Save file corrupted.

[Mister Nailbrain]

Piece of crap game corrupted my main save file, so i lost hours of gametime. Yes it was the dreaded "exception_access_violation" error. I can create a new character just fine, but cant load into my main.
it's really ironic because i spent a solid two hours farming for an armor piece just yesterday.

[Babb]

3 months after release, 1 million players having the same issue and you still didn't backup your save?

[solaris32]

If you search around there's a way to access your Steam cloud, copy the file from there and put it in your game folder. Hopefully the cloud file isn't corrupt too. And so until they fix the issue manually backup your save.

[Mister Nailbrain]

Originally posted by Babb:

3 months after release, 1 million players having the same issue and you still didn't backup your save?

Unfortunately, I had no idea this was an issue. I was under the misconception that a full price, full release game surely had no such problems.

[ArtoriasOFtheAbyss]

my advice, do a backup your savegame folder into another folder

that is i do since launch day, and not only on this game, also on elden ring, to avoid issues or save corruption, or simply i want backup my save on a games that i spent over 300+ hours

after i end daily session on this game= inmediately backup my saves

i recommend you do the same, simply copy and paste into another folder , it took me five seconds to do that, much better spent five seconds a day doing that than lost a savegame with over 300 hours

[Mister Nailbrain]

Originally posted by ArtoriasOFtheAbyss:

my advice, do a backup your savegame folder into another folder

that is i do since launch day, and not only on this game, also on elden ring, to avoid issues or save corruption, or simply i want backup my save on a games that i spent over 300+ hours

after i end daily session on this game= inmediately backup my saves

i recommend you do the same, simply copy and paste into another folder , it took me five seconds to do that, much better spent five seconds a day doing that than lost a savegame with over 300 hours

I will keep that in mind for the future. I'll make sure to do so, whenever I find myself wanting to play this game again.

[Babb]

Judging by the way you put it, I believe that the problem will get fixed when you'll want to play again

[Retcon Rob]

Originally posted by Babb:

3 months after release, 1 million players having the same issue and you still didn't backup your save?

When people buy the game, they're too busy playing it and having fun to spend time on the forums. It's only when their save corrupts that they come here looking for answers. I know this, because it's exactly what happened to me. Steam needs to put warning labels on store pages when issues like this become known.

[Babb]

They already do:

Overall Reviews: Mixed (18,848 reviews)

Comparing this with Elden Ring:

Overall Reviews: Very Positive (564,511 reviews)

That is the most obvious red flag, yet, it didn't stop me from spending $60.

[VileyeAm]

i just lost my second character to this "bug" and at this point i will not pick the game back up again. two 100+ characters gone. over 100 hours gone. people say backup. they should backup the price and not release a game that doesnt actually save your progress. never had this issue with any of the soulsborne games. havent played 3 in over a year and im sure i can load my character up just fine. staggered autosaves would at least give us a chance to backroll our progress if the most recent autosave gets corrupted. FFS

[HomeWrecker]

You know, what is funny, is that the player always states Back up your save files. The bad part, how you going to know when it is corrupted, until it has happen. You don't know, and when it happens. It's already corrupted to that point. So, yeah, you MIGHT be right. But, it's not the Gamer fault, that the file gotten corrupted in the first place. They payed for a price, and when that product is not up to the standards, how it is the player fault? So, while your game is running fine and dandy, and no problems. It is so easy to blame the player for buying something, that they had no control over or developed. Amazing how I see so many post, blaming the player that is having the issue and wanting answer and frustrating for the time they put in it, and over many hours that your not experiencing, or taken a lost. (I already know what some player will say. I have, and blah blah blah.)

[FightMilk]

Originally posted by Babb:

3 months after release, 1 million players having the same issue and you still didn't backup your save?

Point is you should not need to. Especially in 2023

[Babb]

Originally posted by Gun1Up:

Point is you should not need to. Especially in 2023

That's a fact and it is sad it is happening. But then, there are a lots of reasons a corrupted save could happen, ranging from hardware faults, or unstable OCs, to bad code.

The 1st thing that I would do is to check if my PC is stable. I'd run a torture test with prime95 to check if CPU is behaving well and if it does not error out when stressed. Then I'd go for the RAM, see if they don't fault when reading / writing data.

I'm saying this because I do have a pretty stable OC myself and only had a single corruption issue at the beginning of the game, but since stabilizing the OC, not a single issue anymore, except for random game crashes due to well known problem with AMD hardware.

If all those check out, then it is clearly a coding only solvable by the dev team.

[Sobs Echo® Prestige Sounds]

People can't build proper rigs, thus leads to random crashes.

[Retcon Rob]

Originally posted by Sobs Echo® Prestige Sounds:

People can't build proper rigs, thus leads to random crashes.

It's the unreal engine. People experience the same crash with the same error code across multiple games built in unreal.

[HomeWrecker]

Originally posted by JohnnyNoArms:

Originally posted by Sobs Echo® Prestige Sounds:

People can't build proper rigs, thus leads to random crashes.

It's the unreal engine. People experience the same crash with the same error code across multiple games built in unreal.

This is my point exactly.