Autosave Bug?

[Nick Dipples]

Howdy,

Just booted the game up like normal - cheatless, modless, etc - after manually saving a closing. I did have to load the manual save, as RDR loaded a previous autosave of me post Valentine massacre that I didn't want to stick.

So I'm playing on the load, and now any time I do *anything* the game prompts me with Autosave Error, then asks me to manually overwrite the previous old autosave from five days ago. It's endless! I don't know what the issue is, but I'm not out of space or anything.

[HRRoach]

It is asking you to over wright the auto save since you loaded a new save.
1. Save the game you were playing
2. and then load the game save you want to play from,
3. Now you can say yes to over wright the auto save to save progress on the newly loaded old game file.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

It has to ask you if you want to over-write the autosave ever new game session; that is normal. Just press Enter of course. Never use the autosave anyways, its just part of the game. Save manually often.

[HRRoach]

If you don't use autosave in story mode it will continue to prompt you. You want to use it in story mode, but it doesn't hurt to manually save too. Before you accept a new mission is a good time, however you can also always replay missions.

Just remember loading a manual save will cause it to ask you to overwrite the auto save where you left off at. Say yes because you took my advice and manually saved the game before loading your stored save and want to continue with the new autosaves as you progress.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Never want to actually ever use the autosave to load your game from.
Manual save as often as needed. Any time you are finding stuff or loading up pelts on your horse, save to your own slot. There is alot to do in the game outside of story missions. Many side quests and random encounters and so you'll want to save often as you move around and such.

[HRRoach]

Just sleep when you finish something, and before you close the game. There is no way to stop it from saving your progress automatically. Starting right back where you were when you last played. I see no reason not to do it that way. Auto save will occur anyway. If your storage space is huge save it manually every time a leaf falls, happy fun.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

I what I mean is, delete the autosave.
In fact if you want, just turn autosave off completely.

[HRRoach]

It is a matter of preference, i get done playing take a nap, leave game, come back and it is right where i was when i went to sleep. Easy peazy. But i guess i need the watch my space on my hard drives so I have manual saves after each chapter or when I have a choice that might mean death. Let autosave work like a swap drive that keep game as current as possible by sleeping every day. That's me, but hear you clearly, interesting method, find your way and enjoy the game. I don't find the option to delete autosave or turn it off, that is how i came to do it like i do. I prefer it though now.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Well again, get in the habbit of manually saving often.
And helps to save before you exit the game as well, this way your manual save that you do want to actually use, is the most recent save. If you allow autosave and that saves most recent, then you exit the game or exit story mode; next time you load story mode its going to load that autosave since it was the most recent save to date.

[HRRoach]

Yes, you want to pick up where you left off. So go to a bed and sleep when you get up you can leave the game and that's where you start. Where you left off at.... Just be careful not to pitch camp near the rivers or beaches,

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by HRRoach:

Yes, you want to pick up where you left off. So go to a bed and sleep when you get up you can leave the game and that's where you start. Where you left off at.... Just be careful not to pitch camp near the rivers or beaches,

That's just you personal way of doing things. As what your method is doing is updating the autosave.

What I'm saying is F the autosave, go and delete it.
Then manually save to your own slot before game exit.
The autosave will get recreated again at a later time anyways.

[HRRoach]

Like i said, personal preference. I get what your saying but it isn't what my preference is and that's what I have been saying all along.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Instead of doing something in-game that would update the autosave, why not just press ESC > Story > Save prior to exiting the game?

Plus its helpful to save manually and often as well just in case you run into a problem, something in the game happens you can't undo, a game crash, etc.

[HRRoach]

Yes i totally agree with using manual saves to back up your game after great achievements, the reason I prefer to sleep to save the game where it is at before i leave is that every time you load from a saved game, it overwrites autosave, which is the posters original issue was the prompt asking about whether to allow autosave to be overwritten or not, with no option for not. So loading a save file you must still answer the question to overwright. This is why I told the poster to save the current game, because loading another save will overwright progress on his current game unless saved manually. Anyway the game takes long enough to start up and get to where you can load a save game, for me it is more convenient to come back to game and pick it up where i left off. But everyone is entitled to their own preference.... Anytime you sleep, fast travel, or ride a train buying the tickets or finish a mission the autosave automatically updates regardless of the saved files you load.

As to why not do what you say, maybe it depends on how big of a hurry you are to go to the bathroom.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

The over write popup is just something the game will do when your are running the game in a new session.

For example, load up the game, load your save (it's going to load the most recent one, autosave or not) once in game when you do anything in the game world that would trigger it to save progress to the autosave slot it will ask you. Why is this a problem? Of course you say YES, what else are you going to do. It only asks that one time during that entire time you have the game running.

That save is also very easily corruptible which is why I ended up just disabling the in-game autosave feature. It usually only saves after something bad happens anyways such as if you die. On my 2nd playthrough I vowed to play the entire game without dying a single time. So I manually save often. I might have died maybe once or twice that whole

I'm on my fourth playthrough and now messing around with mods. I can play around in this game for "hours" at a time without dying.

The autosave to me was just annoying because it never had a positive use or purpose that I could see. I wasn't surprised as I was already used to this from how GTA 5 works. Unlike GTA 4 where you needed to go to certain spots to save, such as inside an apartment and choose the option. But then again, dying in GTA games is not a big deal. It can be however in RDR2 for sure. In RDR2 if you die or go to jail you lose everything on the back of Horse. I also learn how to use 3 horses at the same time, so yea...

[HRRoach]

The popup to overwright is what the question was to start with. The answer is simple, just accept and say yes. It only asks when you load from a manual save. Or start from the start.


You keep the stuff on your horse when you die in single player. You lose a small amount of cash is all.