

You might be safe if you only casually dabble in crafting, but the system's skill tree sure encourages grinding it - and we shouldn't have to fear messing up our files by using an in-game feature.

Several players on the CDPR forums have reported their save files grew permanently larger even after selling crafted items. While save file size should grow naturally as you do more in the game, it seems crafting in particular can push them to dangerous sizes. While CDPR don't give hard numbers, some players report that saves become slow to load at 6MB, then past 8MB they become corrupted and won't even load. "The save file size limit might be increased in one of the future patches, but the corrupted files will remain that way," a support page says. CD Projekt Red are advising players to "use an older save file to continue playing and try to keep a lower amount of items and crafting materials" to avoid the problem, because once your files are corrupted, there's no getting them back. It seems crafting in particular can help save files grow to dangerous sizes.

Watch out all you crafters and hoarders: a Cyberpunk 2077 bug is causing players' saves to become corrupted if the files become too large.
