Im pretty sure that quicksaving causes problems, so I wondered if I could change the quicksave to a normal save that doest overwrite?

I think that function is hard coded. You may want to look at Streamline, and its streamsave feature.

Also of note, autosaves aren't any better.

Use Streamline's autosaves, and you can also map Streamline's quick save to the original quick save keys. See the ReadMe for more details.

I know that the conventional wisdom is that quicksaving/quickloading is bad - and I'm sure it is in certain situations, as when scripts are running etc. But I have to say that I've been using quicksaves/quickloads extensively throughout the years with both Morrowind and Oblivion and never had any issues whatsoever that I can recall. (Although I've had some minor issues with quickloads in Fallout 3 under the latest patches.)

Quicksaves seem slightly more likely to go corrupt, and if you use them extensively that can throw you back quite a way since the quicksave overwrites previous quicksaves.

Streamline and Auto-Save and Time both allow you to re-map the quicksave key to use their quicksave alternatives which cycle through a series of quicksaves and alleviate the overwriting problem.

Its also rather hit and miss.... Some folks can overwrite files and never have a problem. Others (myself included...) overwrite ONCE, and the file is toast. I have no clue what that is all about, or what contributing factors there are. I just chalk it up to a quirk of the game, and live with it. (and make new saves a lot.....)

I'm sort of a saveaholic so I'm using Streamsave, quicksaves and also lots of hard saves.



Hm, wonder if it is connected to operating systems or something. Anyway, after thousands of hours playing Morrowind/Oblivion and tens of thousands quicksaves/quickloads I've never had a single issue. Should count as a pretty extensive test run of quicksaves/quickloads by now. Not that I'm recommending it - just reporting my own experiences with them.

Well ok, ill just use Streamlines saving then.

http://sites.google.com/site/oblivionpoinfo/stabilization/streamline

Quicksaving many times should be fine, however, you should always make a hard save every now and then too. Occasionally in a new slot as well.

I've used quicksaves for (wild guess) 2,000 hours of Oblivion playing over the last three years with no problems.

My system is to use quicksaves regularly during a playing session, with hard saves every hour or so. At the end of a session I delete the quicksave file, then start a new one next session.

My game seems more stable if I play with regular quicksaves (eg at every loading door) , I assume that the game is doing a bit of housekeeping when it saves.

Unless, you are using SL, I doubt that last part. Oblivion does not know the meaning of "housekeeping." Therefore, SL, OSR, Lazy PCB...

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I have the same feeling. Seems to me the game does some kind of purging before quicksaving. If I enter a new cell and do a PCB and then a quicksave, it seems to free up some additional resources somehow. No idea if it really does and what it does if so. I'm using SL btw. I also delete the quicksaves after a session.

Streamline purges on save by default. I do not even know if you can turn that off without turning off StreamPurge.

This could be why you never have problems, or at least have never noticed anything odd - or at least have never connected a problem to a "dirty" load.

I mean any inconsistency with a save data is "corrupting", even if the game doesn?t CTD. Could be that the problems wont 99% sure creep in during just one session, even if you save and load a lot.

Yeah, I know, but this is after doing a PCB - so it seems it does it somewhat differently than an ordinary PCB. I mean, if I do a PCB after a PCB nothing happens, but if I do a Quicksave after a PCB something happens. Vague, I know...