saved game files gone

[Demonshadow_Raid]

i logged back on and notice my saves were just gone so i though oh well it fine i guess must have been corrupted data started a new game and that too is gone is this a new bug?

[darkblade]

did you try to verify your game files?

[Demonshadow_Raid]

Yup

[Demonshadow_Raid]

Even uninstalled and reinstalled

[Demonshadow_Raid]

Twice

[Waste_of_skin]

I think others have posted about a similar problem, but I don't know if they found any fix. I haven't had any problem saving.

I'm wondering if the save files are actually being created. If you save a couple of times and then go to the load screen, do the saves show up?

[Demonshadow_Raid]

no i have done so after reinstalling on the 2nd try no dice

[Waste_of_skin]

Oh, just to be clear, I meant to check the load screen while you were still in the game. So, you do a save, then maybe fast travel somewhere or kill an enemy or something (so there is something different in your save state) and save again, and then immediately go to the load screen and see if any save files are listed.

The reason that I say to save twice, and do something in between those saves, is the idea that maybe the game actually keeps the save data in memory when you first save, so it doesn't need a file to (re)load that. Doing two saves, with different data, would hopefully eliminate that possibility. The assumption here is that if the game was keeping save data in memory, it would only be the last save and not multiple saves.

If there are no saves listed, then it would seem that the game is being prevented from saving. Your security software may be blocking it. For example, Windows Defender has a "ransomware protection" option that can restrict access to certain folders, and that has apparently prevented other games from saving in the past.

If the saves are listed before you exit the game, then something is apparently deleting them. It's probably the game, but it could, theoretically, be something else, like if your anti-virus thought that the files were infected and quarantined them (that seems unlikely, but who knows).

[♥♥♥♥ Blockula]

What I have found is that rather than the game not creating saves/the saves being deleted, it's that the game can't access them.

For me the saves are being created in the AppData folder in my User folder of my C: drive. I can see saves being created, and the dates are all recent. But when I go load a game, the option is greyed out because it simply can't access them.

(Try looking in Users/[user name]/AppData/Local for the Carnal Instinct folder)

[Waste_of_skin]

Originally posted by ♥♥♥♥ Blockula:

What I have found is that rather than the game not creating saves/the saves being deleted, it's that the game can't access them.

Good point. I hadn't thought of that possibility. I mean, it seems odd that the game would be able to create a save file, but then not be able to read it, but anything's possible at this point. (I assume that you're looking in the Carnal_Instinct_UE5 folder, and not Carnal_Instinct (that's the UE4 version))

Under Windows 10, the save files should be in:

%localappdata%\Carnal_Instinct_UE5\Saved\SaveGames

Win 11 might be different.

[waschbaer]

I have the same problem. The saves are there but i can only load the ones from the active session. I usually start a new game, create a save and then change in the folder the name of the save that i want to use, to the name of the new safe (usually Quicksave_Slot1). After this i can load it in the game. It's the only way i found without needing to start the game over and over. (I mean the UE5 version btw)
I now my english sucks, i'm not an native english speaker ;)

[Demonshadow_Raid]

Ok I looked back to see if this issue has popped up before and found this
With the UE4 build there are issues which crop up due to having save data from older builds in your save folder, this sounds exactly like one of those..

In order to resolve it you need to head to your save folder (found at 'C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Carnal_Instinct\Saved\SaveGames') and then delete everything found here.

Any save data you did have would be lost, but upon starting a new playthrough everything should be working as intended again (including the save system itself).

[Waste_of_skin]

Originally posted by Demonshadow_Raid:

In order to resolve it you need to head to your save folder (found at 'C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Local\Carnal_Instinct\Saved\SaveGames') and then delete everything found here.

That's for the UE4 version. The UE5 saves are in a different folder (the one I posted earlier). It's Carnal_Instinct_UE5, instead of Carnal_Instinct .

Maybe that will help people. If the game isn't saving anyway, then I guess they don't have much to lose by trying it. But I thought part of the reason for CI Team switching from UE4 to UE5 was that UE5 wouldn't have that problem with data from old saves.

[Demonshadow_Raid]

Well it worked so problem solved I believe the save system and save files got corrupted which cause the problem this Solution fixed the problem

[Waste_of_skin]

It sucks that you had to go all through that, but I'm glad that you got it fixed.