andasreth: Hi!

I've run across something INCREDIBLY frustrating that I haven't encountered before. I've played the full game on Steam before at a friend's house so I know how annoying the save system is in general, but this is something different.

I played around 3 hours last night, almost got to Gran Soren. Quit the game, restarted this morning. Suddenly it goes through all the initial settings again (brightness, subtitles, etc.) then goes to the title menu - where my save is gone. All there is is "New Game", no load, no nothing.

I tested it by running through the tutorial dungeon again and quitting to main menu. This time I see the load button and everything works fine.

However if I quit the actual game and restart, it goes through the settings initiation again and all my progress is deleted. During these settings changes it creates a new save file, essentially wiping all my progress each time...So I can't play the game, save and quit and continue playing as the save is rewritten all.the.time.

Obviously I have to quit the game whenever I'm not playing it. I can't keep it running in the background for the 100 hours or so it took me to finish last time. Making a backup of a manual save does not work because as mentioned, the game overwrites it during the "settings" phase.

It's almost like the game is treating each startup as the first time I'm launching it, and deleting all my progress.

I've no idea what and how to change but I'm on the verge of asking for a refund, as this is just a new-game loop I can't get out of.

Would appreciate any advice!

DT1: Apparently renaming the file from ddda.sav to DDDA.SAV will fix this

stitch123: Nope. From DDDA.SAV to DDDA.sav.

GOG's tech guy said so herrum/dragons_dogma_dark_arisen/game_not_saving_starting_a_new_game_each_time_i_play/post7[/url]

andasreth: Hi!

I've run across something INCREDIBLY frustrating that I haven't encountered before. I've played the full game on Steam before at a friend's house so I know how annoying the save system is in general, but this is something different.

I played around 3 hours last night, almost got to Gran Soren. Quit the game, restarted this morning. Suddenly it goes through all the initial settings again (brightness, subtitles, etc.) then goes to the title menu - where my save is gone. All there is is "New Game", no load, no nothing.

I tested it by running through the tutorial dungeon again and quitting to main menu. This time I see the load button and everything works fine.

However if I quit the actual game and restart, it goes through the settings initiation again and all my progress is deleted. During these settings changes it creates a new save file, essentially wiping all my progress each time...So I can't play the game, save and quit and continue playing as the save is rewritten all.the.time.

Obviously I have to quit the game whenever I'm not playing it. I can't keep it running in the background for the 100 hours or so it took me to finish last time. Making a backup of a manual save does not work because as mentioned, the game overwrites it during the "settings" phase.

It's almost like the game is treating each startup as the first time I'm launching it, and deleting all my progress.

I've no idea what and how to change but I'm on the verge of asking for a refund, as this is just a new-game loop I can't get out of.

Would appreciate any advice!

stitch123: Do you guys use GOG Galaxy with cloud saves enabled? I do and haven't encountered this problem. Maybe try that and uninstall it after you finish the game?