[SOLVED]Game-breaking (and very strange) bug in Witcher 3

[Dr.Alina]

Sorry for my english.

I think that I have a bug connected to how many times you saved the game (not to the number of saves). Let me explain. Imagine that everything is OK, then you save the game (any save counts: auto, checkpoint, quick, manual) and load that save. After this you encounter the following bug: when you pick up (or receive in any way) an item it (may) not be added to your inventory, instead some seemingly random item is actually added (for example, you picked up a book and received a gwent card or a steel ingot). And this includes quest related items (which obviously brakes quests). Even Items added by console commands are randomized (actually randomized may not be the right word: if you try to add an item multiple times, you always receive the same item, but it may not be the item you actually added). I encountered this bug after ~300 hours of fine working gameplay on PC.

I think that the bug occurs due to too many saves, for example: I have four consequent saves, say A, B, C and D, where D is the latest and the bug is not present. If I load D, save the game and load the new save I receive the bug (so for D I have no more saves left), for C if I save the game and load the new save, everything is fine, but if I save and load again I receive the bug (so for C I have one save left). And for A I have three saves left. It does not matter if I override the old save or create a new one.

What I have tried (with no success):
I transfered saves A, B, C, D to PS 5 and got exactly the same situation. So I do not think that this bug is platform related (the initial saves are from PC, the game version is 4.04).
I turn of my mods (Brothers in arms and over 9000).
I reinstalled the game, removed all but one relatively old save from the saves' folder, loaded it and after ~50 saves received the same bug ( this convinced me that I am dealing with how many times i saved the game ).

If you encountered this bug or have some suggestions, please let me know.

[Just Guy 0_0]

I have 1,486 Files in game save folder and some are 4.0 , 4.01 , 4.02 , 4.03 and now 4.04 using mods on every one and no matter what save I load I cant replicate your issue. (I played only 150 hours so I guess I have less saves than you)

how many saves do you have?

maybe it is related to specific number (just go to properties in game saves in documents as I am counting thumbnail files as well)

[Dr.Alina]

how many saves do you have?

maybe it is related to specific number (just go to properties in game saves in documents as I am counting thumbnail files as well)

I do not think that this bug is about the number of saves in the saves' folder, but about the number of times you saved the game (for example, you may have one file which you have overwritten 1000 times and the bug is about these 1000 times)

[Just Guy 0_0]

Originally posted by Dr.Alina:

how many saves do you have?

maybe it is related to specific number (just go to properties in game saves in documents as I am counting thumbnail files as well)

I do not think that this bug is about the number of saves in the saves' folder, but about the number of times you saved the game (for example, you may have one file which you have overwritten 1000 times and the bug is about these 1000 times)

dont know you can send the ticket to devs about it if there is such error. proably would take a while to fix it though.

[Dr.Alina]

This turns out to be a known problem.
The solution is here
https://forums.cdprojektred.com/index.php?threads/save-game-corruption-pc-version-1-3-please-help.7070790/
Note that it is not a simple one to implement, but I can confirm that it works fine for v4.04