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Shadowheart in Baldur's Gate 3 stands with her arms out in front of her.
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Baldur’s Gate 3 fixes ‘incompatible version’ save game error with hotfix 4 re-release

You can finally get back into the game.

If you played Baldur’s Gate 3 yesterday evening, you likely noticed something weird and frustrating going on with your saved games. Many players experienced issues with save games being an “incompatible version” of BG3 after Larian Studios reverted its most recent hotfix because of bugs.

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Last night, the developer repeatedly told fans on social media to be patient. Hotfix four was on its way, and sure enough, it was. Larian announced today it is redeploying the hotfix and fixing the way that hotfixes get added moving forward to prevent the issue from happening again.

“Yesterday we had to rollback hotfix four because of a rare compiler issue,” the team said. “To avoid this from happening again we’re changing the way we deploy patches. Players who had downloaded hotfix four were unable to continue from their hotfix four saves once we had rolled back the patch. While this is not ok, rolling back the patch in order to diagnose the problem and limit those exposed to it was the lesser of two evils.”

Related: Broken Baldur’s Gate 3 saves: What is the ‘incompatible version’ error in BG3?

Larian confirmed in its post that players should be able to load their save games that were previously listed as being an “incompatible version.” Dot Esports has also confirmed through the game’s client that you can load back into those “incompatible version” save games. They should no longer be listed as “incompatible.”

This is the fourth hotfix that Larian has published for BG3 since the game’s release on Aug. 3. The first hotfix came just one day after the game’s release. Yesterday’s hotfix initially went live in the afternoon, but it was reverted three hours later just before 6pm CT.


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What initial steps should players take to fix the 'can't save' bug in Baldur's Gate 3?

Players should exit Baldur's Gate 3, close the Larian Studios Launcher, right-click on Baldur's Gate 3 in their Steam library, select 'Properties,' go to the 'General' tab, and switch off the slider for 'Keep game saves in the Steam Cloud for Baldur’s Gate 3.' Then, they should delete the 'Baldur's Gate 3' folder in the AppData > Local > Larian Studios directory.

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Larian Studios added endings for Karlach, allowed the removal of custom characters from multiplayer campaigns, and enabled players to change their appearance during a playthrough based on player feedback.

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Larian Studios announced a second patch for Baldur's Gate 3 that includes major performance improvements, tweaks/changes to the game, and the beginning of implementing feedback from players about the Origin Characters' epilogues.

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Max Miceli
Senior Staff Writer. Max graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a journalism and political science degree in 2015. He previously worked for The Esports Observer covering the streaming industry before joining Dot where he now helps with Overwatch 2 coverage.