[Zenless Zone Zero] Save file corrupted — anything recoverable?

Not a complaint, just genuinely puzzled by the behaviour. The numbers look fine on paper, but it feels noticeably worse in practice.

The thing that keeps tripping me up is that everyone assumes you already know the basics, and the wiki is out of date. Still open to better approaches if anyone has one.

Agreed on most of this, except temperature is the usual culprit when performance degrades over a session.

Depends on your setup, but broadly do not copy someone else’s config wholesale — start from defaults and adjust to your own setup.

Report back once you have tried it.

This is the bit people miss — the difference is real but small enough that you may not notice it while playing.

Worth a shot before anything drastic.

Agreed on most of this, except do not copy someone else’s config wholesale — start from defaults and adjust to your own setup.

That fixed it for me, at least.

From experience, you get most of the benefit from the first adjustment; everything after that is marginal.

Counterpoint: you get most of the benefit from the first adjustment; everything after that is marginal.

Short version: do not copy someone else’s config wholesale — start from defaults and adjust to your own setup.

Not the answer you want, but do the cheap diagnostic first — it costs nothing and rules out half the causes.

Had the exact same issue. give it a clean reinstall before assuming the hardware is at fault.

Depends on your setup, but broadly ignore the loudest advice; the boring answer is usually the correct one here.

Let us know which part worked.

The usual fix here is it is almost always a setting rather than hardware, so try the free fixes before spending anything.

This is the bit people miss — this changed for me after the last patch, so older threads may steer you wrong.

Speaking as someone who got it wrong initially, that behaviour is intentional, even though it is poorly explained in-game.

Same boat here. ignore the loudest advice; the boring answer is usually the correct one here.

Good luck, it is a common snag.

Counterpoint: verify the files before anything else; it catches more problems than people expect.

Short version: temperature is the usual culprit when performance degrades over a session.

Quick correction to the above: check whether an overlay is running before blaming the game itself.

Speaking as someone who got it wrong initially, the defaults are conservative on purpose, so there is usually headroom to gain.