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Shirrun

20 Feb, 2020 @ 10:07pm

Quick Save and Save option grayed out

As the title says, whenever I load or quickload my save, the game immediately unable to save nor quicksave. If I remember correctly I recently update AAF but I'm not sure if that causing it. And I'm playing it on Very Hard not Survival, and no bitdefender also. I already looked at many forums and all answers are the same, bitdefender was the culprit. So guys could you pls help me, I literally lose my worth of 26 hours of gameplay... I will appreciate all answers. Thank you

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Originally posted by xybolt:

Originally posted by Shirrun:
As the title says, whenever I load or quickload my save, the game immediately unable to save nor quicksave. If I remember correctly I recently update AAF but I'm not sure if that causing it. And I'm playing it on Very Hard not Survival, and no bitdefender also. I already looked at many forums and all answers are the same, bitdefender was the culprit. So guys could you pls help me, I literally lose my worth of 26 hours of gameplay... I will appreciate all answers. Thank you

Those options are being grayed out if there is a saving process running. Since it does appear directly after reload, I suspect your auto-save functionality is glitching.

Did you have considered to turn it off in options, force saving (console "SaveGame tempSave") and reload it after through console ("LoadGame tempSave")?

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Shirrun

21 Feb, 2020 @ 12:30am

Originally posted by _Harbinger:
This happens to me from time to time on PC when I have too many saves. I personally go to Documents>My Games>Fallout4>Saves and delete all but the 2 or 3 most recent saves (also save important save points in a separate save folder too), I have a habit of deleting extra saves now after every game session and I don't have this issue anymore. I don't know what causes this or what the 'official' fix is however this is my personal ongoing fix and it has been working, hope this helps you, cheers.

Trying this right now, just hope it works

Shirrun

21 Feb, 2020 @ 1:09am

Originally posted by _Harbinger:
This happens to me from time to time on PC when I have too many saves. I personally go to Documents>My Games>Fallout4>Saves and delete all but the 2 or 3 most recent saves (also save important save points in a separate save folder too), I have a habit of deleting extra saves now after every game session and I don't have this issue anymore. I don't know what causes this or what the 'official' fix is however this is my personal ongoing fix and it has been working, hope this helps you, cheers.

Nope still can't save

cheshirm

21 Feb, 2020 @ 1:55am

check antivirus log AGAIN - a new AV definition file might be blocking steam/game

check windows security/controlled folder access. if on, add exceptions for steam/game. windows update might have turned it on if you had it off.

if neither of those then the aaf update did something since the game saved before the update

Last edited by cheshirm; 21 Feb, 2020 @ 2:00am

Shirrun

21 Feb, 2020 @ 3:02am

Originally posted by cheshirm:
check antivirus log AGAIN - a new AV definition file might be blocking steam/game

check windows security/controlled folder access. if on, add exceptions for steam/game. windows update might have turned it on if you had it off.

if neither of those then the aaf update did something since the game saved before the update

Well still no results, this is really heartbreaking tho...

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xybolt

21 Feb, 2020 @ 10:21am

Originally posted by Shirrun:
As the title says, whenever I load or quickload my save, the game immediately unable to save nor quicksave. If I remember correctly I recently update AAF but I'm not sure if that causing it. And I'm playing it on Very Hard not Survival, and no bitdefender also. I already looked at many forums and all answers are the same, bitdefender was the culprit. So guys could you pls help me, I literally lose my worth of 26 hours of gameplay... I will appreciate all answers. Thank you

Last edited by xybolt; 21 Feb, 2020 @ 10:21am

Shirrun

21 Feb, 2020 @ 4:20pm

Originally posted by xybolt:
Originally posted by Shirrun:
As the title says, whenever I load or quickload my save, the game immediately unable to save nor quicksave. If I remember correctly I recently update AAF but I'm not sure if that causing it. And I'm playing it on Very Hard not Survival, and no bitdefender also. I already looked at many forums and all answers are the same, bitdefender was the culprit. So guys could you pls help me, I literally lose my worth of 26 hours of gameplay... I will appreciate all answers. Thank you

Those options are being grayed out if there is a saving process running. Since it does appear directly after reload, I suspect your auto-save functionality is glitching.

