Yes, my quick saves and manual save are not working, no matter what I do. So I am waiting for a patch before I play anymore.

Will someone give me a breakdown of what to look for and delete once im in the falloutprefs.ini

im running Vista 64-bit incase anyone was wondering, please help i just won 20000 caps from the casino then i went outside, it saved, then my game froze when i walked around a little, really dont want to lose that save, my last saves it shows are also around 3 hours from where i was!

This solved my problems, thank you. (The one place I didnt look)

So far all seems to be fine.

I am curious what the problem actually is here though. Many blame the STEAM Cloud for the issue, and understandably so.
But I have quite a few games that use this same feature, CIV5 for example, and never had a issue like this. It is odd to say the least.

At any count, deleting those files seems to have worked, at least for me. Thnaks again.

Getting snide with people isnt helping.

This game shouldnt of even launched in this state. No quality control what-so-ever. The save problem is just 1 of the game crippling bugs that im having. Ive leveled 5 times so far, yet im still lvl 2. I get randomly teleported to areas as if i fast traveled. NPC appear from no where and constantly lock me in with spammed conversation (funniest part is the line im harassed with is "I dont have time to talk now maybe later").

This game launch is a complete atrocity and the developers should be ashamed there asking money for a completely broken product even PC Gamers Magazine stated the bugs arent just crippling, they make the game completely unplayable. When we have to rely on "average joes" to help us fix gaming problems you can tell the industry is going downhill. I can see why piracy is so rampant.

And yes before you even suggest it my drivers, direct x, ect. is completely up to date. I was a tester for Westwood before they sold out to EA.

I am really really really dissapointed in F:NV. Let Bethesda make the games from now on, atleast they worked at launch.

I was playing online. I disconnected from the internet and tried again. Same problem. Manual saves works, quick and auto revert to old versions.

Your not alone. Ive tried everything posted here and on the other forums and so far nothing. Hard saves work, auto/quick revert. If you wanna play you need to hard save like im doing, until then we just need to wait for obsidian to get off there butts and fix the bugs that should of been fixed long before launch. But hey atleast you got some shiney stuff for preordering. :sadvaultboy:

So, i have found walk through of all possible fixes for the saves, none of them did anything, i still have the saves that are 3 hours from where i was, and now the update came out of it, and yet still nothing different on the saves! WTF !!!!!!!!!!!!1

Yup same here, expect them to just trickle updates while tucking there tails between there legs. This is just sad. Atleast i have fable 3 to look forward to still. This game was a total dissapointment.

I am still getting the issue. Not only is it affecting my quick saves, but also my manual saves.....


WTB non-steam version of the game.

The patch did NOTHING to fix my savegame issues.

Why must the damn game insist on using the Steam saves? What an incredibly annoying and rather glaring problem.

If your game crashes, just go to your Documents\My Games\FalloutNV\Save and do one of these:

1) Rename the autosave.fos and the quicksave.fos files to something else (ex. I just won 20000 caps.fos) and it will now be a hard save.
2) Make a copy of the autosave.fos and quicksave.fos files. Windows 7 will name it autosave - Copy.fos. You can leave it at that or rename it as above.
3) Copy the autosave.fos and quicksave.fos to a safe place. If they get overwritten when you restart the game, ALT-TAB out of the game and copy them back to your Save directory.

I'd have to agree with that. The best option is to disable the cloud, and run in offline mode at this point. I gave the steam save thing another go and it decided to load quick and autosaves from yesterday from my test character.