Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) Technical Problems Saved game problem

I encountered this problem before, and had a fix that I believe involved copying files, etc. However I cannot remember how I fixed it before.

It seems to be related to saving a game when the character is in motion (moving). Upon loading the game the character reaches the destination, but then the following problems occur.

You cannot navigate freely, by holding the mouse button down. You have to click and then release, and only then will the character move.

You cannot engage enemies. CTRL key is useless as well.

Most importantly, you cannot save your game.

I tried exiting dungeons, sleeping, etc, and nothing seems to fix the problem. This is frustrating because my last usable save is an hour or two behind.

Has anyone got a fix for this problem?

So if you load the save and hit the esc key right away, the save menu option is disabled?

Try deleting all of the files in the '..\Divine Divinity\Run\Dynamic' folder.
This folder is used as a cache for the game. Files are created / copied there from the save game folder when you load, and written / copied from that folder when you save a game. The files will be re-created as required the next time you start Divinity. If there was a corrupt file in that folder, deleting the files should fix the problem.

If you hit the space bar during the load process, so the game starts off paused, does that make a difference? Maybe interrupting the character movement (click somewhere else to change direction, etc) will help (can't hurt to try, anyway).

I tried all the above and still nothing.

Pausing upon loading causes the character sprite to dissapear. Hitting ESC to go immediatley to menu still have grayed out save. Holding keys like CTRL or trying to move in different directions don't work either <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/disagree.gif" alt="" />

I think the only workaround I had was the fact that I had two saves so close together, so I backed up the inventory files and copied them to the save that worked.

Unfortunately that doesn't do much good in this case. Guess I'll have to replay anything I may have done (don't remember my progress anyway).

The game disables saving during cutscenes, and in one case between a couple cutscenes fairly close together. It seems there was a problem during the save process, which has the game thinking it is in a cutscene when that save is loaded. Movement and attacks may also be restricted during cutscenes (I never tried doing either, but it would be a reasonable precaution) which could account for the problems you had with that.

By comparing the problem save to a working save it would be possible to narrow down where the problem occurred, and depending on which file is to blame, it may be possible to fix it. However, with your most recent save only an hour previous, replaying that part of the game would probably be faster.

Yeah. I have a strong reason to believe it has something to do with saving while your character is in motion.