is it just me?

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hi all :D tried a search, but no joy...

a habit of mine is to do a manual save if the game allows, when i finish a session on a PS3 game

even after i've seen all the auto-save malarky going on, i still feel i'm safer if i do a manual save

totally illogical i know :dunce::lol:

do you do it too?

come on all, confess! :D
 
RacerPaul
hi all :D tried a search, but no joy...

a habit of mine is to do a manual save if the game allows, when i finish a session on a PS3 game

even after i've seen all the auto-save malarky going on, i still feel i'm safer if i do a manual save

totally illogical i know :dunce::lol:

do you do it too?

come on all, confess! :D
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I confess!!!!!!!!!!!!! The whole "data corrupting" thing in GT4 made me extra-cautious with my saves. Even when saving into an internal HDD. I just don't want to see that "corrupted data" window again.
 
Yeah - I do this too...

Although in Fallout3 - I've run out of saves... I can't save any more?!

But the save screen is a PS3 standard thing isn't it...

Does that mean that the PS3 has a limit of save files per game?

C.
 
I don't really. Like in GTA4, I just keep playing without entering the safehouses.

You should add a poll.
 
ericdemoryGT
I don't really. Like in GTA4, I just keep playing without entering the safehouses.

You should add a poll.
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Or you could just turn it off in the options menu. :rolleyes:

I don't trust auto save. Never have, never will. I hate (most) games that have an auto save feature and won't allow you to turn it off. I was a little bit disappointed when I found out that GT4 wouldn't let you to turn off auto save completely.
 
yeti
Yeah - I do this too...

Although in Fallout3 - I've run out of saves... I can't save any more?!

But the save screen is a PS3 standard thing isn't it...

Does that mean that the PS3 has a limit of save files per game?

C.
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I had played, finished up, and earned a Platinum Trophy on Fallout 3 a long time ago. I got a hold of the GOTY version with all of the DLC, and when I started playing through this, I only had one original Fallout 3 game save file on my PS3.

I was very cautious going through all of the new areas, and I did not want to reach a point of no return, so I kept creating a lot of new saves. Eventually, I only had the option to overwrite an existing save. I counted up the save files on the system, and I had 128....so I suppose that 128 is the limit for some (unknown to me) reason.

The Fallout 3 game save files are ridiculously large, but that can't be the reason why they are capped at 128 since I have over 100GB of free space on my hard drive. When I started playing through the additional content, the size of my primary file was 10MB, which is incredibly large (IMHO). When I finished up the GOTY edition, my primary file size was 17MB, which is incredibly HUGE.

Bethesda Softworks really needs to improve the coding for their games, because I believe that these huge game save files are the reason that their games tend to lag and freeze up so much. I enjoyed the additional DLC, but I am very glad that I did not pay for it. On many occasions, this game did not just slow down to a few frames per second, it slowed down to many seconds per frame....an utterly boring slide show. I am so glad that I am finally done with it, and I doubt that I'll ever play it again.
 
Glad to hear it's not just me that ran out of save then!!!

128 is a very low number - I have a feeling this is a PS3 limit though - cos all the save functions etc use standard screens...

Might test this on another game that allows individual saves.

C.
 
yeti
128 is a very low number - I have a feeling this is a PS3 limit though - cos all the save functions etc use standard screens...

Might test this on another game that allows individual saves.

C.
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It's a game limitation. Both Oblivion and Fallout 3 have it... for instance, their XBox counterparts allow for 512 saves if I'm not mistaken.
 
And I've never had a problem with saves with either Oblivion or Fallout on the PC.

I let auto save do it's job although I will occasionally save manually if the game is something that's important to me. Like with Mass Effect I save during the mission all the time incase I die or something.
 
Coxis
It's a game limitation. Both Oblivion and Fallout 3 have it... for instance, their XBox counterparts allow for 512 saves if I'm not mistaken.
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Have you managed to save more than 128 saves on any other game on the PS3?

