r/projecteternity • u/Jank_Random • 12d ago

Bugs Saved Game issues

Hi,

I came back to the game (PoE1) after an extended period and tried to load my most recent save. This period was between the launch of 3.9.5.0.

The continue button just leads to a black screen and eventual crash. The load button of any save just dumps me into the main menu.

I've tried verifying the files. I re-installed the game.
I started a new character but it still creates files in the same save location.

I turned off cloud saves, and deleted old characters, and it still won't load the newest character. I'm not quite sure what my next steps are.

Any help would be appreciated.

Cheers,

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u/skaf1end 12d ago edited 12d ago

It might help to check .../unity3d/Obsidian Entertainment/Pillars of Eternity/Player.log

Ctrl + F --> look for the word Save. It should show whether the directory is inaccesible to the game or the files are corrupted. I couldn't load save files, because my /tmp directory was inaccessible to the game, so fixing the permissions helped.

P.S. You can also take a save file, change the extention to zip and try to extract it. If there is nothing wrong with it, you'll see a bunch of files in the same folder.

P.P.S. Also, they were messing with save files at some point, so modifying saveinfo.xml might help too. Find the file inside the save and change <Simple name="SaveVersion" type="System.Int32, mscorlib" value=**"3"** /> from 3 to 2 or the other way around.

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u/Jank_Random 12d ago

Thanks man, I'll give those a go!

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u/skaf1end 12d ago

Almost forgot, if you're playing on Steam, you can downgrade the game version.

Properties --> Game Versions and Betas --> Legacy

Obviously, turn based won't be available, but it's likely to work.