Just a question. I voted for "Always". I can't live without it.

Never used it. Instead I'm up to about save nr 6500. Go figure...

I'm constantly using it, good way to see all the alternatives in quests. Just recently, I did that with the Chorrol Mages Guild Recommendation. Really glad I did too.

whats quicksave is that like autosave

Similar in the way that you can only have one at a time. By hitting F5 the game makes a quicksave, which you can then load from either the load screen of by pressing quickload, F9.

I voted always, because I have this baby!

Very rarely, if ever. I think I only ever used it like 5 times max, the rest of the time I just save in one of the game slots, in case I make a *cough* mistake *cough* (such as falling into a pit of lava, and saving to another save just in case I can't get back out sort of thing).

Well, I have autosave as I'm on the Xbox 360 and I have the feature turned on. It has saved me from having to play thru hours of the game again as sometimes I get so lost in the game that I forget to save. I just use the autosave feature as kinda like a backup in-case I forget to save then die.

I voted never. But I may try quicksave now that so many people are recommending it.

i allways use quicksave and i all ways did

quicksave? OH, no I don't use it, actually I completely forgot it was there.

quicksave is like a drug to me

Voted "Always" cos I can't see how people can live without it ....... really

ya, me too.. I realised that I use it too often and about 2quicksaves at a minute XDD

I use it like it's goin' outta style

Always... wouldn't survive whitout it....

I voted never. I don't seem to find use for it.


//Daedroth

Voted never.

I just don´t trust it enough. Should a problem occur I want to know I have full saves to back me up with. Besides, I only save every four minutes or so so it´s not a big deal

I voted "never", since there isn't a quicksave feature on consoles for Oblivion. Not that I know of anyways.

This must be a PC thing, huh?

.... There is a quicksave for Skyrim's Kinect on Xbox (you literally say "quicksave" and the game does this within 3 seconds) but there isn't one for Oblivion. I quicksave quite often in Skyrim, and make more permanent saves at moments that seem epic. And if I somehow forget to do this, I have no one to blame but myself.

While we're on the subject of saving, let me ask: when do you guys & gals choose to save? Is there an exact moment? .. for some reason, I often make Oblivion saves if my character's in the middle of doing something; like opening a gate, a door, or casting a spell. This way, later on if I load my game up, I'll get to see this door opening or closing, or a spell being cast, or my character on horseback, jumping in mid-air, or something equally as cool.

I use the quicksave, but I try not to rely upon it. I prefer a regular, hard save. I make a save before I go into every dungeon, and before I quit the game.

I'm not in a hurry, so I make full saves instead of using the quick save.

I tend to play sessions that are not that long (less than half an hour) but frequent, so saving during a session is not a big deal to me. Typically 1-3 saves during a typical session, including saving upon exit of course. I do use a pretty robust system to archive saves (backed up on a data stick) that are designed to allow me to progressively work back through the last three sessions, last week, last quarter etc.

Renee, that is a neat idea of saving during an action sequence!

I actually wasn´t kidding, I usually save about every four-five minutes regardless of what I´m doing. Those saves gets deleted by and by as I make new saves. Every now and then I also make a permanent save which usually is a nice piece of scenery or something. That way when I scroll down my save list it´s like looking through my character´s personal photo album

I use it always, and I save very often. I also use hard saves but I make them before exiting the game or sometimes in between, if I had a long session. I don't have a single bad remark regarding Quicksaves, but I heard that there were some problems related to it.

I've never used a quicksave, but I may try now. Never really knew what it was and somehow thought that it was something less than a regular save.

Well it is something less than a regular save, hence the quickness I haven´t read up on it recently but a quicksave doesn´t contain all the data a regular/hard save does.
The only time there could be a problem with them as far as I understand it, is when you get crashes n stuff. Usually there isn´t a problem using quicksaves but it´s a good thing to once in awhile back it up with a hard save that is more reliable

Yes this is true; as I look at the list of saves for a particular character, it is like looking through a photo album. I usually overwrite the common saves (Kahreem opening the door to his hotel room, for instance) but keep the more important/epic saves, like Kahreem opening the door into the Countess's bedroom, just before he finally steals Ahdarji's fabled ring.