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Re: After importing character the game stops saving games

System specs?
Install type? (Are you still on the Steam install?)
Any mods?

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  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    I'm still on Steam install. No mods.

    System specs:

    OS: Windows 7

    CPU: Intel Core(TM) i7, 2 cores, 2.67 GHz

    Memory: 8 GB

    Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 880M

  • Truly bizarre.  Something is obviously broken/severly bent on your install.

    What results do you get if your search your drive for [ *.das ] ("dragon age save") files?

    What are the contents of your "\Users\<username>\BioWare\Dragon Age\Characters" folder?

    Should look something like this (I have the "named" characters Cadan and Davit):

    Folder PATH listing for volume Diskname

    Volume serial number is 1A2B-3C4D

     

    C:\USERS\<username>\DOCUMENTS\BIOWARE\DRAGON AGE

    ├───AddIns

    ├───Characters

    │   ├───Cadan

    │   │   └───Saves

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_1

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_2

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_3

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_4

    │   │ (DAO) ├───PostCampaign_1

    │   │       ├───QuickSave_1

    │   │       ├───Slot_1

    │   │       │   ├───SaveName.das

    │   │       │   ├───SaveName.das.met

    │   │       │   ├───Cadan.jpg

    │   │       │   ├───Cadan_Story.xml

    │   │       │   └───Screens.dds

    │   │       ├───Slot_2

    │   │       ├───Slot_3

    │   │       ├───Slot_...

    │   │       └───Slot_n

    │   ├───Cadan1

    │   │   └───Saves

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_1

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_2

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_3

    │   │ (DAA) ├───AutoSave_4

    │   │       ├───QuickSave_1

    │   │       ├───Slot_1

    │   │       ├───Slot_2

    │   │       ├───Slot_3

    │   │       ├───Slot_...

    │   │       └───Slot_n

    │   ├───Cadan2

    │   │   └───Saves

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_1

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_2

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_3

    │   │ (GoA) ├───AutoSave_4

    │   │       ├───QuickSave_1

    │   │       ├───Slot_1

    │   │       ├───Slot_2

    │   │       ├───Slot_3

    │   │       ├───Slot_...

    │   │       └───Slot_n

    │   ├───Cadan3

    │   │   └───Saves

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_1

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_2

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_3

    │   │ (WH)  ├───AutoSave_4

    │   │       ├───QuickSave_1

    │   │       ├───Slot_1

    │   │       ├───Slot_2

    │   │       ├───Slot_3

    │   │       ├───Slot_...

    │   │       └───Slot_n

     

    The pattern repeats for each save for each character for each Campaign/DLC...

    Spoiler

    │   ├───Davit

    │   │   └───Saves

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_1

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_2

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_3

    │   │ (DAO) ├───AutoSave_4

    │   │       ├───PostCampaign_1

    │   │       ├───QuickSave_1

    │   │       ├───Slot_1

    │   │       ├───Slot_2

    │   │       ├───Slot_3

    │   │       ├───Slot_...

    │   │       └───Slot_n

    │   ├───Davit1

    │   │   └───Saves

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_1

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_2

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_3

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_4

    │   │ (DAA) ├───QuickSave_1

    │   │       ├───Slot_1

    │   │       ├───Slot_2

    │   │       ├───Slot_3

    │   │       ├───Slot_...

    │   │       └───Slot_n

    │   ├───Davit2

    │   │   └───Saves

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_1

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_2

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_3

    │   │ (WH)  ├───AutoSave_4

    │   │       ├───QuickSave_1

    │   │       ├───Slot_1

    │   │       ├───Slot_2

    │   │       ├───Slot_3

    │   │       ├───Slot_...

    │   │       └───Slot_n

    │   ├───HurlockVanguard

    │   │   └───Saves

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_1

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_2

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_3

    │   │       ├───AutoSave_4

    │   │ (DSC) ├───QuickSave_1

    │   │       ├───Slot_1

    │   │       ├───Slot_2

    │   │       ├───Slot_3

    │   │       ├───Slot_...

    │   │       └───Slot_n

    │   └───Leliana

    │       └───Saves

    │           ├───AutoSave_1

    │           ├───Slot_1

    │     (LS)  ├───Slot_2

    │           ├───Slot_3

    │           ├───Slot_...

    │           └───Slot_n

    ├───Logs

    ├───News

    ├───Offers

    ├───packages

    ├───Screenshots

    └───Settings

    Do you see something significantly different?

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago

    I don't see anything radically different from what you showed here. That's how it looks for my old saves.

  • I got nothing else.

    Never heard of this before.  I have doezens of characters, and GBs (yes, gigabytes) of saves for several of them,

    Sure you're not running into a disc-space or absolute path+filename length (256 characters) limit?

    Since I refuse to use Steam for any game that doesn't absolutely require it, if I were in this situation I'd do a complete un-/re-install using the EA/Origin version.  No charge, your product code is still vaild.

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    12 years ago
    I'm positive that those are not an issue. On the more positive note the problem seems to have gone away. I don't know how but it did.
    What I'm thinking is that the game, for some reason, couldn't access the save location. What the reason for this was I couldn't say because I changed nothing in that regard. I'm glad that the problem is gone though.