Error loading save

THE ONLY WORKAROUND i found out is to make sure i always save at lighthouse, looks like it is the only place the game can load the save without issues, lost almost 30 hours of progress before figuring this out, be it a manual or a autosave i can always load the game if it is in the lighthouse, make sure to always fast travel to the lighthouse and save your game before exiting. Unfortunately it is the most guarantee way besides installing it on SSD ( Which did not work for me, i just wasted time deleting stuff from my SSD to free space for Dragon Age) to not lose your data until they fix this, there is no reason they should not have fixed this 6 days after the release, it is making the game unplayable for a lot of people

The only way ive found around it is to load an early save that you yourself saved, and not an autosave, pretty much the earliest one that works. Then load into the save you want to play after being in the game. Wack ik

Leaving this reply here as well, as I used a combo of your comments and ones in another thread to make this work for me.

Restating what someone said above or in one of the other threads I had open, but I have a consistent workaround on this now. I am hopeful others can use it. The complete inability to load happened to me after a few hours (I moved computers and thought that was why) and I just made a new save to start again. But while tweaking settings to get rid of a weird every few seconds hiccup, after a driver update it did it again.

Workaround: load into whatever it lets you. Earliest save is fine. My character now looked like Default McPreset but it actually loaded me back just outside the bar. Now, load the save you actually wanted to play from that earliest load it let you do (from pause menu). 

I was able to get back my several hours ago save this way as well as get my customizations back in the 'new' save id made, so this works cross - character as well. It fixes both customizations not showing as well as failure saves, at least for mine

If the game doesn’t work on hdd the description on the game page shouldn’t say it does. 

When is this getting fixed? Got a massive patch and still bugged. I spend money on a game I can't play. Fix it.

Same issue here.

Same issue. After trying everything with no luck, I remembered there was a warning that the game needs to be installed on an SSD. I ignored this originally because I didn't want to manage space in that moment and didn't think much of it. I moved the game to the SSD and it's loading faster in general and my save file is loading up just fine.

I fixed it by reinstalling the game on an SSD.

No loading issues now, and could continue with the save that wasn't loading previously. Sucks that this is the only fix tho.

Getting the same issue, I've tried everything. Only fix I've found is to reload a super old save, but sometimes not even that works- every single save file is bugged. 

Edit: all of the tech issues I was having were solved by moving the game from my hard drive to mu computer, I recommend trying this

POSSIBLE FIX:

I was having this issue last night and again this morning. Tried several possible work arounds that were suggested in the comments. The one that wound up working for me is I moved all my installed files for the game onto a different hard drive that was an actual SSD (I previously installed on a regular HD because it had more room than my SSD). When I relaunched the game, it successfully loaded my save. Rook had the default skin, but that's something that can be changed at the mirror of transformation (and you should be able to import/apply the skin from your prior saves.) Hope this helps others!