Kanori24 Posted December 14, 2017 Share Posted December 14, 2017 (edited) I... I don't even know where to start... I was playing this evening after a hard day at work. I was about mid way through a decent play through with my favorite character, Ashlyn. I had just conversed with Parthuurnax and spent the night with the greybeards. Upon attempting to sleep on a bed in High Hrothgar, the game seemed to lock up. After about a minute of waiting, I decided it had gotten stuck trying to sleep. I ctrl+alt+del and killed the TESV.exe process and reloaded. This went well. I went back to the bed, but decided to save before sleeping. The save... took forever... about 2 minutes. Then I tried to sleep. It got stuck again, but this time I waited... and waited... and waited... and finally it entered sleep and passed through the night. Got up, went to leave High Hrothgar, and it took over 2 minutes again to go outside. Knowing something must be up with the save file, I decided to exit the game and check on it. Well... even exiting the game took an obnoxious amount of time. I pulled up Ashlyn's one and only non-autosave file in Save File SCript Cleaner, and to my surprise, it was blank. The only thing it pulled out of the save was the screenshot. Upon doing anything the program 'stopped working'. I tried loading the auto-saves. Same story... Scared, I opened the game and tried to load Ashlyn's save. "The save file is corrupt and cannot be loaded" My heart sank. I tried loading Autosave 1 "The save file is corrupt and cannot be loaded" I tried loading Autosave 2 "The save file is corrupt and cannot be loaded" Autosave 3 "The save file is corrupt and cannot be loaded" :sad: Loaded an earlier file of my assassin character, Suki. It loaded just fine. Tried loading Ashlyn one more time, just because I'm stuck in denial like that "The save file is corrupt and cannot be loaded" W-why, SKyrim.... why? Why so sudden? Why when every thing is so stable and reliable? Oh, 'cause I modded the game... Where did I mess up? By modding the game? By calling task manager and killing the process? Wh-what's going to happen with my other characters? I can start over with Ashlyn but still have to worry about this random nonsense happening to me again? Am I suppose to accumulate hundreds of save files so I can try to fall back on one? WHY DID THIS HAPPEN TO ALL 3 AUTOSAVES, AND MY MANUAL SAVE ALL AT ONCE?! ALSO WHAT HAPPEND TO THE .SKSE FILE IN SAVE? Edited December 14, 2017 by Kanori24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanori24 Posted December 15, 2017 Author Share Posted December 15, 2017 Okay I have achieved the impossible and have recovered the save simply by trying to load it until it finally succeeded. My character was a bit messed up, and there were a few bugs, but everything appears to be well and functional otherwise. I reloaded a recent RaceMenu preset of the character, made a new save, cleaned said save, and went from there. So far the only real bugs I noticed were... What's-his-name and the blacksmith lady in Whiterun were facing off as if having their initial conversation when you first enter Whiterun. All favorites were removed in SkyUI. Had to redo them. Wasn't able to finish the companion job quest I was on (corrected with console command) I am extremely proud that I was able to recover that save, especially after not a single person even bothered to step up with advice, and every last piece of information I found claimed it would be futile to try to recover it and all hope was lost. If I had followed that information I would have given up. But that's not something I do. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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