Baldur's Gate 3's Maddening Save Game Bug Lingers On Xbox, Here's A Workaround

Microsoft Xbox Series X|S owners got a pre-holiday treat with the release of Baldur's Gate 3 on the console, but that gift quickly turned sour with a nasty bug that deleted saved games when players exited the title. Fortunately, the game's developers have suggested a temporary fix until a proper update addresses the frustrating bug.

We’re aware that there is a save issue on Xbox that continues to linger throughout the holidays. It occurs when exiting the game after saving. The game thinks the save was successful but due to a firmware issue, the save file is not fully committed to disk yet.

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— Larian Studios (@larianstudios) December 31, 2023

In a recent post on X/Twitter, Larian Studios stated that it is aware of saved games being erroneously deleted. It believes that the problem stems from a firmware version that causes the game to think the game was successfully saved even though the file was not fully written to the drive's memory. Even though Microsoft has yet to issue a fix for the irritating problem (due to the holidays, natch), the studio suggested a temporary workaround that ensures saved games stay saved. All Xbox Series X|S players have to do is follow these steps:

1. Create a Larian account at https://larian.com/account.
2. Go to the options menu from the main menu. Under gameplay, activate cross-saves, linking your Larian and Xbox accounts.
3. From now on, your last 5 saves will automatically be uploaded to the larian servers. It is important that you do not exit the game before the upload is finished. The upload is finished when the message “Syncing cloud save” is no longer visible.
4. If the firmware bug occurs, you will need to re-activate the cross-save functionality in the options screen. This will give you access to the save games that were successfully uploaded.