Baldur’s Gate III is taking up Steam proper now, however one small save bug is stopping some gamers of their tracks and forcing them to lose invaluable progress of their journeys.
As first noticed by IGN, some gamers on the sport’s Steam Dialogue web page and subreddit have encountered a difficulty the place they will’t save their recreation or load an previous file. They have been capable of create their characters and start taking part in the sport for half-hour to an hour earlier than first encountering the difficulty. “I attempted exiting and restarting the sport,” wrote one participant. “Needed to undergo the character creation and every part once more. Nonetheless having the identical situation…”
The issue seems to happen for some gamers when the sport makes an attempt to sync cloud saves. They’ve had succes with the next workaround from Steam person [NSC]Hybelkanin:
1. Flip off the Cloud Sync to Baldur’s Gate 3
2. Take away the folder “C:UsersmyUserAppDataLocalLarian StudiosBaldur’s Gate 3″
3. Begin the sport and never allow the Cloud Sync.
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It hasn’t labored for everybody, nonetheless. Larian Studios is conscious of the problems and has already posted an in depth help web page for gamers dealing with bugs that pevent them from saving their information. Amongst different issues, it counsel gamers take the next precautions:
Shut down all non-essential applications earlier than beginning the sport
Attempt looking to the ‘C:CustomersAppDataLocalLarian StudiosBaldur’s Gate 3LevelCache’ folder and delete the contents
Attempt verifying native information within the Steam library by proper clicking on the sport and choose Properties, swap to the Native Information tab after which click on on the ‘Confirm Integrity of Recreation Information…’ button.
Attempt looking to the ‘C:CustomersAppDataLocalLarian Studios’ folder and rename the ‘Baldur’s Gate 3′ subfolder.
Attempt doing a clear boot after which check the sport.
Larian Studios says that some gamers have skilled save irregulatiries with anti-virus and backup applications that monitor disk exercise like BitDefender and Home windows Defender, so ensure these are up-to-date or flip them off altogether. The most important factor you are able to do is simply verify to ensure your save button is working within the menu so that you just don’t play for hours with out realizing one thing’s up.
Luckily, it doesn’t seem that the difficulty is tremendous widespread in the intervening time, and to date gamers haven’t reported working into tons of different bugs, crashes, or efficiency points. Fingers crossed, Baldur’s Gate III seems to be one of many cleaner blockbuster PC launches in current reminiscence.
