My problem is that my auto save won't save. It'll keep the old ones. I've deleted it in the game and in the save folder but it keeps coming back. I dont get how. but again the main thing is just that my current auto saves will not save after I leave the game.

Im having this same exact issue. With my Quicksaves also. So annoying when u lose an hour of play time cause game doesn't save properly.

I agree. I'm currently reinstalling the game completely. I just backed up my hard save. I'm gonna see if that'll get me anywhere I have read some other stuff that may work. Like running it in offline mode. Have you tried that yet?

I'm getting the same thing, my first auto save (outside the docs house) and the first quicksave I ever made are the only ones that are there when I restart the game. I thought it was a steam cloud issue, but I turned off steam cloud and it is still happening.

The worst part is even if I do a manual save when I start the game up again and hit continue, for some reason it thinks the old autosave and qucksave are newer then the newest save and starts me from there. It's kinda irritating.

damn i was really hoping it was a steam cloud issue. well i mean the continue problem; does it work if you load the game from load? it does for me.

I can load everything I save manually.

I've tried everything I can on my end to fix this. Deleted the autosave and quicksave files on my computer. But they come back, even if steam cloud is disabled. I've tried deleting them from inside the game using the load menu, I've even tried deleting them by alt-tabing out of the game while it is running and deleting them making new auto and quick saves then restarting the game. But they keep coming back.

I'm going to try offline mode, and disabling my internet connection next.

well like i said im re installing it and it takes for ......... ever. So i cant really try anything ATM but yeah that hopefully will work...

I just tried going into offline mode. That didn't help.

Then I tried disabling my internet connection, and that didn't help!

The saves keep coming back. So it's something local going on, I have to find where where fallout:NV keeps these backups I guess.

I'm interested to see if a reinstall does help. Please post results.

Yeah I will it's only 50% done ATM. I'm really trying to be optimistic about it but with all the failed solutions it's really getting pretty hard. Anyway in the meantime of it installing I will keep looking into other solutions. good luck though either way.

This nonsense is such a quagmire. There is no doubt if it were properly tested that this would have been caught - as it is so completely prevalent.

I couldn't agree more. I mean I'm kinda tempted to get a console version but I mean there are so many PC bonus's normally. I mean it's not like these bugs are that hard to catch.

I think even some people on the consoles are having problems with saves, and they are also experiencing a lot of crashes as well. And on top of that I would have assumed the PC version would have less problems, since the gamebryo engine is a c++ engine made for the PC, but that does not seem to be the case here.

I've got the same problem happening.

This is the third time I've lost several hours of game play because of it. I have all my setting right, offline mode doesn't do a damn thing, etc. Exact same as everyone above me. It was working fine up until about level 7, too.

I can manually save and load it just fine, but I'm not used to manually saving everything.... so I forget. I just lost levels 15-18, a couple of achievements, a handful of new locations, weapons, crafted items... all totaling about 4 hours.

:thumbsdown:

Anyone have any different suggestions?

I suppose that is the case for some people. I mean i guess I'll be patient, however my friend already beat the game with just some minor issues like occasional lag just like other bethesda games. So i mean it seemed pretty sturdy.

Looks like there is a workaround here in the forums http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1122859-attention-saves-arent-missing/

Apparently fallout is backing up those two saves to programfiles/steam/userdata/ [unique user id number]/22380/remote

I deleted the saves in there and have succeeded in getting new saves stuck lol

They have a batch file work around that you run instead of the launcher or from steam that deletes these for you everytime you start the game. Looks like i'm going to be making myself a batch file from the info in that thread.

After learning this, I'm doubting a reintall with change anything.

The problem is with Steam and its "Steam Cloud" function. It automatically backs up your settings and save files to a folder in its directory. For some reason, when launching New Vegas, it reads from there and from the My Games directory instead of just the My Games directory.

Here's a quick fix for you. You need to find a folder named "remote" for Fallout New Vegas. You can find it in your Steam directory under this path.

Steam\userdata\########\app #\remote (replace app # with the app number steam assigns to your copy of New Vegas)

Right click on the remote folder and click properties. Go to the security tab and click "edit" under the "Group or user names" section. Make sure CREATOR OWNER is selected and click the check box for deny full control. All other boxes should be selected. Hit apply, and click yes to the message that follows.

If all goes well, you should not be able to open the folder by double clicking on it as it says you do not have permission to. That's alright, as now Steam does not have permission to the folder either, thus the settings and saves should default back to the My Games directory.

If you ever need to unlock the folder, go back to properties and click on the security tab again. Click advanced and select CREATOR OWNER again. Click "Change Permissions...", then "Edit..." then click the check box for allow full control, then click ok.

Do those steps above again for any other account that is listed as "Deny". After that, click apply then ok. The folder should then be unlocked.

NOTE: YOUR CURRENT ACCOUNT HAS TO BE THE ADMIN ACCOUNT FOR YOUR COMPUTER IN ORDER FOR THIS TO WORK

Wow. Seriously thanks guys for the help. Unfortunately I got impatient and did the reinstall so when I wake up in the morning I'll try these. Thanks again though

Awesome, much better then dealing with a batch file, no text editing and you can start fallout from the PLAY button in steam and from the steam icon without worries. Just a few clicks. Thanks.

How do i know the app*# Steam applied to my copy of New vegas?

It's 22380, if you look in there you'll see Fallout NV save files in the \remote folder.

The help above worked for me also. Tested it with quick save and autosaves, the game loads from the most recent one created before you quit to desktop, like it should.

ONE ISSUE: Before the patch the game ran smoothly, now it appears there is stuttering going on. The game freezes for a fraction of a second when moving the cursor. I got an Nvidia 275 and played around 8 hours with no fps drops or stuttering before the recent patch on ultra setting. All the progress was lost obviously :angry: since i'm posting here, but stuttering is something new I've noticed.

Once again this is by far the simplest fix to the save issue, thanks again. I can finally start playing my $50.

thx!:) Gonna try this out.

Thank you so much for posting this. I was about to start throwing things (NOT my Razor keyboard) since this wasn't the first time I'd lost hours of work. I attributed the first two time to probable user error. But, though this last one was due to a Microsoft update shutting my system down because I got too engrossed to notice... I KNOW I had just hit F5, so.. yeah... I sure hope this works, and, thanks again.

anyone have a problem were after you save the game then try to re-load it later the game crashes? had this happen with 3 different saves is there anyway to fix it?

Hmm. I only see Authenticated Users, System, Admin, and Users listed as options for this. Am I missing something, or is it one of those?