(especially when I am making the round of shops in town) I also hardly use quicksaves because they can become corrupt. I don't see any point in saving every time I go through a door or change cells.

I turn off the autosave in Oblivion like I did in Morrowind. TOYA toys Posts: 3455 Joined: Sat 4:22 am If quicksave used the exact same lines of code that full save did, then it wouldn't be quicksave, plus it's not guaranteed that the programmers didn't do a minor goof up on file I/O streams with regard to quicksave. I too think that quicksave is a streamlined save option and doesn't do it as thoroughly as full save. And then like Tmar, I go an backup those saves to another folder every once in a while.īest practices programming doesn't guarantee that some people don't screw up once in a while, just reduces the amount of screw ups (just google Oblivion's A-bomb & vampire face aging glitches for PC and vampire cure quest glitch for the PS3 ). I usually keep 3 saves (quicksave, savefile1 & savefile2 - which are full saves) which has done me fairly well. Any Oblivion veteran or long time BGS gamer knows to backup their saves when it comes to Bethesda games. Take it or leave it, Pseron is giving you some good advice. Have you got any reason for believing they're different Pseron - can't imagine why anyone would program them to be having just done one of each simultaniously from a new game - they come out at the same size, so my guess is the only thing that's different is that you only have to press one key to perform a quicksave At least on my machine, it seems the game gets scrambled every once in a while.Įlizabeth Davis Posts: 3406 Joined: Sat 10:30 am I have gotten out of full save problems a couple of times by uninstalling then reinstalling the Oblivion game files, then reinstalling a backup copy of my Data folder with all my mods. For what it’s worth, I’ve also had full saves that were corrupt. I only revert to a quick save if there is a crash (about every two or three weeks), or kill someone I shouldn’t have with my long range archery. I do make full saves when my character returns from an excursion, or if she’s done something really important that she doesn’t want to do over again. Didn’t notice that until much later, so I continued on with the new time. The last time something like this happened was just the other day, but the quicksave file wasn’t totally corrupted, because when I reverted back to it after I killed a good guy, it just reset my game hours from 1191 to zero. (For crash recovery.) I get bit about every 200 hours or so and have to go back to the last full save and loose an hour or two. I know it’s dangerous to do, but for years I’ve use Quicksave every time I do something or after five or ten minutes if I’m just wandering around.

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