I had this aswell after my save bug, and to get around it i quite the game from the dashboard then switched the xbox off at the wall, it then let me back into the game.
Lost a few hours due to the game not saving (Xbox), won't now take the risk of playing again.
Wonder how this bug never cropped up in the reviews.
Wonder how this bug never cropped up in the reviews.
Feels like either the reviewers didn't play enough to find the bug or just got lucky? Pretty big bug in my opinion though to be discarded. Hoping more Gaming news website start to post this issue
Turn off Instant On in the power options until they fix the bug. I haven't had a problem since and played about 4 times. Also I think most reviews were done on PS4, where this problem doesn't seem as prevalent.
I can 100% confirm this is the reason for the bug. Quick playing the game (Returning to the game after shutting down your xbox properly or exiting to the dash and coming back in) is the issue. The ONLY way to have the game work correctly is to hard reset your xbox every time. And this I'm sure is not good for my console over time. Not only is this impacting gameplay, but also our consoles from the hard resets. This is a serious issue that needs to be fixed as soon as possible and put on high priority.
EDIT: Maybe not 100% and im not a genius XD but I a pretty sure its the reason.
EDIT: Maybe not 100% and im not a genius XD but I a pretty sure its the reason.
Sadly this has messed my game up too. I had shut my xbox down last night but when I booted it up and ran the game it loaded a suspended game state. Noticed a few times over the many hours playing that I couldn't manually save but thought nothing off it, thought auto-save would kick in. Decided to check online hours more playing later and saw this.
Devs gonna comment on this or acknowledge it? I'm playing on Xbox One. Came back from standby which i just paused the game and turned of my box so I could resume quick. Can't autosave as well.
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Forum is broke too. Can't edit my thread and save it.More info:I'll also note that the game was running sluggish and not smooth. I hard powered it down like everyone else. Seems to be okay now. Moral: Don't leave the game open. Save. Quit. Close game. Before shutting down console.
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Forum is broke too. Can't edit my thread and save it.More info:I'll also note that the game was running sluggish and not smooth. I hard powered it down like everyone else. Seems to be okay now. Moral: Don't leave the game open. Save. Quit. Close game. Before shutting down console.
Same problem here on Xbox One. However I did change my system settings on my xbox to turn off the quick boot feature and haven't ran into again...yet. I just wish we could get some sort of acknowledgement from the devs as to whats going on. I really don't get how a bug this huge doesn't get caught on a console. I get PC's, lots of different specs, but console you have identical hardware, drivers, etc. Completely controlled environment, how the hell did this never pop up as an issue during the QA phase?
We are treating this issue very seriously and hope to deliver a fix as soon as possible!
Well I cannot reply with quotes for some reason and I can only use "Quick Reply". In any case, I switched "Instant On" and "Resume Playback" off for another game some time ago and it has not resolved my problem in the slightest. Still multiple hours lost and a different game-breaker forced me to delete save data (hard resets, unplugging, etc. didn't help).
had same issue today on pc after 39 hours .. looks like ha handler that tells the game you cant save hanged up.. tho just starting an other quest that forces saves made sure i could save my progress and restart the game.. i could also not meditate and battle music was playing even tho it was peace in heaven where i was
I can't save as well. But i'm on the PC. I save and when i look at the load files my save isn't there. I'm in the Royal Palace of Vizima now. I can't even begin to comprehend how a gamebraking bug like this would go unnoticed. What the hell do i do, i cant even play the game now.
Use this solution i've discovered to work for me. But it have still not been confirmed by CDPR that it is a problem on the PC...
I've tried to make them aware of it with no luck!
[Temporary solution]:
1) Find your Wticher 3 game directory and go into \dir\x64 folder
2) Right click on the witcher3.exe file and select properties
3) Go into the compatibility pane and check ON the 'Run this program as an administrator' and hit apply
4) Launch the game and try saving either manually or quick save via F5.
This fix should also save your option changes as it creates the missing folders and files under c:\users\[USERNAME]\The Witcher 3 (remember this might be different on your end due to windows usernames and such)
Also by using the above mentioned fix I don't know if they might at some point conflict with a patch that should solve the issue. But so far updates removes the admin right and you have to remember to apply the above mentioned fix again. Else you might risk losing progress, so do so before starting to play after a patch have come out.
Hope it helps people on the PC with this problem, please post if it worked, so we can get some spotlight on the problem/issue!
Thanks Spekael - my mate says your temporary workaround worked for him. I've been dealing with the Xbox One no-save issue, lost a whole night worth of gaming because I assumed it was auto-saving. But, I managed to catch back up pretty quick. Hope the dev crew releases a fix soon.
Same issue here.. Had done a number of manual saves, now seems like I'm stuck.. Is there any work around for XBOX One? 
Really disappointed that something this large got missed, and apparently in various forms on different platforms..
Jay S.
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Not sure a hard reset is required every time. There were plenty of quick saves I had done in starting up the game and it was fine.. In my case, I think it happened right after a level upgrade (which opens up a lot of other paths in the game) ... Don't know if the up leveling has something to do with it or not..
