. Host cannot switch maps anymore.
- A long rest -> no change
- Create a new quicksave and load it
-> no change
- Create a full new save and load it -> no change

Maybe someone here has an idea or two of things we can try out to fix that save as we'd prefer not having to go through everything again. (The saves were also uploaded in the report to Larian for testing purposes.)

I like to know details about this part:

Originally posted by Farendan:

We assume it is tied to the missing travellers Chest and/or my character (Vernon / Currently residing in Wither's Wardrobe) in the game.

Is the traveller's chest for any player missing?
And what do you mean in particular by "your character residing in Withers' Wardrobe"?
When you play together the character sure is not in the wardrobe at that time?

Yes. Funny enough, the chest for the host is missing. While my character is out of the Wardrobe, aka. not dismisses, I can join but we cannot reload anymore. In that state, the one and only traveller's chest we have available, only works for me and my boyfriend cannot access it.

When I leave, he can access it, but none of my stored items show up.

When he dismisses my character and it is placed in the "wardrobe" I cannot join his game anymore. I get stuck at 75% on the loading screen and he is not allowed to switch maps anymore.<

What I assume is happening is, that when the second player joins in they take control of the singular traveller's chest we have. Upon reloading a save while playing together, the game might get confused about the access rights to the Traveller's chest and gets stuck somewhere. That's just an assumption though. I have no idea how to confirm that.

The loading behaviour with my character in the wardrobe I cannot explain at all.


...my character is a Warlock. Maybe I managed to piss of my patron. Lol.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Farendan:

Originally posted by アンジェル:

I like to know details about this part:



Is the traveller's chest for any player missing?
And what do you mean in particular by "your character residing in Withers' Wardrobe"?
When you play together the character sure is not in the wardrobe at that time?

Yes. Funny enough, the chest for the host is missing. While my character is out of the Wardrobe, aka. not dismisses, I can join but we cannot reload anymore. In that state, the one and only traveller's chest we have available, only works for me and my boyfriend cannot access it.

When I leave, he can access it, but none of my stored items show up.

When he dismisses my character and it is placed in the "wardrobe" I cannot join his game anymore. I get stuck at 75% on the loading screen and he is not allowed to switch maps anymore.<

What I assume is happening is, that when the second player joins in they take control of the singular traveller's chest we have. Upon reloading a save while playing together, the game might get confused about the access rights to the Traveller's chest and gets stuck somewhere. That's just an assumption though. I have no idea how to confirm that.

The loading behaviour with my character in the wardrobe I cannot explain at all.


...my character is a Warlock. Maybe I managed to piss of my patron. Lol.

You are not using any mods, are you?
Share your savegame and I check on the missing chest when I have time.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3043775090
In the meanwhile you could try and see if cleaning the cache as described in the guide linked by Dr.Phoqueson works for you:

Originally posted by Dr.Phoqueson:

Originally posted by アンジェル:

That is a typical levelcache issue if it works for you like that.

You were right, I did follow this guide and now it's working :

this

[Farendan]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Farendan:

Yes. Funny enough, the chest for the host is missing. While my character is out of the Wardrobe, aka. not dismisses, I can join but we cannot reload anymore. In that state, the one and only traveller's chest we have available, only works for me and my boyfriend cannot access it.

When I leave, he can access it, but none of my stored items show up.

When he dismisses my character and it is placed in the "wardrobe" I cannot join his game anymore. I get stuck at 75% on the loading screen and he is not allowed to switch maps anymore.<

What I assume is happening is, that when the second player joins in they take control of the singular traveller's chest we have. Upon reloading a save while playing together, the game might get confused about the access rights to the Traveller's chest and gets stuck somewhere. That's just an assumption though. I have no idea how to confirm that.

The loading behaviour with my character in the wardrobe I cannot explain at all.


...my character is a Warlock. Maybe I managed to piss of my patron. Lol.

You are not using any mods, are you?
Share your savegame and I check on the missing chest when I have time.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3043775090
In the meanwhile you could try and see if cleaning the cache as described in the guide linked by Dr.Phoqueson works for you:

Originally posted by Dr.Phoqueson:

You were right, I did follow this guide and now it's working :

this

Yeah, no mods. The cache also didn't help. That's one of the things we tried first.

I uploaded the savefile to file.io right here: https://file.io/OZCcCTl3jNMA

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Farendan:

Originally posted by アンジェル:

You are not using any mods, are you?
Share your savegame and I check on the missing chest when I have time.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3043775090
In the meanwhile you could try and see if cleaning the cache as described in the guide linked by Dr.Phoqueson works for you:

Yeah, no mods. The cache also didn't help. That's one of the things we tried first.

