Error Code 30, happening at cubes

[SpookyJamez]

Every time I visit a cube, I receive the following error:

Cannot write to Character data 0 save file. Error code: 30 Please send the above code to user support.

Did a search, but didn't see any posts about it. Can it be fixed? Thanks.

[SpookyJamez]

Seems the error happens at the end of quests, as well. Forgive the bump with new info. Still need help, if anyone is familiar with the issue.

[Kolbex]

There's no help and won't be any help, probably. It's not just at cubes, I get this error (on Xbox) mostly during fights, as well as error code 20. Once either one of them shows up, the game crashes out in short order. I played the game near release for about seven hours with zero crashes, and now it's happened a couple dozen times in the first couple hours of a new playthrough, so it's obviously some bug they introduced in a patch, but there's close to zero info out there on it, and clearing your cache (again on Xbox), reinstalling etc. doesn't fix it. Game is not exactly unplayable...but close. You always end up losing a decent chunk of mission progress when it happens.

[Kolbex]

I recalled seeing something somewhere about maybe demo save data interfering with the save process. Well, I never had the demo, but I did have an old save, probably several patch versions ago. What the hell, I thought, I'll delete my saves. So, I did and started over. I also chose not to install the DLC, just to see. I just did the whole first chaos shrine mission and no errors, no crashes. I'll keep you updated, and if it keeps being stable I'll reinstall the DLC and see if that changes anything.

[Kolbex]

Never mind, still happening. This last crash I didn't even get the error, just happened as soon as I took a screenshot. The game just gets stuck saving sometimes and can't finish the operation for whatever reason. I was taking a screenshot of it doing this at the cubes, just saving and saving, with the Save option in the cube menu greyed out, when it crashed. I recommend contacting Square-Enix. They won't do ♥♥♥♥ for you individually, I'm sure, but maybe if everyone who gets the error yells at them they'll fix it, although I will not at all be holding my breath.

[Lu2]

game does crash randomly sometimes for me too . but its mostly when some demanding stuff is on screen and pc doesnt work 100% correctly [wake up from sleep mode, windows doing ♥♥♥♥ in background,etc] i do have old hdd which doesnt do any favor for this game too

but my crashes are not realy tied to cubes , they are random

[Lu2]

Originally posted by Kolbex:

Never mind, still happening. This last crash I didn't even get the error, just happened as soon as I took a screenshot. The game just gets stuck saving sometimes and can't finish the operation for whatever reason. I was taking a screenshot of it doing this at the cubes, just saving and saving, with the Save option in the cube menu greyed out, when it crashed. I recommend contacting Square-Enix. They won't do ♥♥♥♥ for you individually, I'm sure, but maybe if everyone who gets the error yells at them they'll fix it, although I will not at all be holding my breath.

yeah happended to me too like 3 times in 200 hours . stucked at loading screen
i noticed when stage take way too long to load it mostly crashed after imidietly after at one point

i dont think square will fix issues. steam overlay is comletly broken for me in windows 10 in this game

[Kolbex]

I got an errorless crash yesterday that was clearly related to this whole saving thing (edit: looking over my previous post I see o already talked about this). The save icon pops up and just never goes away (usually it only takes a second or two), and this makes the Save option in the cubes greyed out; when I took a screenshot of this the game crashed. Nothing particularly demanding going on.

As to the stated error code, it is apparently an issue in both Nioh and Nioh 2 as well, same exact code(s), 20 and 30, and messages. So it's a Team Ninja thing that has been around for at least six years and will never be fixed. Now, the Nioh players (on PC) seem to have figured out at least one cause that may apply here: turn off OneDrive or Google file synching if you have it on. It interferes with the constant saving that the Team Ninja games do (in emulation of FromSoft games, which to my knowledge have never had a problem like this).

The auto saving does seem to be triggered by certain events such as even just approaching cubes, not necessarily interacting with them. Look at the bottom left corner of your screen to see the saving icon appear when you do this. Being on Xbox I don't have any OneDrive (they removed the app from the store for Xbox entirely, apparently for lack of interest) much less Google synching going on, but in desperation I disconnected my Xbox from the internet and played for a bit. I thought it was going to happen again because as I approached a set of cubes near the beginning of the first side mission the save icon popped up and didn't go away, and when I interacted with the cubes the Save option was darkened and unavailable, all telltale signs of an imminent crash, but when I saved a video of the whole thing (similar process to taking a screenshot that caused a crash the day before), the save icon went away and I was then able to save manually and continue playing normally! Definitely needs more testing but is an encouraging sign, although I don't like playing disconnected from the internet.