Save File Corrupted after update

[micdrop professional]

Just curious if this has happened to anyone else....

[Overtalker]

It happened to me about 14 hours into the dlc as soon as I left the dlc area to go back into the main game losing me a 210+ hour save file on NG+2, cloud backups also saved the corrupted file too so no recovery and some of the fixes I've seen online didn't help either. Started a new character and the first death I got when in Limgrave also ended in that character getting stuck in an infinite loading screen which tends to indicate save corruption....

The amount of issues I've been having with the game in the past week or two after playing it on and off since launch with no issues at all apart from losing a character to hackers putting it in a never ending death loop shortly after launch makes me feel there's either a big steam or game error causing stuff like this to happen. Just to list all the issues I've had in the past week alone:

The game CTD's on a white screen as soon as I launch it.
Tried all the fixes commonly listed and none worked.
Uninstalled the game and reinstalled on my SSD only for a 'Corrupt Update Files' to occur.
Uninstalled Steam and the game and moved both on my SSD and it worked.
As soon as I start the DLC If I tried playing online I would constantly get 'inappropriate activity detected' and forced offline.
Then finally two days late my save file gets corrupted.

I seriously doubt that any of these are issues with my system as before I moved both Steam and the game onto my SSD I factory reset the laptop, formatted both drives in it, then updated literally every driver possible only to get that file corruption and I've just attempted to download it on my HDD again only to get the same 'Corrupt Update Files' error as before.

[ChopperMan]

This just happened to me, downloaded a new patch after playing just last night in the dlc. Now I can’t play my main and only save file, have no clue what to do but it clearly has something to do with the patch

[General Pepper 4°]

If it helps, I permanently lost a 999h save, why? Something involving mods, what exactly happened? I don't know, I just know that when I played the game normally, as soon as I entered the save, my character was there, without a name, with the Vagabond class, without any items, at the beginning of the game, and this happened with all the saves I tried to enter. after that, then look on the bright side, you're not me :)
Now I have to play the whole game again because the only thing that worked was creating a new save.

[serhat.renklitas]

the "save data is corrupted" issue happened to me today. Idk how to fix that issue, but ik this happened after steam downloaded something. I launched for first time Elden Ring past 2-3 Weeks and now there is 80h game progress gone. Thanks Steam for the update!