Save Files Keep Corrupting

[JustAGamer]

Hello everyone, I always run into this particular issue, no matter what I seem to do. My save files keep corrupting regardless of how I play the game. Mods, mods that fix things, no mods at all, it just does not matter, my saves keep constantly getting corrupted. Does anyone have a way of fixing this problem? I really enjoy this game and I love playing on Survival in particular, but when my saves get corrupted, I lose all of my progress due to Survival's save system. Please let me know if you have any suggestions!

Thank you!

[Thermal Lance]

This is why I use a mod to allow saving in survival.

[stargit]

Don't play the known buggy game.

[Alio]

The game won't corrupt your save files. You need to run WMD and Memtest86 to check your RAM for errors. That or a failing HDD/SSD is usually why files become corrupted.

Also run local and online command prompts to repair Windows, you may have a corrupted OS.

[AlexandreNazareth]

Are you using mods? There is a problem in bethesda games, if you are using mods and this mods are broken or something else, they will corrupt your save and tou need to deactivate the mods to see the problem. If you are not using mods and the save is corrupt, sorry, you need to start over, there is no turning back when this occur.

[VastEnemy]

Originally posted by Alio:

The game won't corrupt your save files. You need to run WMD and Memtest86 to check your RAM for errors. That or a failing HDD/SSD is usually why files become corrupted.

Also run local and online command prompts to repair Windows, you may have a corrupted OS.

This. Exactly this.

I've played hundreds of hours on console since it was released, and maybe 110 on PC in the last couple years. Never had a problem like this, or even heard of it among my associates and friends who play it on both console or PC. What you are describing sounds more like a hardware issue.

[stargit]

Originally posted by VastEnemy:

Originally posted by Alio:

The game won't corrupt your save files. You need to run WMD and Memtest86 to check your RAM for errors. That or a failing HDD/SSD is usually why files become corrupted.

Also run local and online command prompts to repair Windows, you may have a corrupted OS.

This. Exactly this.

I've played hundreds of hours on console since it was released, and maybe 110 on PC in the last couple years. Never had a problem like this, or even heard of it among my associates and friends who play it on both console or PC. What you are describing sounds more like a hardware issue.

It's been going on since day 1 for some people.
That's why there is a mod to fix it.

[Alio]

Originally posted by stargit:

Originally posted by VastEnemy:

This. Exactly this.

I've played hundreds of hours on console since it was released, and maybe 110 on PC in the last couple years. Never had a problem like this, or even heard of it among my associates and friends who play it on both console or PC. What you are describing sounds more like a hardware issue.

It's been going on since day 1 for some people.
That's why there is a mod to fix it.

"For some people"

Yea, for some people who are running bad RAM or a corrupted OS. Lmao.

I have a combined 5k+ hours in Bethesda games and not once has a save file ever become corrupted. This is almost undoubtedly a hardware issue.

You could be running bad RAM for years and never even notice it, but things like corrupted files are usually an inclination to test your hardware for errors.

[stargit]

Originally posted by Alio:

Originally posted by stargit:

It's been going on since day 1 for some people.
That's why there is a mod to fix it.

"For some people"

Yea, for some people who are running bad RAM or a corrupted OS. Lmao.

I have a combined 5k+ hours in Bethesda games and not once has a save file ever become corrupted. This is almost undoubtedly a hardware issue.

You could be running bad RAM for years and never even notice it, but things like corrupted files are usually an inclination to test your hardware for errors.

You have lost the plot

https://help.bethesda.net/#en/answer/31944

As I said. It is a known bug that never got fixed.

[JustAGamer]

One more thing I forgot to mention, but I'm not sure this will change much in the way of the helping replies, this only happens in Fallout 4. No other game that I have, regardless of their modded or unmodded state, have this issue. This soley happens with Fallout 4 and Fallout 4 only.

[Alio]

Originally posted by stargit:

Originally posted by Alio:

"For some people"

Yea, for some people who are running bad RAM or a corrupted OS. Lmao.

I have a combined 5k+ hours in Bethesda games and not once has a save file ever become corrupted. This is almost undoubtedly a hardware issue.

