There are many players who are having trouble saving or loading a game save file after the initial release of Baldur’s Gate 3.
The game was under development for the last few years and this kind of issue is sort of expected from the games which are under development.
While it was for some users in the earliest version early release of the BG3, the issue is fixed by the developers side shortly after that.
Suggested: How to Mod Baldur’s Gate 3
But after the release of the official full game, this issue resurfaced for some users.
So, that’s why here in this article we are going to talk about what to do when you are unable to save your BG3 game play or load an already saved game.
Furthermore, we are going to discuss other factors which are affecting the save feature and why save might not work for you.
How to Fix Baldur’s Gate 3 Trouble saving or loading?
There are many reasons why you might be having issues while trying to save your game files the most common reasons include missing game files, Antivirus software, mods, and corrupted cache files. You can easily fix BG3 Saving or loading issues by following this step-by-step troubleshooting guide –
Disable mods (at least temporary)
Mods most of the time primary reasons behind issues such as games crashing or not loading.
Other than those errors, it could also corrupt your saved files. Especially when you are are error messages such as “Your Game files are corrupted”.
When this happens first you need to close the game, Disable any mods which you might suspect are the culprit and start the game.
Now once your game is running smoothly you can make a clean save.
Place this Game and Game folders in the Exception List
Antivirus and firewalls can be quite a headache for gamers sometime.
Other than slowing your game down by its lengthy scanning, sometimes it automatically deletes your game files.
This causes a list of some unexpected issues.
In order to fix this you have to note down your Baldur’s Gate 3 game folder and save the folder and add that folder to your antivirus exception list.
Once these folders and games are added to the exception list, this antivirus won’t affect BG3 games files anymore.
Delete Level Cache from Baldur’s Gate 3 folder
Level caches are temporary caches that you can delete.
Just open the BG3 launcher and navigate to settings > Tap on the Profile folder button > navigate to the “LevelCache” folder and delete everything in it.
Now simply restart the game and see if it fixes the issues for you.
Run “BG3.Exe” as Administrator
Running your games as an administrator might be able to solve game files not working issues for you.
The reason behind this might be that on your computer the game might not have sufficient permission to modify or change files on your computer.
Verify your Game file’s integrity on the Steam library
Another thing you can do is ensure that none of the game files are missing.
And the best way to do that is by checking game file integrity on Steam.
To do that launch the Steam launcher, click on “Baldur’s Gate 3”, next properties, and in the “Installed files” tab hit the “Verify integrity of game files.”
TL;DR
So we have discussed various different factors that might be barring you to save or load your Baldur’s Gate 3 game files including Firewalls, antivirus, in-game bugs, mods, or corrupted save files.
Majority of the time you can easily troubleshoot these issues simply by following the step-by-step troubleshooting in this article.
But sometimes issue could be much more complex and you might need to re-install the game to fix BG3 not saving or loading game files issue.
