Autosave failed

[Alohe]

I installed GTA 4 and I finished the first mission and the autosave failed. I don't know what to do to fix this. help.

[Alohe]

also when I try to save on the bed it says that "Save failed. Check your storage device and try again."

[ksh311x]

same thing. It seems that after windows games live turend into xbox rockstar have a lot of problems to figure out how should now those two connect. Maybe it's better to reinstall game and turn of cloud savings

[Yujah]

Just a tip: to turn of the Rockstar cloud (which for me doesn't work right anyway; the game at close doesn't sync but simply complains that there's a conflict if you in fact saved) you don't need to fully reinstall; closing down the game and deleting/renaming your user's Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA IV\Profiles\<some id>\cloudsavedata.dat should have the RGL re-ask on restarting the game.

But let me by the way add to that that I feel it unlikely to solve things: as far as I'm aware the game itself saves to disc, with the Rockstar cloud-sync happening only (if it worked right) on close by the RGL. This would be to imply that for some reason the game has no write-access to the above directory. Generic Windows rights-issue, or perhaps you somehow having managed to start the game without logging in to Social Club at all, i.e., "<some id>" in that path being wrong/unknown to the game.

[ksh311x]

Well, it's worth to try, but I still think it need to be vanished from system at all

[Yujah]

Upon rereading another, fairly banal reason comes to mind by the way: full disk? (probably not you, but maybe threadstarter)

[Aries the Grim Fool]

Yujah eredeti hozzászólása:

Upon rereading another, fairly banal reason comes to mind by the way: full disk? (probably not you, but maybe threadstarter)

To add some fuel to the mystery, seen someone else have a similar issue on another game and it was due to his documents being on a NAS, which the game wouldn't accept as a valid place.

TBH had something similar to the OP's reports (after installing fixes, as OOTB The Complete Edition version would simply crash upon saving), where the game reported saving errors, but the save worked just fine. Dunno how thoroughly the removal of GFWL was done, but perhaps there are bits and bobs that could potentially give false positives/negatives?

[Yujah]

While we wait for thread starter to confirm/deny stuff, this then seems as good a time as any to compliment Rockstar on their initial/previous policy of concentrating on console rather than PC. "A PC" is just way too many things in way too many states to support. Personally definitely not having any sort of savegame issue OOTB on Windows 7 for example (locally that is; the RGL sync issue I mentioned) and I for the life of me can't fathom any such issue to then be GTA4-specific rather than a general sign of one of 16 million ways in which to eff up a Windows PC.

[ksh311x]

Yujah eredeti hozzászólása:

While we wait for thread starter to confirm/deny stuff, this then seems as good a time as any to compliment Rockstar on their initial/previous policy of concentrating on console rather than PC. "A PC" is just way too many things in way too many states to support. Personally definitely not having any sort of savegame issue OOTB on Windows 7 for example (locally that is; the RGL sync issue I mentioned) and I for the life of me can't fathom any such issue to then be GTA4-specific rather than a general sign of one of 16 million ways in which to eff up a Windows PC.

actually it's pretty common problem. And it's frustrating a lot seeing how many gamers in the internet have the some problem, but still no reasonable explanation or problem solving. I totally have a lot of free space on disk, but still cannot autosave or just save (on bed)

[dontNo]

Sock cat eredeti hozzászólása:

I installed GTA 4 and I finished the first mission and the autosave failed. I don't know what to do to fix this. help.

I am in the trouble as you.

[Yujah]

None of you have commented on whether or not disabling the Rockstar cloud has done anything. If you tried and it didn't, try and create a file in your Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA IV\Profiles\<some id>\ directory manually. If that directory does not exist or also fails, yet the login to the RGL / Social Club upon starting the game does work, fixing that rights issue would also likely fix GTA4's access.

I.e.. "Needs information".

