corrupt save after 1270 hours of gameplay...

[samuraj_55]

i tried to open the game and play as usual but when loading i got a message: failed to load saved data, delete the corrupt data and start a new game,
no way im starting over, all dragonforged weapons and armor both bbi and most "standard"
every piece from the ur-dragon, almost every 3 star bestiary on my pawn

[AvG]

I feel for you. I had lost one corrupted game from 2016 When I started playing again in 2020 and had to start over. Fortunately I got a bunch of pawn bestiary experience when they merged together and about 1 million RC as a going away gift.

[Elphaba]

Originally posted by samuraj_55:

i tried to open the game and play as usual but when loading i got a message: failed to load saved data, delete the corrupt data and start a new game,
no way im starting over, all dragonforged weapons and armor both bbi and most "standard"
every piece from the ur-dragon, almost every 3 star bestiary on my pawn

omg what is happening ?? that happened to me 2 months ago and lost everything!! i started over couple weeks ago. I wish you strength and patience. I truly feel your pain. There is something wrong with the game

[AvG]

Except for full completionists its pretty easy to get back in and get high level in a day too. Assuming your background you can go grab a dp ring on normal and a couple things at level 1 from BBI then switch to hard mode and start the game with two DP rings. With that you can now get fast exp and gold.

[Kaldaien]

Yeah, I lost my save from 8 years ago recently. Highly recommend you turn Steam Cloud Sync off in all games.

[samuraj_55]

Originally posted by Xenophobe:

if you use steam cloud, disable it for this game (right click game>properties>disable steam cloud) then try loading again. steam cloud can cause corrupt saves and config files in many games if the sync fails.

i tried that and unfortunately it did not work, thank you anyway for trying to help

[samuraj_55]

Originally posted by AvG:

I feel for you. I had lost one corrupted game from 2016 When I started playing again in 2020 and had to start over. Fortunately I got a bunch of pawn bestiary experience when they merged together and about 1 million RC as a going away gift.

thats sad to hear :( i dont understand why it happens? and what quarantee do you have that it wont happen again?

[samuraj_55]

Originally posted by Eileen Belserion:

Originally posted by samuraj_55:

i tried to open the game and play as usual but when loading i got a message: failed to load saved data, delete the corrupt data and start a new game,
no way im starting over, all dragonforged weapons and armor both bbi and most "standard"
every piece from the ur-dragon, almost every 3 star bestiary on my pawn

omg what is happening ?? that happened to me 2 months ago and lost everything!! i started over couple weeks ago. I wish you strength and patience. I truly feel your pain. There is something wrong with the game

Thank You! same to you, i have noticed that the game was acting strange lately, random crashes while loading or while resting att a inn it would not connect online repeatedly and now this, corrupt save

[samuraj_55]

Originally posted by Kaldaien:

Yeah, I lost my save from 8 years ago recently. Highly recommend you turn Steam Cloud Sync off in all games.

sad to hear that, seems like alot of people are getting affected of this? i will try that if i decide to start over

[Madao]

ouch, I feel your pain brother. that's why I deactivated steam could a LONG time ago and keep manual back-ups of every save file (at least the ones I care about)

kinda weird it's happens now. maybe they somehow added enigma to the game retroactively and it's messing up old saves?
just to be clear, I'm not saying they did, I'm asking whether that's a possibility

[JD777]

Every game that I play on Steam I backup the saves ever since I lost hundreds of hours of progress on many games in the past.

1. Right click on Dragons Dogma in Steam than left click on "Properties..."
2. In the next window look on the left click on "Installed Files" than on the right pane at the top click on the button "Browse..." . Its all the way to the right
3. Keep the file explorer window open and minimze it.
4. Go to the Steam discussion page and search without quotes "Save File location" (For Dragons Dogma the save files are located here : Steam\userdata\YOURSTEAMNUMBER\367500\remote)
5. Right click on Steam on your quick launch bar at the bottom than right click again on Steam.exe than click "Properties" than click on the button called "Open File Location" than click on "userdata" and open numbered folder than find "367500" create a shortcut for the "remote" folder and move it to the file explorer window opened in Step 3

Now anytime I play a game like Dragons Dogma I do steps 1 through 3 and backup the remote folder so if something happens I have my last good backup. haven't lost tons of gameplay since I started doing this 10 or so years ago.

[Guh~hey~hey~♫]

If you already know your turf, it takes 3 hours to get back to max level and full gear.... a few more hours to also gear and max out your main pawn....
If you're not sure how to, search for "DDDA how to have fun fast" on YT, it's a guide of how to powerlevel and most of the guide is pretty accurate (just avoid the part with the first gorecyclop... it's a waste of time).
Then it takes 20 minutes to open new game+

[Pragmatic Tornado]

As with every game with only one save slot, do manual backups, often. I backup mine via a script every single time I'm done with a session. That way I'll lose, at most, a few hours.

Games with this kind of save system really needs a built in, robust backup save system. Most games today do, as far as I've seen. I'll be very surprised if the sequel doesn't.

[samuraj_55]

Hello everyone, i just wanted to say thank you for all the replies i got from everyone, i started a new playthru and im already att level 200 and i already have most of the bbi lvl 3 weapons, Thank you and looking forward to see everyones pawn in Dragons dogma 2