Deleting Witcher 2 saves manualy with/with out cloud (Guide Solved)

[Bastid]

Witcher 2 has a problem with bloated saves. The game will sometimes crash to desktop with no error, and it sometimes will take several minutes to re-log back into steam after the crash do to the save feature in the cloud. F5 is an auto save and what it does, it overwrites a previous save. With the cloud it can get confusing to some as to where the gamsaves get stored, and most of the time deleting the saves in game will also crash the game to desktop with no errors. Here are a few tips to get the game restarted when it crashes to the desktop with no errors and to delete saves.

If you CTD with no errors and steam does not want to start up right away? Simply ctrl/alt/delete to get the Task Manager up. Scroll down, highlight anything steam and click End Task. This will stop all of steam. Then simply reopen steam up and it will re-load straight away. ( I have a shortcut on my desktop for steam, and I just click on that to re-open my steam)

MANUALY Deleting Saves:

Deleting Saves WITH OUT cloud: Documents\Witcher 2\gamsaves. Highlight all or some files. Besure to delete both the .sav and .bmp files. **WARNING** Take note to the Date Modified for the file. The files WILL be tagged with a date and a time. Besure you want to delete these files, or you WILL lose a save that you did not want to lose.

Steam gives a unique account number to all profiles. This number can be found in the Steam\userdata folder. I have two steam accounts so I have two unique numbers in this folder, most people have just one. This number you will need later to help locate the cloud file.

Deleting Saves WITH IN cloud: Steam\userdata\* your unique profile number*\20920\remote

20920 - is the Witcher 2 ID number
remote - is where the cloud saves get stored to

Double click the remote folder, and VIOLA there are all your saves. The saves are marked as .sav and .bmp files with a Date Modified tag. Each save uses a .bmp file BESURE to delete BOTH the .sav and .bmp per each save.

And like above; Highlight all the files you want to delete, and take note to the Date Modified tag on each file so you DO NOT lose a save and that is it.

Pro-Tip:

Deleteing saves will help A LOT with game performance, quicker load times, and less crashes. So try to keep the game save list low.

[Fervent Ooze]

If you delete the saves manually and have cloud enabled the saves will restore every single time you turn the game on...

[Indiana_Minotaur]

Originally posted by T3RRICID3:

If you delete the saves manually and have cloud enabled the saves will restore every single time you turn the game on...

^ Yup. You need to actually disable cloud save.

Also may i recommend to anyone who gets this game. Ensure you have it jogged down somewhere when was the last time you save because the game will CTD randomly even without saving too many times.

[Fervent Ooze]

I found a way

You must exit steam completely, locate the save, select the report folder and open it with power shell, using powershell corrupt the files (so they're 0kb) and then turn on steam

You'll be promted that the files are corrupt and then you can delete the files and upload to cloud (instead of downloading form it).

That's how I deleted the saves, windows 10 pro, 64-bit.

[Waggy]

Is this still necessary in 2019? I'll play with cloud off and follow the advice anyway.

[Fervent Ooze]

Well, I had to do it, and this was this year (2019 for people from the future).

[Fervent Ooze]

But perhaps there is another way, I am not too sure.

[Haelous]

Still a problem in 2020 but I ended up using SteamCloudFileManagerLite to solve this. Super easy to use.

https://github.com/GMMan/SteamCloudFileManagerLite/releases

[DaKatGod]

... You can delete your saves in-game.
Does nobody else do that? Or am I weird.

[metatron]

Originally posted by Haelous:

Still a problem in 2020 but I ended up using SteamCloudFileManagerLite to solve this. Super easy to use.

https://github.com/GMMan/SteamCloudFileManagerLite/releases

finally! thanks for this. was able to delete the saves.

Originally posted by DaKatGod:

... You can delete your saves in-game.
Does nobody else do that? Or am I weird.

you're weird. the problem is how the game redownloads the save files after you deleted them locally. And no, I don't want to disable steam cloud sync.

[Lucius Vorenus]

Originally posted by Haelous:

Still a problem in 2020 but I ended up using SteamCloudFileManagerLite to solve this. Super easy to use.

https://github.com/GMMan/SteamCloudFileManagerLite/releases

Easy to use? How exactly? what do i do here? is there something i have to download? Explain how this works please because im confused

[Lucius Vorenus]

Originally posted by DaKatGod:

... You can delete your saves in-game.
Does nobody else do that? Or am I weird.

It takes an average of 14 seconds to delete a save in the game and i have over 800.....do the math

[DaKatGod]

Originally posted by TheWhiteWolf88:

Originally posted by DaKatGod:

... You can delete your saves in-game.
Does nobody else do that? Or am I weird.

It takes an average of 14 seconds to delete a save in the game and i have over 800.....do the math

Shouldn't take that long if you have a small collection. When you have over 800 save files, then yeah; it takes longer to delete the file from the cloud (or your computer, if cloud isn't enabled).
Should be deleting older saves as you move along. Or at the very least, the in-between-saves so it doesn't get so cluttered and overwhelming.

Also, press the [DEL] (or backspace? Don't remember ATM) key on your keyboard while having your save file selected/hovered over. Will give you a confirmation box yes/no to deleting the selected save file, press yes/enter and file's deleted.
^ --- Can easily have your selection stay in one place, pressing the key to delete, then pressing [enter] to smoothly delete old saves.

[Mathroy]

Originally posted by DaKatGod:

... You can delete your saves in-game.
Does nobody else do that? Or am I weird.

I do it now that I've tried everything (except disabling Cloud Saving because I like that feature), but manually deleting save files in-game makes the game crash a lot + it takes a long time as I like to save everytime I did something, that way if I die I don't have to go back 20 minutes earlier and re-do things.

[DaKatGod]

Originally posted by Mathroy:

Originally posted by DaKatGod:

... You can delete your saves in-game.
Does nobody else do that? Or am I weird.

I do it now that I've tried everything (except disabling Cloud Saving because I like that feature), but manually deleting save files in-game makes the game crash a lot + it takes a long time as I like to save everytime I did something, that way if I die I don't have to go back 20 minutes earlier and re-do things.

Could simply delete the in-between-saves of each session, so save space. Or after you've finished a playthrough, can delete everything leading up to the final save right before/after Letho's confrontation.

Not saying you have to do this, but just throwing out some advice as someone who likes saving his game just as much, but doesn't like having to sift through 40 files with not-so-accurate-save-images.

[Lucius Vorenus]

Originally posted by Haelous:

Still a problem in 2020 but I ended up using SteamCloudFileManagerLite to solve this. Super easy to use.

https://github.com/GMMan/SteamCloudFileManagerLite/releases

Answer the question please. How do i use this program? You claim its easy to use.