Shtewart Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 After toying around with TES5Edit, load order, BOSS, and my mods, I have reason to believe that my save games are corrupted. I've had problems with it loading in the past but have always found a way to load it usually via loading an earlier save, getting in game, then successfully loading the desired save game. However, I have not been able to load ANY of my 200+ save games (all for one character). I concluded that none of them work after trying to load my most recent saves and saves that have previously loaded successfully (which is quite a number) even though I have not tried to load all 200+ of them. I recently deleted mods to lighten the stress on my game, created a new game, and went from there successfully. My question is this: is there a way to fix my corrupted saves? I know there are a couple of tools out there that help sort save games, but I do not know which is right for my problem. Suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgiegril Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 There is no way to fix a corrupted save.Skse has a line you can add to avoid some script bloating, that is the closest you will get. Other save game "fixes" will introduce more instability into your game...you can try them but Personally I do not recommend them. However, to greatly decrease the problem in the future, you can:1. Disable auto saves and quick saves. There is a mod somewhere that binds the complete save to a function key, if you need that.2. In a new game, add no mods until after Helgen, (or use an alternate start mod). Before making any change, read everything the mod author provides and investigate any tweak fully. Make only 1 or 2 changes at a time, run BOSS (for mods) and play for stability before adding 1 or 2 more things. If you discover a problem deal with it before continuing.3. Once you have your game set up the way you like, do not continue to add mods or tweaks (even updates) until you are ready to start a new game, or at least have made peace that your game might break.4. Play with Steam in offline mode, and avoid using the workshop to load mods (since these will update without your permission and can break games.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shtewart Posted May 19, 2013 Author Share Posted May 19, 2013 Well then, it seems like I'm in a pickle. I got a new game started successfully but I have lost a lot of progress. Thanks for the reply.Just a question out of curiosity: why do auto saves introduce instability? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgiegril Posted May 19, 2013 Share Posted May 19, 2013 I'm afraid I am not an expert in this, but as I understand it:Autosaves and quick saves overwrite previous files.Every time you overwrite a file, it increases the chance of corruption. (think making a copy from a copy from a copy...though it's really a copy over a copy over a copy.) This is also why its better to make a full save in a new slot, and just delete old saves if you get too many of them.Auto and quick saves only write what has changed, not the entire file, increasing the possibility of corrupted data.In addition, autosaves may occur in the middle of a script being executed, which causes problems when you try to load the save. (this can happen with full saves too, but you have much more control over it.) The other benefit of making full saves is that you do end up with a savegame issue, it is easy to go back to your last full save, which should not set you too far back if you are making frequent full saves. On the other hand, if you are relying on quicksaves and auto saves, finding a working save game is likely to be much hard, and you may end up in the situation you are now. Personally, since relying on full saves only for the past year, I have had only 4 or 5 savegame problems, usually because I accidently saved in the middle of my follower dismounting or something similar. I was able to quickly backtrack and be on my way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
killercat3 Posted October 23, 2013 Share Posted October 23, 2013 I downloaded polymorphy and tried to load my save games and they wont work, have uninstalled the mod but they still wont load help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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blackhole906 Posted September 20, 2015 Share Posted September 20, 2015 i got all my save games corrupted after downloading a few mods not sure which one papyrusutil.espBeeingfemale.esmtembtrathiefarmor.espbouncyboudicesandbooties.esp does any of these mods corrupt save games I know this is a old topic I dont exspect a reply Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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