Loading Error

[jackisu]

Same as many other people, I'm getting the Loading Error anytime I try to load a save after the Lighthouse. I already know that people are saying moving the install from an HDD to SSD, but my SSD does not have the space for it. Clearly its supposed to be able to play on an HDD, as I got an alert when I first starting saying I had to stick to low graphics while its installed on one. Does anyone have another solution to this? It's honestly ridiculous that it's this bad.

[Quacksalber]

I managed to load an autosave from a checkpoint at the lighthouse. I'm missing several hours playtime though. I read another post where someone was suggesting making a new character, verifying the game files, loading the new one and then from that the old one, however, I suggest searching to read what they did precisely.

[Liberty4ever]

Waiting for a patch. If patch a day ago !!

[jackisu]

Originally posted by EH!:

I managed to load an autosave from a checkpoint at the lighthouse. I'm missing several hours playtime though. I read another post where someone was suggesting making a new character, verifying the game files, loading the new one and then from that the old one, however, I suggest searching to read what they did precisely.

Do you remember which post? There's quite a few about this issue.

[Quacksalber]

Originally posted by jackisu:

Originally posted by EH!:

I managed to load an autosave from a checkpoint at the lighthouse. I'm missing several hours playtime though. I read another post where someone was suggesting making a new character, verifying the game files, loading the new one and then from that the old one, however, I suggest searching to read what they did precisely.

Do you remember which post? There's quite a few about this issue.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1845910/discussions/0/4635986167856117605/

[Raii]

I try to load my first ever save and then when i'm in game i try to open the save file i want, it worked for me

[CuQuoise]

I have reported this to EA's support via chat to create a ticket. I strongly recommend we all do so that it gets prioritized, finally. The person I chatted with found ONE other ticket created a week ago about this issue!!!!

The last update made it so that the work-arounds no longer work for me. I cannot play, at all, (unless I want to make a new character to actually play.)

Please go the EA's support page to get this escalated! You can get to the link from Steam by selecting the support tab or go to:

https://help.ea.com/en/solutions/?product=dragon-age-the-veilguard&platform=pc&intent=load-game

I would skip ahead to the chat option, though. The articles were not quite relevant.

[CuQuoise]

Turns out, I was mistaken about the drive I had been using for many games- it wasn't solid state. I moved Dragon Age to a SSD, and my main save loaded on first try, no silly work-arounds, or anything else AND it loaded really fast. (seriously, the time I wasted on this up til now, I could cry...)

Maybe check to make sure you're using an SSD drive. Hopefully this helps you, too!

It doesn't really show that easily at first glance what you're dealing with, especially by file name (friendly names like D: C: F: tell us nothing). You can go into the device manager and see if you have SSD drives, but which "friendly name" do each of those match? Here's a way using PowerShell to find out quickly:

Get-PhysicalDisk | ForEach-Object {
  $disk = $_
  try {
    $disk | Get-Disk | Get-Partition | ForEach-Object {
      $partition = $_
      $volume = Get-Volume -Partition $partition
      if ($volume.DriveLetter) {
        [PSCustomObject]@{
          FriendlyName = $disk.FriendlyName
          MediaType    = $disk.MediaType
          DriveLetter  = $volume.DriveLetter
        }
      }
    }
  }
  catch {
    Write-Warning "Disk $($disk.FriendlyName) has no associated partitions with drive letters."
  }
}