Hi all!
First of all, english is not my native language, so please keep that in mind. Alright, on to my problem.
Today I came upon a bug??? (not entirely sure, it’s more savegame related) I found nothing about after searching the internet.
I like to backup my game.db shortly before any thrall of mine will reach lvl 10,15,20 so I can reload the game when I don’t like the perk. Until yesterday everything was fine.
Today I wanted to start the whole procedure again…
tab out the game to backup my game.db file, when I noticed my game.db is two weeks old. Also, all backup files are from a date in 2020 when I played with a different character. Not only that, but they (the backups) all have the same date.
So I quit to main menu to reload my game. Everything is fine. No progress lost. But still no updated savegame files. I reluctantly quit the game then and started it back up. It loaded my game just fine, again no progress lost.
Now, of course, I’m wondering where the game loads my savegame from. Anyone noticed something similar? I’m playing singleplayer, btw.
Have you copied or moved your save game files at some point? That could cause the “last modified” date to change.
Where do you store your backups? In the same folder as the game, or somewhere different? It’s possible that if your backups are close enough to the main game, the game finds them and decides they’re old, autogenerated backups that can be overwritten.
I keep my Single-Player backups on a separate hard drive, and they all seem to be intact.
Turns out I’m a moron. ^^
The ‘last modified’ column in my explorer window wasn’t listed somehow (the day before it was) and I looked at the ‘created’ column. So everything was fine. I noticed when I replaced my game.db with a backup and the date didn’t change.
I work in IT tech support. Believe me, this is the most common cause of computer problems.
It’s not really stupidity, though. It’s just that when an unexpected technical issue occurs, most of us are not conditioned to go into “troubleshooting mode”. The anger, fear, frustration or annoyance we feel at the moment shifts us to a “why the hell doesn’t this stupid shit work grrraaaaargh! mode” instead (yes, including myself), and that makes us miss solutions that, in retrospect, would seem obvious but that, at the heat of the moment, were not. There’s no shame in that, it’s just basic human behavior.
