Saves not showing up in game?

[3LimbJim]

My saves are not showing up in game. They are in the correct location and folder. So I'm not sure what is happening.

[Nortline]

same thing

[PenguinsRPeople2]

I'm also having this issue. I saved a game to run an errand and came back in an hour. Same build of the game and no changes in mods and my manual and auto saves were all gone

[Su kAm Ahdi]

Its strange! I couldnt find my save! I quit game entirely! reload an autosaved game, then quit to desktop then found one of my saved games but not the other ones! Save feauture is definately bugged!

[Szepy The One-Handed]

first of all saves from default-public version are not compatible with beta branch(test_edition), second thing is that saves are not listed if your mods changed, that can be changed by pressing ctrl+shift+s and changing the front_end.enable_strict_saved_game_filtering to false then restarting your game, you should see your saves then if they are from the same game version, but you might get an errors while loading them(depending on what the mods changes)

[Bnice2Fury]

70hrs of Gameplay gone! Saved games do not show up anymore! Are you kidding?!!!!

[xavierrtpv]

Originally posted by Szepy The One-Handed:

first of all saves from default-public version are not compatible with beta branch(test_edition), second thing is that saves are not listed if your mods changed, that can be changed by pressing ctrl+shift+s and changing the front_end.enable_strict_saved_game_filtering to false then restarting your game, you should see your saves then if they are from the same game version, but you might get an errors while loading them(depending on what the mods changes)

none of that applies to me, and all of my save games are magically gone... it looks like there was an update today, and apparently there have been updates in the past that rendered old save games unusable in the latest version, so I'm guessing that is what happened here.... which is not good, I just lost several hours of gameplay put into my most recent save

[rdavid22]

I am having the same issue. I don't know why but Sins2 created a new sub-folder in the parent location (C:\Users\[insert user name]\AppData\Local\sins2\saved_games\). The sub-folder names where my original saved was under just incremented by 1, so it was ...\1039\single_player_user and now it is ...\1040\single_player_user. The old saves are in the 1039 folder and the new "test" saves I created are in the 1040 folder. When I try to copy the save files from the 1039 folder to the 1040 folder, the save files are not showing up in the load game screen.

As @Xavierrtpv said, I think it might have to do with the update that was pushed today.

That's as far as I have gotten, but it was good to know my files are not gone. Hopefully someone can assist further.

Note: if you can't find the AppData parent folder then you likely need to show your hidden folders.

[AoH398]

This is stupid, I was almost through my first scenario and now I have to restart...

[rdavid22]

SOLVED!! The developers knew it would break save files. See the following link or the below instructions in order to play your old save files: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1575940/view/4611210477261139745

v28.10 Update Notes
A huge amount of gratitude to all of the Sinners who’ve joined our community! To say that we’ve been blown away by the amount of support is an understatement.

We’ve prepared a modest update from feedback we’ve gotten from the community, bug reports and more. Look for a larger update in the coming month or so.

Note: You will need to re-subscribe to all mods for this update. We apologize for the hassle; this will be a one-time thing.

This update will break save games and replays! You can still play them by using the previous version (see below).

Previous Version Instructions
If you wish to finish up your game on the previous version, do the following:

Select ‘Sins of a Solar Empire II’ in your Steam Library.
Click the gear icon in the upper right.
Select Properties → Betas
Select 'previous_edition' from the Beta Participation dropdown.
Steam will update you to the latest files.
To switch to latest repeat step 4 and select ‘None’

[MrSoul]

Ya this isn't from different game versions or fixed.

Playing last night, after updating to 28.16 with a friend, no problems. Saved it, went to bed.

Today, I cannot see any of my save files, I cannot join him when he goes to host because "the simulation framework does not match".

We have the same mod (tried disabling it, large fleet sizes), same version (28.16), I've tried bouncing back to previous versions (saves show up, but surprise surprise, incompatible game version, which is correct), verifying, Only system change was a driver update. PC's been off entire day until booted it up just now, saw no game updates happen in Steam. This is bizarre lol The game just won't quit it on thinking I don't have the same game version...when we do...and did 24 hrs ago playing just fine.

So we've given up on that game, just try starting a new one, game works fine otherwise right. But here's something for the X-file.

I got home before buddy, about half an hour, in that time I updated my AMD drivers.
Buddy, did not before booting up the game, but after hearing me mention that were new drivers, while I last ditch tried a reinstall, he updated. Now his saves are gone from last night too, why? how? Couldn't tell ya.