Does the PS3 version really not have the corrupted save issue? I just assumed that all three versions have it because the Xbox 360 and PC versions do. If it's true then I would be very tempted to trade in my Xbox 360 version for a PS3 version.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I've never had trouble with corrupted saves (knock on wood). Mind, the PS3 version isn't without faults, but then again, I think all consoles are dealing with the glitches right now.

Are you talking about specific corrupt save issue? Because I was playing the other day on an African American character, and when I saved, the game actually froze. I waited 10 whole minutes, and finally decided to shut my system off. The game saved fortunately, but after playing for a bit I decided to load up another character who was a Caucasian women. I play in first person most of the time and noticed that when she pulled out her gun, her fingers were black. I took off her armor and switched to 3rd person and noticed her skin tone which was pale had turned black! I loaded up my Asian character and his skin tone had also turned black. I don't mind much, I actually think it's kinda funny.

(FYI, black being my African American character's skin tone, not pitch black.)

No, I'm talking about a bug where every single gamesave file within a game of FNV gets corrupted, and it is impossible to continue the game. It has happened to many people on the xbox 360 and PC, and it seems that there is no particular cause for it. Some people have been 50 hours or more into a game and then lost everything. Which is why I'm reluctant to play the game, and am either waiting for an Xbox 360 patch, or considering switching to the PS3 version.

Unless the game freezes while your saving, no it doesn't have the corruption issue.

It probably has to do with how the 360/PC/PS3 manages saved data. Different operating systems will save data and manage it in different ways. The PC and the 360 probably have similar operating systems. Obviously the ps3 saves files in such a way they aren't vulnerable to the bug, either because it does the job better or the necessary changes to make the game run on the ps3 eliminate the bug.

Actually I'm pretty sure this version has corruption issues with saves. Every save? I haven't read that.


But the game doesn't have to "lock up" or freeze while saving for the save to be corrupted. At least in my case it didn't.

I had a lot of issues, but save data corruption never was a problem for me.

Good to know, thanks. It's nice to know there is a "backup" option if this new patch never materialises.

Don't be overly confident that there aren't save game issues. I believe it's a file corruption that leads to the black screen of death no?

That is definitely a problem on PS3.

Hmm, ok. Either way I'm still going to wait until this big patch comes out. Hopefully that will fix any game-breaking bugs for all platforms. I have no problem whatsoever with small bugs like graphical errors etc in games of this size.

Best thing I can suggest is turn off Autosave. I didn't listen to my own advice, and lost a fair number of hours of progress.

I haven't had any super serious problems (KNOCK ON WOOD!!!!!!), but you gotz ta be on ur toes with this game!

I've had no problems using auto-save, admittedly I only use auto-save on travel but had no problems with it.. I'm having far more problems with my game (seemingly) freezing all the time now.. Lvl 30, 90+ hrs played, save game file size 9.2MB. I can't go 20mins now without the game totally freezing up on me. Damn annoying!

I've not had any saving troubles either, just the usual game freezes.

Plat'd this game on two seperate sign ons and never had a corrupt save file. That's over 300 saves the way I do.


You will get all the same glitches though and a lot of lock ups. You can reduce the lockups if you save often and actually quit out of the game if you want to reload. Just quit out and start again with the load fresh. Also, don't let it load more than 2 or so areas at a time. If you move around alot and the game acts up at all, save and restart. This last run, I am guessing I ended up with about 10-15 lockups out of the 120+ hours of play. Some of those can't be stopped because they are some kind of conflict or other and not due to the memory loss issue.


Save, Quit and Restart if...

1. Pip Boy is at all slower than normal.
2. Lag is at all above the normal stutter while walking.
3. Vendors menus lag at all.
4. Loading Screens take any longer than normal.
5. Anything really, that is not normal during play.

The issues cross all platforms, but this corrupt save file thing is something different for the xbox folk.

There may be a specific save file issue on the xbox. But I wouldn't want anyone running out and buying a PS3 version because they are under the impression there are no issues with corrupted save files.

There are.

Many of us are having problems (usually after an auto save I think, but to say it won't happen with a manual save is irresponsible imo) where the save leads to the dreaded "black screen" and being unable to advance the game. To solve the problem, you must load a previously saved game.

But even that isn't anywhere near as bad as having all your saves corrupted, and not being able to continue the game in any way.

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No, it isn't, I agree with you. Unless of course, you didn't have additional save files- which some people didn't unfortunately... I had them, but had just deleted a bunch, mistakenly the recent ones, so I had to replay over 13 hours of gameplay. (Certainly not as bad as losing the entire game - I don't mean to suggest that. But it was very frustrating none-the less,)

Didn't mean to suggest it was the same thing, but also don't want someone running out and buying another game thinking it is "bug free" when it comes to saves.

Yeah that's fair enough. With games this size, I've always had multiple rotating saves, and for Fallout 3 GOTY I even regularly backed up gamesaves to USB stick folders because of the bugs. But apparently even doing that isn't supposed to work (I've heard that when you copy USB saves back they don't work).

No corrupted saves here. I think it only kept spinning and spinning on 2 saves in 150+ hours. I didn't lose much because I save a lot.

Yeah, Like I said, you aren't going to fix the problems with the game by swapping consoles/pc. Neither is Bethesda. I actually sort of feel sorry for all the people waiting for a patch to address most of the freezing issues that are happening. It's not going to happen.


I'll be happy if they fix the glitches/script errors/conflict errors that they are in control of.



If it were just one save it was messing up I would agree, that even though out of 300+ saves I have never had this problem, what could be called corrupt saves may indeed happen on the pS3. However, the problem happening to the Xbox folk is way different than that and way more fatal.




P.S. Happy Turkey Day everyone!

PS3 has it. I'm waiting on a patch right now because my saves are all corrupted and I can't enter the strip w/out freezing which is keeping me from advancing the game any further. Definitely do not go out and buy a PS3 just to play this broken game. I can think of several great reasons why you should buy a PS3 but none of them have to do with this game.

Why do you keep saying over and over that they won't patch the console version of this game when they clearly stated that a patch is in progress at the current moment and will be released as soon as it passes QA?

I mean, nearly every post I see from you is saying something negative about the possibility (or impossibility as you say) of a PS3 patch being released to resolve the issues with the game. Yet we can all just go to the stickied thread at the top of the page and read Bethesda's statement that there is in fact a patch being rushed right now.

FO3 was a mess when it released and they patched and fixed it I see no reason why they wouldn't show the same support for this game. You act as though they would never bother supporting one of their games on console and yet their history has proven that they are quite dedicated to supporting their products no matter which platform it's on.

Get a grip man and quit with all the negativity.

Good luck to you mate.

FO3 still has the same memory leak issues it always had and it's not just the ps3, it's all platforms. As I've said before, I hope they do patch the stuff they can fix. They did what they could by making this game much smaller, but it's still got the same problem. Havok is dead and its parent company is bankrupt. It's not gonna get fixed, it's ten years old.

I don't know about other people but we have had TONS of issues with this game. The first round of play we went at it ended up having corrupted saved data on it so we couldn't load the game at all so we had to delete all the saved game data on it and restart from the beginning. The second round of play we went at ended up having more corrupted data on it and ended up sending our entire PS3 system into a restore loop because the disk drive was corrupted with data. After resetting the entire PS3 to factory settings and losing ALL our saved data it seems to be working (for now). I talked to Sony to try and resolve our PS3 issues and they said they've have dozens of people call in with system failures/corrupt data after buying/playing this game so I definitely think that PS3 users are also having corrupt data issues as well as XBox and PC users.