Dragonp0rn Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 I recently reformatted my computer, and backed up 2 of my saves: my main character's save and my secondary's. After I installed Skyrim and Dawnguard on my PC, there seems to be a problem with my main character's save. Whenever I try to load it, it just crashes to desktop. However, when I load my secondary's save, everything seems to be working fine. Does anyone have an idea what's wrong with my save? Could it be because of any mods (I had around 40 before I reformatted my computer and now I have like 10) I had? Is there anyway to know? I really don't want to lose my main character after the hundreds of hours I put into it, so if anyone could help me with this it would be very much appreciated =( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgiegril Posted August 28, 2012 Share Posted August 28, 2012 Could it be because of any mods (I had around 40 before I reformatted my computer and now I have like 10) I had? Yes. If the save depends on mods that are not there, it can crash. If you did not disable mods with scripts before uninstalling them, they can leave remnants that can also cause crashes. My advice, which of course you are free to ignore, is to start over, clean reinstall, remembering to remove any files steam misses, especially old save games and manually installed mods. It may hurt for a bit, but the pain of fussing with corrupted saves will probably hurt more in the long run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonp0rn Posted August 29, 2012 Author Share Posted August 29, 2012 Could it be because of any mods (I had around 40 before I reformatted my computer and now I have like 10) I had? Yes. If the save depends on mods that are not there, it can crash. If you did not disable mods with scripts before uninstalling them, they can leave remnants that can also cause crashes. My advice, which of course you are free to ignore, is to start over, clean reinstall, remembering to remove any files steam misses, especially old save games and manually installed mods. It may hurt for a bit, but the pain of fussing with corrupted saves will probably hurt more in the long run. If there is a way to somehow "revive" this save I'd really rather do it. I know it's safer going with a clean reinstall, but if I do that it's basically throwing hundreds of hours away. Not to mention having to do a lot of missions I didn't like again because I have to (The quests you need to do to actually be able to fight dragons and find shout words...). Thanks a lot though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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