Larian Studios Forums Divinity - Original Sin Divinity - Original Sin - Technical Issues Weird Saving and Loading problem plus more :(

My game has all of a sudden developed a very annoying problem. It will not not let me load any save file apart from the most recent one and additionally it won't let me save over any existing file. It forces me to create a new save every time. I have a long list of saves, 15 or so and if for example i try to load one near the bottom of the list, the pointer shoots to the one at the top of the list.

I tried deleting the game from Steam and reinstalling it but the problem persists. Anybody know what the cause might be or how to solve it. It feels close to game breaking if my saving and loading is going to be as curtailed as this.

Try browsing to the '..\Documents\Larian Studios' folder and renaming the 'Divinity Original Sin' subfolder.
This folder contains the saved games, configuration files and a level cache folder. Deleting or renaming it will get the game to recreate it on startup; playing the game from a different Windows user account would effectively do the same thing.

After that, start D:OS and start a new game; save a few times, and see if you can over-write a save and load earlier saves. If that works, copy at least your latest save from the renamed folder into the newly created profile's savegames folder.

I've just completely deleted the game again as after the first delete, the Larian folder with all the saves and cache was still there which may have been the problem. If this doesn't work, I don't know what will. Could the problem causing this be inside one the save files itself?

Also on the main screen when I click on the icons like load and options, they flicker as if the cursor is scrolling through them all very quickly.

New install and same problem. There are further issues now too. When I go into the options screen for video settings, If I scroll down to the bottom of the screen where you can select options like screen space reflections, it shoots right up to the top of the list before I can do anything, making selecting these options impossible.

Very frustrated and now worry that for whatever reason my copy is ruined. I don't see how it could be an issue with my computer. I just don't understand what is going on.

Are you shutting down all non-essential programs (especially anti-virus, and any hotkey programs, etc) before starting the game?

Did you update any programs or drivers, etc, around when this started?

Have you tried switching to windowed mode or fake fullscreen, to see if that would make a difference?
If you can not do that in the options, you can edit the graphicSettings.lsx file (in the '..\Documents\Larian Studios\Divinity Original Sin' folder) in Wordpad, or other text editor, to manually change it:

Search for 'fake' near the start of the file to set the display mode (if both FakeFullscreen and Fullscreen are set to zero, it will be in Window mode).

<node id="ConfigEntry">
<attribute id="MapKey" value="FakeFullscreenEnabled" type="22" />
<attribute id="Type" value="0" type="5" />
<attribute id="Value" value="0" type="4" />
</node>
<node id="ConfigEntry">
<attribute id="MapKey" value="FrameCapFPS" type="22" />
<attribute id="Type" value="0" type="5" />
<attribute id="Value" value="60" type="4" />
</node>
<node id="ConfigEntry">
<attribute id="MapKey" value="Fullscreen" type="22" />
<attribute id="Type" value="0" type="5" />
<attribute id="Value" value="1" type="4" />
</node>