Odd glitch - my save numbering has gone bananas.

[gpstr1]

This is one I've never seen or heard of before. I'm not sure if it's really an issue, but it's at least a bit disconcerting.

 

I recently upgraded my PC and along the way, reinstalled Win7 x64. So as a part of that process, as I've always done in the past, I reinstalled Oblivion, then copied my existing game folder and MyGames/Oblivion folders over the new installation, so I kept my heavily modded game the way it was.

 

Everything works fine, BUT - my last save on my old install was save number 34428. All the times I've done this before, the game just continued on assigning save numbers in order, so I would've expected the next save to be number 34429. Instead, the first save I made on the new install was assigned the number 1030798206. Just to make sure that it wasn't a one-off thing, I played for a while and let my game autosave (Simple Saves) twice, which (though the autosaves don't display the number) should've been save numbers ...207 and ...208, then I did another manual save, and sure enough, it was number 1030798209. So the numbering seems to be working as expected - it's just, for whatever reason, spontaneously jumped up to a gigantic number, then continued on from there.

 

Again, I'm not sure if this is even a problem (except that the number now takes up so much space on the main screen that it expanded each entry out to three lines, so they overlap each other and are sort of hard to read), but it is definitely strange, and I have no idea how to go about changing it, since the save count seems to be entirely internal - I see nothing in the ini that addresses it.

 

Anyone else seen something like this before? Is there any reason (other than the convenience of smaller numbers) to bother with fixing it? Any ideas how to go about that?

[Oblivionaddicted]

How many saves did you keep in your vanilla saves folder?

[gpstr1]

Sorry - just got back to this.

 

I don't know exactly, but there are 2200 files total in there, so making allowance for .obse and .bak files, I'd guess maybe 1000 or so at most, and likely less than that.

 

For context, I have almost 40 different characters, each with their own set of 12 rotating autosaves (Simple Saves), so that's maybe a dozen or so hard saves per character.

[Striker879]

I've no experience with Simple Saves (my system is far simpler than that ... manual saves using the vanilla game Esc menu and all auto-saves turned off in Oblivion.ini, Quick save never used). My own experience is that menus and Wrye Bash start getting slow after you get over 500 saves, and by 1000 saves I'm not going to take it anymore. I backup all but my most recent saves to my H drive (a 1TB drive used for downloads and backups) and then delete them from Users\[username]\My Documents\My Games\Oblivion\Saves (I usually stop at an even 100 multiple on the save file numbers, so that will leave somewhere between 10ish and 90ish saves in the C drive folder).

 

What I would do if I found myself in the spot you find yourself in is backup all of my saves, delete all saves from C drive and then rename my most recent save file (or files as you will need to take care of any cosaves as well) to the correct number ... so that would be your last correctly numbered save plus the number of misnumbered saves that came after it. I would then deactivate or uninstall Simple Saves and copy that renumbered save (and renumbered cosaves) to your Users\[username]\My Documents\My Games\Oblivion\Saves folder and make a new save using the vanilla game Esc menu.

 

If the save number is now correctly following from your fixed save then you'll need to decide if you want to reactivate or reinstall Simple Saves.

 

- Edit - +1 :ninja: for Striker!!

Edited August 27, 2020 by Striker879

[Oblivionaddicted]

Sorry - just got back to this.

 

I don't know exactly, but there are 2200 files total in there, so making allowance for .obse and .bak files, I'd guess maybe 1000 or so at most, and likely less than that.

 

For context, I have almost 40 different characters, each with their own set of 12 rotating autosaves (Simple Saves), so that's maybe a dozen or so hard saves per character.

You shouldn't keep so many saves, keep something 5 menu saves in your folder in addition to your quicksaves and auto saves and you should be fine.

 

My current Oblivion party is more than 3800 hours long, I keep that quantitiy of saves in their base folder and never had any trouble with my saves numbers.