So discussing things on the Steam forms I thought I'd play around a bit more despite the prevasive anger I have at how terribly broken this game still is. If you have the looping save problem I've found a crappy work around on Windows. I've haven't tested this in Linux yet though I know the problem also affects the Linux client. I'm sure it's the same BS just a different directory path.
The games save system is a freaking mess using two temp folders and the actual save folder. Of the two temp folders one is the culprate breaking saves and causing loops back to the menu on load, or loading to a black screen or the last loaded area and setting the game to PAUSE from which you can't unpause.
The following two directories in Win 7 will house temp save data.
*C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Obsidian Entertainment\Pillars of Eternity\CurrentGame\TempSaveData
C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Temp\Obsidian Entertainment\Pillars of Eternity
The directory with the asterix is the problematic one. Deleteing everything in that folder will stop the looping and all the saves will work again. Every time you go to load a game you will have to go to this folder and delete its contents.
Having said that I've also found with Steam Sync disabled the game still seems to look for saves on the cloud. Given some conjecture about Steam Sync being the culprate behind various save corruption and deletion that is an issue but this game is nothing BUT issues...
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So discussing things on the Steam forms I thought I'd play around a bit more despite the prevasive anger I have at how terribly broken this game still is. If you have the looping save problem I've found a crappy work around on Windows. I've haven't tested this in Linux yet though I know the problem also affects the Linux client. I'm sure it's the same BS just a different directory path.
The games save system is a freaking mess using two temp folders and the actual save folder. Of the two temp folders one is the culprate breaking saves and causing loops back to the menu on load, or loading to a black screen or the last loaded area and setting the game to PAUSE from which you can't unpause.
The following two directories in Win 7 will house temp save data.
*C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\Obsidian Entertainment\Pillars of Eternity\CurrentGame\TempSaveData
C:\Users\YOURUSERNAME\AppData\Local\Temp\Obsidian Entertainment\Pillars of Eternity
The directory with the asterix is the problematic one. Deleteing everything in that folder will stop the looping and all the saves will work again. Every time you go to load a game you will have to go to this folder and delete its contents.
Having said that I've also found with Steam Sync disabled the game still seems to look for saves on the cloud. Given some conjecture about Steam Sync being the culprate behind various save corruption and deletion that is an issue but this game is nothing BUT issues...
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