Dont overwrite your saves!

[Blackened Halo]

The game may crash when rewritting your save and the save will be broken and useless....

[Dwarkan]

may be your are right... after more than 80 hours of plaing my game constantly crashes and hes I have overwrited many of mys saves...

[Scyris]

Yeah if I am going to make a hard save I just make a new one and then delete the old one, much safer this way than overwriting them.

[Alyce nChaynes]

Originally posted by Blackened Halo:

The game may crash when rewritting your save and the save will be broken and useless....

Oh no >.< I am on ng+ nr 4 and i am crashing like it's a competition.

[Steppenrazor]

er..
i have been doing that for like 150 hrs.. w/ zero issue.. (24 saves ignoring auto/quick saves.

was once at 30.. but deleted a few)

[Adam Beckett]

'Overwriting saves' has nothing to do with the game.

'Overwriting saves' is just like any other write operation, handled by the operating system and the file system (NTFS).

There is no 'partial overwrite' or any other kind of myths. There also is never anything 'writing over something' else. One file gets written newly on another part of the NTFS disk, only then, the other file (old one) gets deleted. If a file does not successfully complete a write operation, it fails.

That is not an 'opinion'. That is how operating systems work, for the past 70 years.

[JinxTheWorld]

Eh, if it does happen no biggy. I have a habit of saving every 10-15 minutes in games literally due to past bethesda games. Not to mention this game autosaves like crazy as well, so i just overwrite the autosaves lmao.

[Steppenrazor]

Originally posted by Adam Beckett:

'Overwriting saves' has nothing to do with the game.

'Overwriting saves' is just like any other write operation, handled by the operating system and the file system (NTFS).

There is no 'partial overwrite' or any other kind of myths. There also is never anything 'writing over something' else. One file gets written newly on another part of the NTFS disk, only then, the other file (old one) gets deleted. If a file does not successfully complete a write operation, it fails.

That is not an 'opinion'. That is how operating systems work, for the past 70 years.

largely true - BUT if you save a game that has a bug, over an older game - its very likely the bug will still exist.

its not the over writing thats the issue - its saving a bugged game over a "good" game - that can cause issues.

plus - some issues can stick around till you exit the game and reload (have you tried turning it off and again? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2FB1P_Mn8 )

[TheCr33pur]

Alot of these users (players) may have bad drives. Most of them use only one drive that has OS, junks and well this game. So using cloud save is bad, better off using hardsave and nothing wrong writing over it, unless you have to have a backup before that. So wouldnt hurt to have two or even three.

If you still having issues, get another SSD and use that for gaming only!

[Blackened Halo]

Originally posted by Adam Beckett:

'Overwriting saves' has nothing to do with the game.

'Overwriting saves' is just like any other write operation, handled by the operating system and the file system (NTFS).

There is no 'partial overwrite' or any other kind of myths. There also is never anything 'writing over something' else. One file gets written newly on another part of the NTFS disk, only then, the other file (old one) gets deleted. If a file does not successfully complete a write operation, it fails.

That is not an 'opinion'. That is how operating systems work, for the past 70 years.

What I said was that the game may crash when overwriting saves. I am not saying that overwriting causes the game to crash.

[Steppenrazor]

Originally posted by TheCr33pur:

Alot of these users (players) may have bad drives. Most of them use only one drive that has OS, junks and well this game. So using cloud save is bad, better off using hardsave and nothing wrong writing over it, unless you have to have a backup before that. So wouldnt hurt to have two or even three.

If you still having issues, get another SSD and use that for gaming only!

OS/swap file - on one drive ONLY

programs/games/saves/data on 2nd, d: drive -win.

did the same when i had HDDs (shudder.. do people really have HDDs.. i mean wtf you can get a decent sized SDD for like the cost of a cheese burger now..

[Alyce nChaynes]

Originally posted by Blackened Halo:

Originally posted by Adam Beckett:

'Overwriting saves' has nothing to do with the game.

'Overwriting saves' is just like any other write operation, handled by the operating system and the file system (NTFS).

There is no 'partial overwrite' or any other kind of myths. There also is never anything 'writing over something' else. One file gets written newly on another part of the NTFS disk, only then, the other file (old one) gets deleted. If a file does not successfully complete a write operation, it fails.

That is not an 'opinion'. That is how operating systems work, for the past 70 years.

What I said was that the game may crash when overwriting saves. I am not saying that overwriting causes the game to crash.

I had this issue at a particular spot in Akila city. Hard to find i got to stand at the right spot and look in the direction of the general store, any attempt here to f5, is a cdt :D

[LeftPaw]

Good tip. Good advice OP, thank you.