Any suggestions in the meantime??
Jay S.
So... if this helps at all.. Was just playing after a reset, was able to do manual saves fine UNTIL I picked up an item point.. Earlier I said I thought I saw it happening after a level change, so just wondering if it is these "moments" that confound things.. Like I said was doing manual saves fine, got the item point and couldn't after that.
Also, I've NEVER had an issue with Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag.. I notice (after exiting Witcher - when it was having an issue), that after that, AC Black Flag IV was also not restoring saved / suspended games properly, so I'm now wondering if something in Witcher is messing up the XBOX One restoring saves once it has an issue. Just passing along observations..
Jay S.
Really disappointed that something this large got missed, and apparently in various forms on different platforms.. Jay S.
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Not sure a hard reset is required every time. There were plenty of quick saves I had done in starting up the game and it was fine.. In my case, I think it happened right after a level upgrade (which opens up a lot of other paths in the game) ... Don't know if the up leveling has something to do with it or not..
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Any suggestions in the meantime??
Jay S.
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So... if this helps at all.. Was just playing after a reset, was able to do manual saves fine UNTIL I picked up an item point.. Earlier I said I thought I saw it happening after a level change, so just wondering if it is these "moments" that confound things.. Like I said was doing manual saves fine, got the item point and couldn't after that.
Also, I've NEVER had an issue with Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag.. I notice (after exiting Witcher - when it was having an issue), that after that, AC Black Flag IV was also not restoring saved / suspended games properly, so I'm now wondering if something in Witcher is messing up the XBOX One restoring saves once it has an issue. Just passing along observations..
Jay S.
Could be very likely the case on xbox, since the problem on the PC is getting permission to write on the harddrive, which providing admin rights to the exe file solves.
But good observation
/Spekael
I had this happen last night on the PS4. I normally don't use the rest mode, but after a recent system update that comes up as the default option when shutting down, and the load times are damn long, so I figured, why not.
I woke the PS4 from rest mode, and then ran around exploring and saving periodically - and eventually, on the outskirts of Novigrad, the game crapped out on me. I couldn't save manually, when I tried to load the most recent save it came up as corrupted, when I tried the second-latest save it got stuck reloading, and though I was able to shut the game down, my PS4 got stuck when I tried to reboot it and I had to do a reset to safe mode. (the "hold power button for 10s" kind)
I was able to load up the game after that, delete the corrupted save, and continue playing. (nervously saving even more often than usual, and periodically checking to see if the saves looked OK - the corrupted save was missing its thumbnail image, though I don't know how reliable an indicator that is) Got through 3 or 4 hours without incident. Read up on the problem a bit, saw that it seemed to be mostly an Xbox One issue but there were a couple of people who reported in on the PS4, and decided to just shut the game down and power down the PS4 this time... Hopefully that will be the end of it. Really hoping to get some gaming in this long weekend.
I retrospect, restarting the game from rest mode has been kind of wonky, at least a couple times - for example, when I started playing yesterday, I noticed that my character was wearing the wrong gear - the night before, the last thing I did was go through the inventory, switch a couple of items for slightly better ones, save, and log off - and now, I was wearing the old gear again. I'm pretty sure something similar happened once before. Despite that, I was able to play for a while and continue to save for a while, so I'm not sure if this is causation or correlation.
I woke the PS4 from rest mode, and then ran around exploring and saving periodically - and eventually, on the outskirts of Novigrad, the game crapped out on me. I couldn't save manually, when I tried to load the most recent save it came up as corrupted, when I tried the second-latest save it got stuck reloading, and though I was able to shut the game down, my PS4 got stuck when I tried to reboot it and I had to do a reset to safe mode. (the "hold power button for 10s" kind)
I was able to load up the game after that, delete the corrupted save, and continue playing. (nervously saving even more often than usual, and periodically checking to see if the saves looked OK - the corrupted save was missing its thumbnail image, though I don't know how reliable an indicator that is) Got through 3 or 4 hours without incident. Read up on the problem a bit, saw that it seemed to be mostly an Xbox One issue but there were a couple of people who reported in on the PS4, and decided to just shut the game down and power down the PS4 this time... Hopefully that will be the end of it. Really hoping to get some gaming in this long weekend.
I retrospect, restarting the game from rest mode has been kind of wonky, at least a couple times - for example, when I started playing yesterday, I noticed that my character was wearing the wrong gear - the night before, the last thing I did was go through the inventory, switch a couple of items for slightly better ones, save, and log off - and now, I was wearing the old gear again. I'm pretty sure something similar happened once before. Despite that, I was able to play for a while and continue to save for a while, so I'm not sure if this is causation or correlation.
This is concerning and I am unfortunately afraid to even play the game at this point. As a victim of Blizzard, UbiSoft, Bungie and now CDPR delivering broken games at launch, I think its time for srudios to strat reapecting their consumer and stop the "we will patch it later" mentality. I for one will no longer be preordering any games. It just does t make sense to pay full price when by the time the game is actually functional I can get it for half off. Or just wait for a game of the year editioN with all the goodies for $20 less.