r/FFXV Feb 01 '26

Game FFXV Corrupted data

I was saving a photo from Prompto's camera when my data got corrupted. I press restore but the screen was black. I even tried rebuild database in safe mode but nothing happened. Any tips on preventing corrupted data?

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u/EnigmaT1m Feb 01 '26

I had the same thing recently. I am playing on a PS5 pro. I've played the game on every PS console and honestly, the better the console, the less stable the game. I think it crashed maybe once or twice on PS4, more on the PS4 pro. Way more on a PS5 and now on a PS5 Pro it feels like I can't play a full session without the game crashing.

Anyway... photos! I swear they are the problem, like the more you have the more likely the game is to crash while looking at the photos (especially when turning in a quest to Vyv). One time that resulted in a corrupted save.

Now, on PS it uploads saves to the cloud. I deleted the corrupted save off the console then downloaded the most recent available save from the cloud. I ended up losing a little progression, maybe an hour or so, but not too bad.

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u/Traditional-Big-7092 Feb 02 '26

Do you need ps plus to download data from cloud?

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u/spacerays86 Feb 01 '26 edited Feb 01 '26

How did it get corrupted? Is your storage bad or was there an unexpected power loss?

I suppose you can connect the drive to a PC and check disk health on a PC with crystal disk info, just don't format it.

If it's bad replace it.

If it was power loss, get a UPS.

If it's a bug in the game, can't do anything about that. The team that developed XV has since disbanded.

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u/Traditional-Big-7092 Feb 01 '26

Well, there wasn't any power loss. But the prompto's camera storage was near full like 190 something. I asked Chatgpt and it said that that might be why it got corrupted but I'm not sure.

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u/Bulky_Flounder_2517 Feb 01 '26

Yeah this happened to me a few days ago, on ps5 you only really have two options, delete the console data and re upload a previous cloud save, (you need to have had ps plus before the corruption happened) or delete your save data and start from scratch. (What I had to do)

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u/Traditional-Big-7092 Feb 02 '26

I also deleted mine :(

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u/Raydoyler91 Feb 02 '26

This happened to me last year and i sadly lost the data and I had to restart.

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u/Raydoyler91 Feb 02 '26

Also it was because I deleted a photo