Sadly, Baldur’s Gate 3’s annoying Xbox save issues still exist, but here’s another handy fix

Unfortunately, the issue causing Baldur’s Gate 3 players to lose saves on Xbox is still present at the time of writing, but Larian offers another handy option for those keen to keep working on it without having their progress lost. Solution.

Since the cancellation of The Game Awards for Xbox BG3, these issues have unsurprisingly had some impact on fans’ ability to enjoy the game on the new platform. After all, you can’t complete this massive game in one sitting to minimize the chance of your progress being ruined.

While Xbox and Larian have confirmed that they are working on correct solutions to the firmware-based bug and have provided some steps to help players minimize the risk, the latter recently take to twitter

“Microsoft is aware of this issue and is working to resolve it, but obviously everyone is working at a lower capacity during the holidays, so it may take a while to find an appropriate solution,” the studio said, outlining the steps you need to take. expressed before. Follow to perform cross-save workaround.

These steps are as follows:

1. Create a Larian account at https://larian.com/account.

2. Go to the Options menu from the Main Menu. In-game, activate cross-save to link your Larian and Xbox accounts.

3. From now on, your last 5 saves will be automatically uploaded to the Larian server. It is important not to exit the game until the upload is complete. The upload is complete when the “Syncing Cloud Saves” message is no longer visible.

4. If a firmware error occurs, you will need to reactivate the cross-save feature in the options screen. This will give you access to your successfully uploaded game save.

“We will make this process smoother and increase the number of save games uploaded in the coming days,” Larian added. “We are doing everything we can to ensure this issue – which we know is unique – is resolved as quickly as possible and we will keep you updated on developments.”

Of course, iGamesNews is keeping an eye out for a full fix for the issue, which Larian says is a “firmware issue” causing the game to think the save completed successfully before the file has finished committing to disk, and we’ll let you know as soon as one becomes available.

While you wait, why not check out our explanation of why Baldur’s Gate 3 is one of 9 million GOTY picks for 2023 and see if our reasons for loving it align with yours.