[ksh311x]

Yujah eredeti hozzászólása:

None of you have commented on whether or not disabling the Rockstar cloud has done anything. If you tried and it didn't, try and create a file in your Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA IV\Profiles\<some id>\ directory manually. If that directory does not exist or also fails, yet the login to the RGL / Social Club upon starting the game does work, fixing that rights issue would also likely fix GTA4's access.

I.e.. "Needs information".

Sorry for that! No, disabling Rockstar cloud did totally nothing. That was my hope and it didn't work. Also I vanished Rockstar and GTA IV and Rockstar client from computer, cleared all the traces, reinstalled both and deactivate cloud save. Still same problem.

But game always asking me about savings from Windows Game Live which I never had and which is don't exist anymore

Btw same problem suddenly appeared in Mount&Blade - save error in it too. That's funny, cause a lot of other games are working just fine.

[Yujah]

ksh311x eredeti hozzászólása:

But game always asking me about savings from Windows Game Live

Actually always, i.e., on each start? Not just once after the reinstall? If so: upon not finding existing saves (or specifically configuration I believe; the mentioned cloudsave.dat file) in the mentioned directory it asks you whether or not it should be scanning the disk for old local savegames that you may have lying around your disc from the old GFWL-version of the game indeed. It should however only do this once; if it keeps on asking this would be consistent with the game being unable at all to write to the mentioned directory.

That's why I wanted you to try and see if the directory in fact exists and if so, if you are as your own regular user allowed to create a file in it. Mount & Blade now also acting up is very likely to be a symptom of the same issue. GTA4 as said stores under C:\Users\Your Name\Documents; M&B might also, with your other games that do work fine storing somewhere under C:\Users\Your Name\AppData (a hidden directory). I.e., please check simply through the explorer if anything's up with your Documents directory or specifically Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA IV\Profiles\<some id>\ directory.

If you can write to Documents itself and if Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA IV\Profiles\<some id>\ exists than perhaps blowing all of Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA IV away and letting the game recreate it is all you need. If you don't have gamedata from other Rockstar games in Documents\Rockstar Games, perhaps blowing all of Documents\Rockstar Games away, but careful there to not loose savegames from e.g. GTA5 or L.A. Noire, or...

If the above doesn't yet help...

There are 3 people here with the seemingly same/similar issue, and while I'm not a Windows user as such and thereby not well-positioned for debugging Windows issues... do you perhaps use an account without admin privileges for your gaming? If so, don't get me wrong, well done, but it might in that case supposedly be an RGL bug after all, with the RGL after being installed by an administrator account now in fact trying to save under THAT account. Ubisoft's launcher is comparably retarded in that sense.

But never mind that last bit for now; first just check your Documents and the mentioned directories under it so see if you can in fact create a file there and/or blow existing copies of Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA IV or all of Documents\Rockstar Games away to see if its then recreated correctly if it was not now.

[ksh311x]

Yujah eredeti hozzászólása:

ksh311x eredeti hozzászólása:

But game always asking me about savings from Windows Game Live

do you perhaps use an account without admin privileges for your gaming?

Ayup, I am running computer as an administrator. After you asked I ran the steam and the rockstar client forcing adming rights - didn't help.

Then I tried your other advice - didn't help either.

Maybe I should download old version of Windos Live Games??

[Yujah]

I wouldn't do that no. GFWL is at the moment and for existing copies of games that use it still up and running, but GTA4 was until March this year one of the last or perhaps even actual last still sold game(s) that used it. Microsoft has been in the process of retiring GFWL for years now and I expect that GTA4 having left will cause it to definitively crumble "any day" now. At that point you may or may not still be able to use the local GFWL software with an offline profile --- for some yet again unspecified amount of time (on Windows 10 that is; my own Windows 7 system is expected to keep on chugging along quite the same as it does today, which is the point of it being on Windows 7...)

Frankly, these save issues would mean one thing, and that's something being quite wrong with your system. If I'd not be interested in getting to the bottom of that, I'd be reinstalling.

[Alohe]

I have reinstalled the game 2 times and the problem didn’t resolve.