This is quite a major overlooking by Bethesda. My level 22 Nord, with about 25-30 hours gameplay over 10 days, was gone. Only after about half an hour of gameplay as my new character did I go to save my game manually, and noticed only one save file. Even with all the autosave features turned off I noticed it happening when I jumped down from the carriage as my new character, which I thought a bit odd. So I had one save file for my level 22 Nord, the manual one which I believed would be safe when I started afresh, just like I had done countless times in Oblivion, FO:3 and FO:NV.īut no. You've likely played through the whole intro/tutorial section and more by the time you want to switch back to your other character, so all your autosaves will be overwritten by the new character too if you had the autosave settings turned on.įor me, my game was starting to suffer framerate problems and I had heard that turning off all the autosave features and deleting the autosave files actually improved performance. So if you were regularly using this slot as your manual save for your first character then it saves over it when you start a new character.įor most it will be too late by the time they realise what's happened. What it effectively does is create a new manual save.
When you start a new game on the ps3 version of Skyrim, it 'autosaves' when you jump down from the carriage in Helgen, even if all the autosave settings are turned off. I'll try and make it clear to those who don't understand. It is quite confusing at first, it isn't an autosave overwriting your hard save just a hard save that was automatically created by the game.īethesda used this idea because in Oblivion some people moaned about having to escape prison when starting a new game, they were told to make a separate save before leaving the sewers so they don't have to start from prison but some still complained. I remember losing my save in Fallout 3 but i had already beat the game and it was saved on the last part so i couldn't roam, i lost that save after starting a new game but wasn't much of a loss though i learnt how the save system worked after that. The auto created hard save is actually your new game but skipped passed the intro, Fallout 3's was created before leaving the vault so in Fallout 3 and Skyrim you start a new game from the auto created hard save.
Skyrim saves work just like Fallout 3 saves system, after you start the game it auto creates a hard save so if you start a new game after that you'll lose saves.
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