Skyrim saves all corrupted $@!#$@!#@! HELP

[frozentundra123456]

It does sync to cloud.

You sure?? Guess I dont understand how this works then. I started one character on a laptop and when I switched to my desktop, that character did not show up. It was OK because I wanted to start a new character anyway, but still?? I was playing mostly offline on the laptop, but I sure I went online a few times too. Is there a way to decide whether you play using local saves or cloud saves, or do you have to do something to enable synching with the cloud?

 

[Red Storm]

It does sync to cloud.

I doubt that. Most people's save games are filled with hand picked mod data. Saving to the cloud makes no sense unless mod files were also saved to the cloud.

 

[zinfamous]

You sure?? Guess I dont understand how this works then. I started one character on a laptop and when I switched to my desktop, that character did not show up. It was OK because I wanted to start a new character anyway, but still?? I was playing mostly offline on the laptop, but I sure I went online a few times too. Is there a way to decide whether you play using local saves or cloud saves, or do you have to do something to enable synching with the cloud?

well, it is supposed to. it is actually part of the news feed on steam for Skyrim and I remember distinctively when it was announced shortly before or after a major update.

However, the game had many issues syncing when I would load Skyrim "Skyrim failed to sync to steam cloud. Note that if you continue, your progress may not be saved on the cloud."

I got that message several times. Sometimes, just close and reload and it would work. Now, if steam has since removed this feature because it might not have worked well--that is possible I guess. I haven't noticed any of those problems in quite some time.

 

[zinfamous]

I doubt that. Most people's save games are filled with hand picked mod data. Saving to the cloud makes no sense unless mod files were also saved to the cloud.

It could be that they removed it because of this issue, but never announced it.

They certainly did announce that cloud syncing was implemented, but like I said, it always caused problems on load.

 

[Red Storm]

It could be that they removed it because of this issue, but never announced it.

They certainly did announce that cloud syncing was implemented, but like I said, it always caused problems on load.

I think that only applies to things like game settings/controls. The save games have never been cloud synced.

 

[shortylickens]

I doubt that. Most people's save games are filled with hand picked mod data. Saving to the cloud makes no sense unless mod files were also saved to the cloud.

No, save games can still work without the mods. Try loading up a save game you have right now that also uses mods and see what happens.

 

[Red Storm]

No, save games can still work without the mods. Try loading up a save game you have right now that also uses mods and see what happens.

I know it works, but if I mod my game, then why would I be interested in playing with no mods?

 

[DaveSimmons]

OP: are you overclocking your system? You may need to go back to stock settings to play safely.

 

[Joseph F]

It's sounding more and more like Jim here just torrented his copy, for his lack of willing to contact Steam customer service. :thumbsdown:

 

[shortylickens]

I know it works, but if I mod my game, then why would I be interested in playing with no mods?

You can. If you have to reinstall your whole OS and game again, just make sure you have the same mods installed. Your save game will work just fine.

 

[Red Storm]

You can. If you have to reinstall your whole OS and game again, just make sure you have the same mods installed. Your save game will work just fine.

I'm saying it only partially accomplishes the syncing (the mods don't get synced), so it's not a feature at all for someone like me who absolutely will not play unmodded Elder Scrolls games. I saved my games to a DropBox folder anyway, so transferring to my friend's laptop was actually quite easy once I went through and manually installed all the necessary mods again.

 

[jimrawr]

It's sounding more and more like Jim here just torrented his copy, for his lack of willing to contact Steam customer service. :thumbsdown:

Um no. Its funny how a few of you are jumping on what I said about understanding why people opt to download the pirated version of a game when you have issues like this that prevent you from playing the game, and without a reasonable time to fix the game from the maker. This issue is reported going back from the week of release, and still no fix. I can pretty much guarentee if you give me access to your PC I will find something you illegally downloaded, be it a tv show, movie, or an MP3. So get off your high horse, I PAID for this game as I do my other games.

 

[Lonyo]

I assume Skyrim might save some .old or .bak versions of saves (most recent autyosave and quicksave). You might try renaming one of those and see fi that is also corrupted.
It might be that if some issue hit all the files with the same extension somehow, those might have escaped.
If reinstalling didn't/doesn't work.

 

[zinfamous]

If Skyrim is modded only through the creation kit, which is a steam toolkit, and loads all subscribed mods every time you load Skyrim, then why wouldn't it be easily syncable?

same Steam account on two computers, it should provide identical functionality, no?