Playing on PC... Game save count stuck : Fallout: New Vegas

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:19 am

I'm only a couple hours into my game, and here's something I've noticed: while I'm playing, my save count will continue to increase as I save (obviously). However, if I exit the game and come back to it later, once I save it again, it reverts back to 0005 (the number next to the saved game). If I keep saving, it'll once again increase past 5, but this repeats over and over again as I exit the game and start up again. In other words, I feel like I should be up to 20-30 something saves right now but it keeps reverting back to 5 every time I exit the game, come back in, and re-save. I don't know if this will eventually be a problem or what, but I don't understand what's going on. I can only assume it has something to do with Steam.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:16 am

The saved games issue is with Steam Cloud, apparently. It's not synching properly.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1522475

So the problem IS with Steam Cloud (for some reason it syncs the very first save files you made the very first time you played the game) in other words, the save files you make DURING the current session will work until you start up a NEW one.

So first things first, the actual save files are located here, make frequent backups of these files, just in case:
C:\Users\*Username*\Documents\My Games\FalloutNV\Saves\

Now in order for Cloud to not sync back to your old save files and allow the previous ones to show up you have to delete EVERYTHING in this folder:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\userdata\9298493\22380\

(The '9298493' folder might have a different number for you, just find the folder that contains 22380 inside of it, this is the number for New Vegas on Steam). Once that's done, THEN you can launch your game and the previous save files will be there (not the ones you already lost, those are gone, unless you backed them up).

In order for you not to have to manually delete these files everytime, right click on 22380 and follow these instructions:

1. Right click > Properties > Security tab
2. Highlight SYSTEM, click ADVANCED and then CHANGE PERMISSIONS
3. Now hightlight the first item on the list with ALLOW as its type, click on EDIT and tick the first box on DENY.
4. Repeat this process for each item on the list until they're all under DENY

In the future (hopefully not to far -.-) you can just go back to this window and remove all the deny permissions to restore normal Cloud function.

I hope this helps, it's annoying, but the only solution until a fix comes.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:39 am

The saved games issue is with Steam Cloud, apparently. It's not synching properly.

http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1522475

Yeah, I've seen other topics like this. But the issue here isn't with Steam Cloud deleting my saves or anything. The save count is just stuck at 5. It keeps reverting back to it. I hope that this is something that will be addressed in the coming updates.