EphenSteve wrote: ↑Sun Feb 12, 2023 4:46 am
don't worry about it i reverted back to a save that has like -20 hours on it haha. just playing in 2.5x speed and skipping dialog i've already heard.
I had a weird bug where i did one of the dark arts things where you break the pots and it reset my level to 1 so i leveled back up and now i have 40 extra points which is a little annoying. im wondering if i could do Player0PerkPoints00 or 03 as i have 3 more skills to fill that i dont have unlocked on this save.
You are not understanding the digit count thing, which is likely how your save broke. There is not a fixed amount of digits in the Player0PerkPoints entry. Their are only ever as many as you have. If you have 3 talent points, then the entry will read as Player0PerkPoints3. If you have 13 points, then it will be Player0PerkPoints13. From what I can tell, if you have no points, then their won't be any numbers after Player0PerkPoints.
Keep in mind, this is not just game memory that you are editing like with other games. This is a save file that is being stored and modified on-the-fly in memory. If you alter the size of that Player0PerkPoints entry, then you are altering the size of your save file from what the game is expecting. This is why save corruption happens.
If you see more than 2 entries when you search, then you need to spend or gain points until you see, at most, 2 entries. One of them will be the one you want, the other will be a record of the most recent change in points. Change both in the exact same way, without adding or removing digits, and do not freeze them. One of them is safe to freeze, but the other is not and I don't know which is which. If you are lucky, immediately after starting your game, you may end up with only one entry, in which case you can freeze it if it isn't 1 or 10. Once you are done spending your points, you must unfreeze it or your save may be corrupted next time you see a loading screen or an auto-save.
If this sounds hard, that is because it is and you need to be familiar with this kind of stuff to know how to do it safely. Nobody should be trying this without thoroughly understanding what a digit is and what it means to not change the amount of them.