Fallout 3: Corrupt Save in Raven Rock freezes on main screen; cannot delete cloud save?

SuperWashingTub · Nov 13, 2023

Howdy. For the record I am playing from a pristine Fallout 3 Disc#2(to run the DLC on Xbox One) and have had very little issue over the years(for a Bethesda game lol) Saving in Raven Rock in Fallout 3 seems to consistently result in corrupt saves. First time It loaded my save in Vault 87, even though the Raven Rock save was perfectly functional. Every other time, starting up the game with a Raven Rock save as the most recent save causes the entire game to freeze the moment it tries to sync to my cloud saves. Typically I can just delete these and continue from an earlier save in-game, but I can't even reach that option in this situation.

I have restarted AND rebooted the system, and reinstalled Fallout 3. There is no option to "Delete Everywhere" when I delete my Cloud Saves, so every time I delete the saves it just redownloads the corrupt save every time I boot up. This is legitimately preventing me from even accessing my game to even just start over, so I'm fairly stuck with no resolution I'm going to see if the problem persists on Xbox 360, too, as I've never seen a corrupt save file THIS damaging before lol

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Sodangidni

Hi, I’m sorry to hear that the potential solution I shared didn’t work in your particular case.

However, it’s good to know that you were able to solve the issue by using an Xbox 360, SuperWashingTub.

SuperWashingTub

IThabk you for the assistance. This solution sadly did not work for me(Fallout 3 was also the only game that was having troubles, I had previously tested), but I did bs my own solution!

I was able to load FO3 on my 360, as the corrupted files could not be downloaded to the system and therefore could not freeze the game, so I simply restarted Raven Rock and had to get through without any saves. I can confirm that each and every autosave during the quest was messed up, on each floor of the complex, and my 360 was very much struggling with the layout, lotsa screen tearing I've never dealt with lol

I made it out and got two new clean saves in the Wasteland that load properly.

Edit: I couldn't find anyone else who had such troubles with the Enclave Base so hopefully anyone else experiencing this trouble can get their game back in gear!

Sodangidni

Hello, SuperWashingTub. I’m Arturo, and I’ll be glad to provide assistance with your inquiry today.

Please try deleting the corrupted saved data by following these steps:

1. Open any other Xbox 360 game on your console
2. Press the view + menu buttons on your controller. This will open the Xbox 360 menu.
3. Go to manage storage (select Yes if you’re prompted to close the game)
4. Go to saved games and locate Fallout 3
5. Press Y on your controller once you have highlighted the game and select Yes.

Now, please open Fallout 3 and verify if you can play the game normally.

Thanks for your time,

Arturo.

ianbann82

might be a good idea to put a copy of our saved games in the cloud? this should protect your file if your main save becomes corrupted you could just delete it and load in the cloud save

michaelkoch248

Bandai Namco stating that the problem lies in a corrupted save file in either local save or in the cloud. My first step in combatting this problem was to delete my local save data and the data will not download from the cloud onto my system until I am able to load past the start screen. Since I cannot download the data to my local system I cannot delete it from the cloud from my system. Is there any way to delete the cloud save data in order to play the game again? I really enjoyed the game and would like to be able to play again.

Fallout 3: Corrupt Save in Raven Rock freezes on main screen; cannot delete cloud save?