We have 2 games that have the limit... points more to a System limitation and not a game limitation.

C.
 
yeti
Have you managed to save more than 128 saves on any other game on the PS3?

We have 2 games that have the limit... points more to a System limitation and not a game limitation.

C.
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Those two games are from Bethesda Softworks, though. They are developer-set limits. If you own a game with this saving system you can go try and you'll see that there won't be a limit (or at least it will be higher than 128 proving that it isn't a system limitation) to how many different save files you can have. Bioshock and MGS4 come to mind to test this out.

EDIT: I have found this link. I couldn't find anything official but the discussion here appears to indicate that the Bioshock game could get bugged once you get to 400+ save files.

http://forums.2kgames.com/forums/showthread.php?p=561008
 
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Further info - I sorted my Save Games for Fallout - it turns out I have 130...

I assume 1 is for Game Data... 1 is an Auto save...

And the rest are my 128 "personal" saves...

Adding the info above - that does sound like a Game(/developer) limit not a System limit (I wasn't aware that Oblivion was Bethesda as well)

However - that being said - seems a bit dodgy that 400+ save files can bug the file system... but could that just be Bioshock?

C.
 
yeti
Further info - I sorted my Save Games for Fallout - it turns out I have 130...

I assume 1 is for Game Data... 1 is an Auto save...

And the rest are my 128 "personal" saves...

Adding the info above - that does sound like a Game(/developer) limit not a System limit (I wasn't aware that Oblivion was Bethesda as well)

However - that being said - seems a bit dodgy that 400+ save files can bug the file system... but could that just be Bioshock?

C.
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That's a good question. I do have MGS4 and it has that same saving system where you can have multiple save files if you want to, but I must have like 30 at the most, so I'm too lazy to go create a bunch of files to find out. :p

I'm somewhat sure that it must be Bioshock only. It wouldn't make sense if all games got bugged for having a lot of game saves.
 
Coxis
That's a good question. I do have MGS4 and it has that same saving system where you can have multiple save files if you want to, but I must have like 30 at the most, so I'm too lazy to go create a bunch of files to find out. :p

I'm somewhat sure that it must be Bioshock only. It wouldn't make sense if all games got bugged for having a lot of game saves.
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I would severly hope so!!!

(And not something I really plan on finding out too!!!!)

C.
 
I also save often, sometimes I save pretty much subconsciously then think "Did I actually save it?" Then save again. :D
 
I confess, I'm a save addict. When I finishing playing GT5 Prologue it automatically saves. Then I scroll right to the save button and save once more.

I remember when I was playing GT4, after I managed to win a race that I've failed to do many times before, I would manually save 2 or 3 times. Just to be sure
 
The thing with GT5P is that it doesn't always autosave when going online. Only if you actually race will it save. If you do an online free run to test and tune a car it will not save the settings unless you actually go online and race it. So you MUST save manually or you'll lose the settings.
 
The saving in GT5P was retarded... I don't want to have to wait for a progress bar - do it in the background like all other games please.

C.
 
I have reached 2nd or 3rd lvl of Egypt in Tomb Rider 1 without saving - I had no memory card back in these days ..., only had money for PSX and the game, (bdw game was in German and I don't speak German at all..;) ) I think I could do some speedrun movie for first levels back then ;)

Nowadays I save manually and always make new save, up to a point when loading some old file would mean playing again the same "story" for many hours (+-40 saves) at least that was the case for MGS4,Fallout3 and now Oblivion GOTY (always before lock picking,trespassing etc) . I don't care about saving in GT5P because I have 200M credits and all the cars I want to have so I just turn the game off right after online race end menu.
(anyone up for some race on Suzuka ? I'm racing in a silver GTR)
 
I do this too. I am also quite OCD about my save slots and will usually go through all of them once every few weeks and delete or overwrite old saves. I usually don't have any more than 10 save's per game and even that is pushing it.
 

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