You could be running bad RAM for years and never even notice it, but things like corrupted files are usually an inclination to test your hardware for errors.

You have lost the plot

https://help.bethesda.net/#en/answer/31944

As I said. It is a known bug that never got fixed.

"How to fix a corrupted save file" - You can't.

These are just ways to avoid it, it doesn't imply there is an issue on a software level. If you have bad RAM creating errors, you can corrupt data through game saves because at the end of the day, it's just saving numbers, and if your RAM is producing errors in said number replication, the file becomes corrupted due to erroneous numbers. When you overwrite data over time, some of those errors can cause the file to corrupt for instance.

It's very unlikely for anything but a hardware related issue to cause file corruption. Not saying there isn't bad software or code, but it's just highly unlikely compared to other reasons.

[stargit]

Originally posted by Alio:

Originally posted by stargit:

You have lost the plot

https://help.bethesda.net/#en/answer/31944

As I said. It is a known bug that never got fixed.

"How to fix a corrupted save file" - You can't.

These are just ways to avoid it, it doesn't imply there is an issue on a software level. If you have bad RAM creating errors, you can corrupt data through game saves because at the end of the day, it's just saving numbers, and if your RAM is producing errors in said number replication, the file becomes corrupted due to erroneous numbers. When you overwrite data over time, some of those errors can cause the file to corrupt for instance.

It's very unlikely for anything but a hardware related issue to cause file corruption. Not saying there isn't bad software or code, but it's just highly unlikely compared to other reasons.

Did you read the link from the devs?
Yes it's a bug that they never fixed and never will.

"!Note: In some cases, all of your saves will be corrupted and you will need to start a new game and/or reinstall the game entirely."

[AeSix]

Originally posted by Alio:

The game won't corrupt your save files. You need to run WMD and Memtest86 to check your RAM for errors. That or a failing HDD/SSD is usually why files become corrupted.

Also run local and online command prompts to repair Windows, you may have a corrupted OS.

Yeah, that's not accurate. Not fales, just not accurate.

I play on a ~1 year old PS5, with less than 1200 hours on it, with about 300 hours for FO4. No other game has these issues, including Cities Skylines and Skyrim. (Both larger games, both large, complex saves, and Skyrim being from the same dev...)

So, before spouting off what you think you know as absolute fact - maybe do some actual research.

Oh, and why is a PS5 player here, commenting on this? Because I was doing research to see why THE GAME is corrupting my saves, when I seen this glorious nugget of ignorance.

[AeSix]

Originally posted by VastEnemy:

Originally posted by Alio:

The game won't corrupt your save files. You need to run WMD and Memtest86 to check your RAM for errors. That or a failing HDD/SSD is usually why files become corrupted.

Also run local and online command prompts to repair Windows, you may have a corrupted OS.

This. Exactly this.

I've played hundreds of hours on console since it was released, and maybe 110 on PC in the last couple years. Never had a problem like this, or even heard of it among my associates and friends who play it on both console or PC. What you are describing sounds more like a hardware issue.

Yeah, again, more false information. Read my rpevious comment.

[Zekiran]

yeah no there's a reason why there's a joke statement since ever with Bethesda, "if your game doesn't have a corrupted save, is it really a Bethesda game?"

It's there for a reason. Saves sometimes just go sideways for virtually any reason. Bad ram or an abrupt game crash? sure. too much clutter and too large a save file? yup. You glanced at it crosseyed? sure.

Sometimes you need to just remember to manually save and part with any and all broken saves. Yes, it might mean losing thirty hours of game. But you can't expect it to fix itself, and you can take some amount of precautions knowing that the engine and bethesda's methods of creating and storing saves is sometimes dreadfully bad.

[ameda9]

Irrelevant of the bickering above, can anyone provide a solution? I had an issue where I lost perhaps 30 hours of play once but I guess I could partially blame myself that time but now I have a second round with say 30h hours again and all files are corrupted, all. This time, i see the FOS files have 12-13 mb so while big, at least the information should be there. I don't want replay a third time, please help!