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Anonymous

8 years ago

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Where did all my DAI saves go?

So it's an old game I realise, so probably not high on the agenda, but is there a reason why I've lost over 300hours worth of saves in Dragon Age Inquisition? I haven't changed the computer, and in any case my now completely save-less game was loaded from the cloud. More than slightly annoying since I had a few different relatively high-level inquisitors saved so I could play through a variety of different ways and it's all gone.

Anyone have any ideas as to why this has happened and how I might be able to fix this or do I have to play through another 300 hours?

(Spoiler; I won't. I probably won't play the game again if I've lost these saves now because it'll just annoy the hell out of me that I can't play/finish the games I'd already started for what is probably a fault on Origin's end.)

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mcsupersport
8 years ago
Honestly, I don't know for sure.....

BUT my experience is Cloud saves are chancy at best and not something I would trust to safeguard my data and would only use it if I had to play the game on multiple computers and didn't have an easy way to move the data between them.

IF you allowed cloud saves to overwrite your local saves and something had happened to erase them from the cloud or corrupt them, then sorry you are probably out of luck. IF you had backed up your data in the recent past, you MAY have access to them in the backups you made.

C:\Users\Your user name\BioWare\Dragon Age Inquisition\Save

^^ typical location for saves from DAI and in general all Bioware games. IF you have files here, then they may be corrupted and removing a few MAY get you back to where you want.....or you MAY can start a new game get to the first place you can save, save the game, and then attempt to load into one of the other saves by changing the character you are looking at....maybe.

Your best hope is that the game "lost" the saves files from it's memory, and by creating a new character you make it remember where it is and then see the saves that are already there....

Good luck, sorry you are having issues, but honestly, just try to look at it as an opportunity to experience DAI again, as it can be a fun and beautiful game.

4 Replies

mcsupersport
Hero+
8 years ago
Honestly, I don't know for sure.....

BUT my experience is Cloud saves are chancy at best and not something I would trust to safeguard my data and would only use it if I had to play the game on multiple computers and didn't have an easy way to move the data between them.

IF you allowed cloud saves to overwrite your local saves and something had happened to erase them from the cloud or corrupt them, then sorry you are probably out of luck. IF you had backed up your data in the recent past, you MAY have access to them in the backups you made.

C:\Users\Your user name\BioWare\Dragon Age Inquisition\Save

^^ typical location for saves from DAI and in general all Bioware games. IF you have files here, then they may be corrupted and removing a few MAY get you back to where you want.....or you MAY can start a new game get to the first place you can save, save the game, and then attempt to load into one of the other saves by changing the character you are looking at....maybe.

Your best hope is that the game "lost" the saves files from it's memory, and by creating a new character you make it remember where it is and then see the saves that are already there....

Good luck, sorry you are having issues, but honestly, just try to look at it as an opportunity to experience DAI again, as it can be a fun and beautiful game.
Anonymous
8 years ago
I think they are gone for good ☹️, what I think happened was my partner logged into origin on my PC and played DAI, and it overwrote the local files with his cloud saves, and then when I went onto mine it probably did the whole "your cloud saves are out of date" thing, and I didn't think twice about clicking upload.
mcsupersport
Hero+
8 years ago
@Sansanvi91

My personal opinion.....

Unless you need to regularly transfer saves between computers or share saves between players, then I would turn it off. It is far safer to make a backup saves folder and simply copy saves there manually every so often then to rely on cloud saves. I have had three experiences with Cloud backup in my household.....1, my saves were lost to corruption, once my son's saves were restored from a system wipe out, and third was my son lost his saves due to cloud overwrite......so we have a 1 for 3 record in my house, and now all cloud saves are disabled.

Sorry you had this happen, but it does give you a chance to restart some characters and get back into the story fully. I often find I can't connect with a character if I put them down for awhile and try to go back later....I often end up scrapping them anyway and starting over.
sirhcwarrior
New Vanguard
6 years ago
i just had this happen to me and i'm so pissed off at Origin doing this (deleting my local saves) that i want to burn EA to the ground. i lost three whole character histories with one stupid click. i didn't even turn ON cloud saves. the program has NEVER asked me this or indicated there was a conflict before this last f*cking update.