Advice: do not quicksave.

[Quevik]

Combination personal opinion and generally accepted advice by many who use mods.

I see a bunch of posts here about quicksaving not working or causing issues. I played regular skyrim over 1k hours, often with over 150+ mods installed. From experience, I can tell you that quicksaving is (often) a bad idea.

Manual saves are slower but tend to pause scripts long enough to avoid issues. Quicksaves and autosaves can both cause scripts to get stuck, even in the vanilla game. Sometimes, issues are severe enough to be game-breaking, especially after 50+ hours.

I am not saying that quicksaving will always lead to issues. Many may use it without problems. I'm just trying to let people know that Manual saves (While more obnoxious) tend to be more stable.

Think of using manual saves like wearing a seat-belt. It may not be necessary at all or it may save your (characters) life. Always buckle-up when playing skyrim.

Some friendly advice, use it or don't.

[ᑕYᗷEᖇᑕᗩT]

I only hard save at story event turning points. Kind of like chapter saves, other then that i QS. My issue is that i dont save often enuff which just boned me as i lost 3 real days of playtime due to the thives questline bug. :(

[Supafly]

Never had an issue with quicksaves. I do tend to stand still briefly before pressing F5. If there is an issue maybe this has helped me avoid it. :)

I do cycle through 3+ manual saves though. Usually do overwrite my oldest save before every dungeon I enter, when I exit and then around every hour depending on when I remember to check my clock.

[RyBo]

2,000 hours of Oldrim.

200 in SE.

Never quick save or use auto saves if your running mods. I have all auto's turned off and only use hard saves. Why because auto's and quicks take a snap shot of your current game including the scripts that are running. So when you load them up they start there scripts from when you saved it. obviously this is a bad thing when running multi mods like Frostfall, Ineed, wet/cold, Better Vampires, etc, etc.

Hard saves restart your scripts on load.

[Washell]

It's a Bethesda game... always make new saves and keep a half dozen of the latest around. If you don't, it's just a matter of time until you lose a lot of progress.

[Belanos]

Originally posted by Washell:

It's a Bethesda game... always make new saves and keep a half dozen of the latest around. If you don't, it's just a matter of time until you lose a lot of progress.

This is nothing but an urban myth that goes back to at least the Oblivion days. I have 4 Bethesda games now and have used auto-save and quick-save constantly for years, and I have rarely had any problems with them in all that time. Occasionally one of them will get corrupted, but it's so rare an event as to be virtually non-existent. For Skyrim, with it's 3 autosaves, it's nothing to be concerned about at all. In the off chance that your latest save becomes corrupted, you'll still have two more that will still work, plus your quick-save.

[Peculiar_Shenanigans]

Good post!
I also 'only' do hard saves "just in case". IF i have a CTD i can't blame it on that in the first place.
Another tip; On top of that, i always make a "NEW SAVE". It's also just in case. When i start to get alot of saves in my folder, i delete some of them by hand.

[Malaman]

I quicksave about every 5-10 minutes and already have 70+ hours without any issues whatsoever.

[Gazmeister]

I always quicksave and I've never had any problems with it.

[SpeedFreak1972]

pff no trouble here either in all 4800 hours on the legendary and 200 hours on the SE

[Brandybuck]

Does this still apply with the new game engine? I ask because I never ran into any problems with Fallout 4, which is essentially the same game engine. Also, I used quicksaves during my last playthrough of original Skryim and had zero problems. Oblivion and Fallout 3, however, rarely make it past a dozen quicksaves before the weirdness starts.

[Peculiar_Shenanigans]

Lol, so far for "common sense" ^
These tricks are to avoid "the risk" of it happening. Don't know what's so hard to understand about that. Corrupt saves "are a thing" and you can do this to 'lessen' the risk.
Maybe it never happens but "i" rather be save than start over a few hours when my last saves are ♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Vinnie Mack]

i have heard this wisdom. Only a fool fails to learn from others. So although i do use quicksaves while in the midst of battles or dungeons, i always do a manual save before quitting for the day. Besides, the cloud does have back up saves.

[Shrapnel]

Originally posted by RyBo:

2,000 hours of Oldrim.

200 in SE.

Never quick save or use auto saves if your running mods. I have all auto's turned off and only use hard saves. Why because auto's and quicks take a snap shot of your current game including the scripts that are running. So when you load them up they start there scripts from when you saved it. obviously this is a bad thing when running multi mods like Frostfall, Ineed, wet/cold, Better Vampires, etc, etc.

Hard saves restart your scripts on load.

♥♥♥♥, just when I thought I kneweverything about skyrim!
thank you

[Belanos]

Originally posted by Vinnie Mack:

So although i do use quicksaves while in the midst of battles or dungeons, i always do a manual save before quitting for the day.

And that's a good idea, which is something I do myself as well. I also have a save for when I'm about to level up, and when I go into an area I'm not sure about, just in case I end up getting into something over my head. But this notion of avoiding auto/quick-save like the plagues, and having tons of manual saves as you progress, is totally unnecessary and down right compulsive.

[Vinnie Mack]

Originally posted by Belanos:

Originally posted by Vinnie Mack:

So although i do use quicksaves while in the midst of battles or dungeons, i always do a manual save before quitting for the day.

And that's a good idea, which is something I do myself as well. I also have a save for when I'm about to level up, and when I go into an area I'm not sure about, just in case I end up getting into something over my head. But this notion of avoiding auto/quick-save like the plagues, and having tons of manual saves as you progress, is totally unnecessary and down right compulsive.

obviously i agree with what you are saying. Excessive manual saves make no sense. Which is why i have the one manual save at the end of a day. Also, if i am entering an uncertain area, or if i have just cleared an area, i do a hard save, just incase. I have to say i am happy i had the hard save yesterday. I had too many mods running on my ps4 version so the game refused to recognize the auto save. i had a hard save a few minutes back that i loaded once i cleared up the mod problem.