Try to do the following:

1) create a new campaign (when the campaign starts the autosave will be created)
2) exit the campaign (you will find yourself in the game main menu)
3) Alt-Tab to the Windows Explorer and open folder "C:\Users\Some_User\Saved Games\Pillars of Eternity" (there you should see the autosave file created at the step 1; let's assume its name is "e140f329-6b43-4294-9513-6123c5932fcd autosave_0.savegame")
4) remove the autosave file, copy you save to this folder and name it "e140f329-6b43-4294-9513-6123c5932fcd autosave_0.savegame"
5) Alt-Tab to the "Pillars of Eternity", go to the "Load" menu and load the autosave (the game will be loaded with your save)

On 4/9/2017 at 11:07 PM, ijk987 said:

Try to do the following:

1) create a new campaign (when the campaign starts the autosave will be created)
2) exit the campaign (you will find yourself in the game main menu)
3) Alt-Tab to the Windows Explorer and open folder "C:\Users\Some_User\Saved Games\Pillars of Eternity" (there you should see the autosave file created at the step 1; let's assume its name is "e140f329-6b43-4294-9513-6123c5932fcd autosave_0.savegame")
4) remove the autosave file, copy you save to this folder and name it "e140f329-6b43-4294-9513-6123c5932fcd autosave_0.savegame"
5) Alt-Tab to the "Pillars of Eternity", go to the "Load" menu and load the autosave (the game will be loaded with your save)

Not sure if you'll see it since it's a 7 year old post, but this works perfectly, thank you so much! Truely helps a lot