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 useful progress of their journeys.
As first noticed by IGN, some gamers on the sport’s Steam Dialogue web page and subreddit have encountered a problem the place they’ll’t save their recreation or load an previous file. They have been in a position to 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 all the pieces once more. Nonetheless having the identical concern…”
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 consumer [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 assist web page for gamers going through bugs that pevent them from saving their knowledge. Amongst different issues, it recommend gamers take the next precautions:
Shut down all non-essential applications earlier than beginning the sport
Strive searching to the ‘C:CustomersAppDataLocalLarian StudiosBaldur’s Gate 3LevelCache’ folder and delete the contents
Strive verifying native recordsdata within the Steam library by proper clicking on the sport and choose Properties, swap to the Native Recordsdata tab after which click on on the ‘Confirm Integrity of Sport Recordsdata…’ button.
Strive searching to the ‘C:CustomersAppDataLocalLarian Studios’ folder and rename the ‘Baldur’s Gate 3′ subfolder.
Strive doing a clear boot after which take a look at 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 be certain these are up-to-date or flip them off altogether. The most important factor you are able to do is simply test 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 latest reminiscence.
