So, I just lost good 3 hours worth of game time. All of a sudden, when I try to load my games, all the newer save files are gone, invisible, and the latest save file remaining is from 3 hours before hand. I was more than a little upset about this, not only did I get a good portion of the main quest done in this time, I also explored as well, found a few neat guns, ect. My .bak file was also from around that time, before you ask, so my game progress is gone forever
The kicker here is that this is the SECOND time this happened today. Fortunately, the first time around only took me back around half an hour or so before I realized what was going on, and the last save was in a convenient save spot
Now, here is what I do, and I figure that's the problem: I manually save every chance I get, because I got a little paranoid about CTDs, you can see the other thread on here about why that is. So, in a single game session, I can end up with about 200 game saves or more, before I quit or CTD(Game is surprisingly stable, crash wise, I have bigger problems with scripting errors and save files now). I know that's not the most convenient, or efficient, way to play, and I figure that this is what's causing the game to "Forget" about my latest save files, since I have so many of them. I don't know how gamebryo handles this, but I noticed you can have up to 1000 manual saves in game, so I didn't think this would be an issue
So, my question to you is this: How do you handle saved games? I know a lot of people heavily mod the game here, so we are in the same boat. Is there any specific mod/script you use that auto saves or saves more efficiently(With less of a chance of corruption), or do you simply keep fewer manual saves and quick save/load when needed?
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Edit: So, I just found something interesting. It seems that one of my later save files(Pic Above) has several entries, rather than just two(FOS and NVSE). Moreover, all but one of them have no data on them. That one save file also happens to be my latest save file I can load
So, what I am getting from this is that having too many saved game slots at once tends to corrupt the rest, since that never happened to me on other playthrus where I had way less save files at once(Altho I heard that saving in one save slot constantly ruins game performance). That, or that one particular save file corrupted the rest, and I just didn't notice it(Didn't need to load or quickload since I got to andale). Does anyone here have any experience with this sort of thing, this is the first time in 10 years this is happening to me
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