I uploaded the savefile to file.io right here: https://file.io/OZCcCTl3jNMA

After one hour of testing I can only find one issue: the common camp chest not recognised correctly issue. Nothing harmful as it appears in singleplayer as well.

Here is your savegame back with a workaround applied: https://file.io/KdCUV78gAhOt

It is not the best, but should resolve the issue of having only one chest available.

https://i.ibb.co/WP0Sppy/screenshot-1705524179.png
https://i.ibb.co/3FpPLpY/screenshot-1705524261.png

I have also tried testing reloading the game in singleplayer and multiplayer. No issues on my side. Give the savegame a go and check if it works better for you. If not then it might be worth to check on other things on your end as I cannot replicate the reload issues.

[Farendan]

Originally posted by アンジェル:

Originally posted by Farendan:

Yeah, no mods. The cache also didn't help. That's one of the things we tried first.

I uploaded the savefile to file.io right here: https://file.io/OZCcCTl3jNMA

After one hour of testing I can only find one issue: the common camp chest not recognised correctly issue. Nothing harmful as it appears in singleplayer as well.

Here is your savegame back with a workaround applied: https://file.io/KdCUV78gAhOt

It is not the best, but should resolve the issue of having only one chest available.

https://i.ibb.co/WP0Sppy/screenshot-1705524179.png
https://i.ibb.co/3FpPLpY/screenshot-1705524261.png

I have also tried testing reloading the game in singleplayer and multiplayer. No issues on my side. Give the savegame a go and check if it works better for you. If not then it might be worth to check on other things on your end as I cannot replicate the reload issues.

It's curious that it didn't happen on your end. It happens to my boyfriend and me regardless of who hosts.

I will try that save soonish.

Thank you for your help so far.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Farendan:

Originally posted by アンジェル:

After one hour of testing I can only find one issue: the common camp chest not recognised correctly issue. Nothing harmful as it appears in singleplayer as well.

Here is your savegame back with a workaround applied: https://file.io/KdCUV78gAhOt

It is not the best, but should resolve the issue of having only one chest available.

https://i.ibb.co/WP0Sppy/screenshot-1705524179.png
https://i.ibb.co/3FpPLpY/screenshot-1705524261.png

I have also tried testing reloading the game in singleplayer and multiplayer. No issues on my side. Give the savegame a go and check if it works better for you. If not then it might be worth to check on other things on your end as I cannot replicate the reload issues.

It's curious that it didn't happen on your end. It happens to my boyfriend and me regardless of who hosts.

I will try that save soonish.

Thank you for your help so far.

Depending on how you connect with each other, there can be different reasons why the reloading fails. Mostly as a result of desynchronisation. With certain hardware like ASUS mainboards it can be difficult, also with some internet service providers. I recommend using a VPN like Hamachi. The emulation of a VPN has proven to stabilise game connections for P2P games greatly. Also Hamachi is free for private usage, so it is worth a try,

[kT.GODominus]

This happens for me, on LAN, every single time on multiple campaigns

[Farendan]

I admittedly haven't gotten around to try the save anymore. It might be fixed but ultimately we just decided to play on our own since we got quite frustrated with troubleshooting. :(

[Yogi]

Originally posted by Farendan:

Hello!

So, I already made a bug report a week ago to Larian but I wanted to pick the Steam Forum's brain a little. Here's the situation (Aka. a copy paste from the Report):

My boyfriend and I ran into an issue where we cannot reload the game while doing a Multiplayer session. Once a reload with an active session is attempted, the game loads indefinitely. The background keeps switching in the load screen but nothing happens. We have let it run like this for over 10 minutes. We assume it is tied to the missing travellers Chest and/or my character (Vernon / Currently residing in Wither's Wardrobe) in the game.

This is a rather annoying issue as should we end up defeated in combat, we have to completely quit out of the game. Which is also how we became aware of this issue. The issue is consistent and seems to be tied to the save file. On other saves, the issues cannot be replicated. We are not using any mods.

What we tried to troubleshoot so far:
- Verify integrity of Cache via Steam -> no change
- Rename "Baldur's Gate 3" folder in Local Appdata to create an entirely fresh one -> no change
- Load and host the save from another system -> no change
- Remove my character from party -> Only loads until 75% on joining party's side then stays like that indefinitely. Host cannot switch maps anymore.
- A long rest -> no change
- Create a new quicksave and load it
-> no change
- Create a full new save and load it -> no change

Maybe someone here has an idea or two of things we can try out to fix that save as we'd prefer not having to go through everything again. (The saves were also uploaded in the report to Larian for testing purposes.)

Same exact issue here it is very annoying having to relaunch the game for me and my girlfriend every time we want to load an old save while we are playing. Which is often due to the amount of times we die or want to fix a mistake we made.