Can't load a save

[Chaotic_Capy]

I am on day 120 or so and I was able to play yesterday but when I tried to load it today it started loading for a few seconds and then the game shut down. This doesn't happen with my other save game, what could be the problem? I can't start over, I'm already so far in.

[Tuidjy]

Your saved file is very likely to be corrupt, i.e. messed up beyond recovery.

If you have not played Viking Conquest since, you have the option to recover from a backup save. If you have started a new game, or gone to another character (in Viking Conquest, other mods don't matter) and played that, there is nothing you can do.

How to check whether you may have a chance to recover:

On Windows, go to Documents\Mount&Blade Warband Savegames\Viking Conquest.

Look at the timestamp of your corrupt file. Is it later than the timestamp of your last_savegame_backup.sav file?

If not, you will have to restart.

If yes, you are probably alright. Copy the backup, rename the new copy to sg0x.sav where x is a digit that you are not currently using, and try to load it.

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By the way, sorry to be a bit nosy, I just looked at your recent posts. You PC need some love. It sounds that you are at the very least running out of disk space, and at worst that your PC is completely messed up.

Before you try to recover the file, at least make sure you have room on your system drive. And by room, I mean a few hundred MBs, at the very least.

[Chaotic_Capy]

I have 500 gb of storage still on here

[Chaotic_Capy]

but yeah i did go to another character so i probably have to start over then