save incompatible

[daanm]

Hi everyone,

I wanted to join my game this morning but then I got an error message. then i went to find out what it was and it said change the "quicksave.sfs" to "persistent.sfs".
I did and now it says Save Incompatible.
can someone help me with this because I don't want to start all over again.

kind regards,

DaanM

[jimmymcgoochie]

Sounds like a corrupted save to me. Inside saves/(your save name)/backups there should be some backup copies of the persistent.sfs file which you can copy out of that folder, paste in the one above and rename to persistent.sfs to load your save that way; you might lose a little bit of progress, but that’s better than starting completely from scratch,

Did you do a game update recently? Save incompatible is usually due to opening a save file that was made in a newer version of KSP than what you’re using so e.g. if you updated to 1.11.2 you can open a save file made in 1.11.1, but if you go back to 1.11.1 you can’t then open that same save file as it’s been updated to 1.11.2 as well; you can just edit the version inside the save file but this is risky, especially going back to a previous major version (e.g. 1.10) as parts/systems will be different or missing and the save can easily get broken that way.

[daanm]

I did what you told me but now I'm back on the part of: Erro Accesing this save.
and then I looked up what it could be. Then I came to that I had to change the persitant file.

[daanm]

On 3/22/2021 at 12:01 PM, jimmymcgoochie said:

Sounds like a corrupted save to me. Inside saves/(your save name)/backups there should be some backup copies of the persistent.sfs file which you can copy out of that folder, paste in the one above and rename to persistent.sfs to load your save that way; you might lose a little bit of progress, but that’s better than starting completely from scratch,

Did you do a game update recently? Save incompatible is usually due to opening a save file that was made in a newer version of KSP than what you’re using so e.g. if you updated to 1.11.2 you can open a save file made in 1.11.1, but if you go back to 1.11.1 you can’t then open that same save file as it’s been updated to 1.11.2 as well; you can just edit the version inside the save file but this is risky, especially going back to a previous major version (e.g. 1.10) as parts/systems will be different or missing and the save can easily get broken that way.

i dont know. i have KSP instald on steam. Do you know where i can see which version i am at and where i can change it?

[jimmymcgoochie]

1 hour ago, daanm said:

i dont know. i have KSP instald on steam. Do you know where i can see which version i am at and where i can change it?

If you’re on steam then you’re probably on v1.11.2; you can see the version in the KSP main menu or by hitting escape then “show version information” on the pause menu. You can change the version by right clicking KSP in your steam library > Properties > Betas tab in the pop up window > select the version you want and it should download automatically. Going forwards a version with a save is totally fine but going backwards will not work.

I still recommend checking for a backup save first rather than changing version which can easily cause you more problems.

[daanm]

thanks for your help, its working now.

i am very happy i dont know how much i need to thank you.