Did you have considered to turn it off in options, force saving (console "SaveGame tempSave") and reload it after through console ("LoadGame tempSave")?

I'll try this when I got home soon. Thank you for your answer

Shirrun

21 Feb, 2020 @ 11:52pm

Originally posted by xybolt:
Originally posted by Shirrun:
As the title says, whenever I load or quickload my save, the game immediately unable to save nor quicksave. If I remember correctly I recently update AAF but I'm not sure if that causing it. And I'm playing it on Very Hard not Survival, and no bitdefender also. I already looked at many forums and all answers are the same, bitdefender was the culprit. So guys could you pls help me, I literally lose my worth of 26 hours of gameplay... I will appreciate all answers. Thank you

Those options are being grayed out if there is a saving process running. Since it does appear directly after reload, I suspect your auto-save functionality is glitching.

Did you have considered to turn it off in options, force saving (console "SaveGame tempSave") and reload it after through console ("LoadGame tempSave")?

Finally, can save again thanks man
And thanks to you all

Bored Peon has Fallout 4

22 Feb, 2020 @ 9:04am

Originally posted by _Harbinger:
I have read several steam discussion posts on this issue, I Imagine it would be easy to find these discussions and hopefully find more options there if your not already doing so, good luck to you.

I have seen multiple topics on this as well. Except I never remember seeing any actual solutions. I kinda watch them for a solution so I can answer them later.

Originally posted by Shirrun:
Originally posted by xybolt:
Those options are being grayed out if there is a saving process running. Since it does appear directly after reload, I suspect your auto-save functionality is glitching.

Did you have considered to turn it off in options, force saving (console "SaveGame tempSave") and reload it after through console ("LoadGame tempSave")?
Finally, can save again thanks man

Yep. Thanks. Now I know what works for future topics since people refuse to use the search function, lol.

chm

9 Sep, 2021 @ 7:33am

Originally posted by xybolt:
Originally posted by Shirrun:
As the title says, whenever I load or quickload my save, the game immediately unable to save nor quicksave. If I remember correctly I recently update AAF but I'm not sure if that causing it. And I'm playing it on Very Hard not Survival, and no bitdefender also. I already looked at many forums and all answers are the same, bitdefender was the culprit. So guys could you pls help me, I literally lose my worth of 26 hours of gameplay... I will appreciate all answers. Thank you

Those options are being grayed out if there is a saving process running. Since it does appear directly after reload, I suspect your auto-save functionality is glitching.

Did you have considered to turn it off in options, force saving (console "SaveGame tempSave") and reload it after through console ("LoadGame tempSave")?

What do you mean "console savegame tempsave" i don't understand. Can you explain how to do it? thanks

cheshirm

9 Sep, 2021 @ 7:43am

in game, press the tilde key '~'. brings up the game console. you should see
"---" in the lower left corner. enter your commands. press the tilde key again to exit console

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Shirrun

9 Sep, 2021 @ 7:45am

Well didn't played the game again for whatever reasons, but if people still had the same problem I don't think closing the discussion is the better option. Necro is okay too for me lmao

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xybolt

11 Sep, 2021 @ 1:58am

Originally posted by Shirrun:
Well didn't played the game again for whatever reasons, but if people still had the same problem I don't think closing the discussion is the better option. Necro is okay too for me lmao

There is an "unsubscribe" button at top right. If you click on that, you don't get notifications from this thread if there is any new posts :-)

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Conweestador has Fallout 4

1 Jan, 2022 @ 3:10pm

I have been encountering this problem but I found the cause. It is the Overlay Frameworks mod. I uninstalled it and my quicksave and quickload now work and don't grey out the save anymore. I did discover that quicksaving is not the issue. It is quickloading. If you simply load from the pause menu instead of quickloading it seems to work without issue even with the Overlay Frameworks mod. So if that mod is required, that is a work around.

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JRaines94

28 Feb, 2023 @ 8:40am

@Conweestador:

Just an fyi but not everybody has Overlay Frameworks (I don't) and experienced the greyed out save option (so no, OF is not the cause)

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