Hello everyone,
I’m playing the PS4 version of the game and I’m unable to load my saves, the loading wheel gets to about a quarter of the way through before I’m booted to the main menu with the message: “Game Load Failed”
I have been playing on the version 1.04 since I started and I’ve invested approximately 45 hours into the game so far so naturally I’m not starting again. Would someone care to explain what’s going on or how I’m able to continue playing?
Thanks.
Corrupt save. Had this experience myself. Until 1.3 comes out, PS4 users risk this by continuing to play.
Restart system. Then go down list of save till one works. Per Jan’s request, send copies to him. Then, delete.
Going forward (until 1.3 arrives): trim saves and if possible back up saves on external drive
Hey,
the fail got corrupted for some reason and you need to load some of the previous saves. But it would really help us out of you could send me your files before deleting those. It woudl be easier to reproduce this problem on our side and repair it.
Have good day a thank you.
email: jan.rucker@warhorsestudios.cz
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I see, unfortunately I’ve been trimming my saves to a total of 5 and backing them up after each session.
I’ve tried reloading them and they all exhibit this same problem. Does that mean that I’m unable to continue my 45 hour playthrough?
Hello, I’d just like to confirm that with the latest 1.3 patch I am able to access my saves once again!
Thank you Warhorse for the relatively swift response to this issue.
I am on 1.6 and getting tons of game load fails, and it deletes other saves.
How many save files did you have? Reason I ask is sleep save worry me. Schnapps saves give a max capacity alert. Have done sleep saves after overwriting schnapps save and rec’d no such alert. Worried WH hasn’t put in place a tight enough sleep save limit
Typical stuff: have you tried deleting and then reinstalling the game ?
fwiw, I’ve had fatal crashes but no save file corruption with over 75h on 1.6
Necro thread
Necromancy
After reading around, i am now limiting it to 4 to 5 saves total. sleep, quest starts, or schnapps. hope this works…
Same here. PS4. Deleted several earlier save files, played from the last successful load (rescue Hans Capon) a full day past the last quest (Ginger in a Pickle), did a schnapps save, but haven’t tried loading yet. Frankly a tad apprehensive.
We still need your save games to adress this problem fully.
Same problem here. Save and Exit always produces a corrupted save that deletes itself.
Loading old autosaves, particularly post sleep ones, ends up with a corrupted save more often than not.
Already lost a 20hr playthrough after the game corrupted my saves, post june patch. tried it with the game on the external unit, internal unit, on a ps4 pro with boost mode both enabled and disabled, and a ps4 slim internal storage, so i’m fairly sure it’s not a hardware issue.
I decided to shelf the game until a patch, which i see was released yesterday, but i see none of those concerns being addressed, instead moving to fix the DLC bugs. I have no problem with the release of DLC, but maybe it’d be wise to focus on polishing the console port known issues first (nightingale still gets stuck on the chair if you lose the dice game).
I see it’s not an isolated incident, and as far as I can tell, no solution has been offered to PS4 players.
Ironically, that made me buy the PC version, which I’m enjoying very much with no issues so far. I have no problem buying a game multiple times full price to support the devs, and I like what you did with the game, and do want to support you because the market needs more games like this one. But as it is, I feel like I rewarded you for shoddy work. And it’s a game that I feel I’d enjoy more playing on console, laying on a couch on a big screen tv, so I do hope a solution exists (links are welcome - already tried the deleting old saves method, with no success), is on the way, or a problem has at the very least been identified.
Thank you in advance for any advice.
Quick follow up. The game loaded my last Schnapps save no problem. Deleted all but quest and Schnapps saves and so far, so good. One extra precaution I take is to NOT save on exit, or to quit the game at all, but to leave the game running and go straight to the PS4 Power off/wait mode. That way it’s right there where I left it when I fire up the console. FWIW anyway.
The only consistently reliable saves for me are the yellow ones when starting a quest. But after having a taste of playing on PC (completely unmodded, btw), I refuse to go back to PS4 and lose hours of progress because I decided to try to have fun (what a strange concept) with the game and push the envelope a bit, doing terribly outlandish things like exploring the countryside, until a bandit gets a lucky slash and my latest sleep save is corrupted. I guess I could pussyfoot, overprepare, and only explore nearby right after a quest save, but frankly that’d be really boring. I’m not even that careful IRL.
I can’t do that. When the load game failed it deleted the save file, which was a save on exit.
I didn’t have this issue before but I think it’s back.
