Can't load saved game

[Heindal]

Loading my previous saved game will freeze the game, as well as when I hit continue. The game will be frozen, worst of this bug is - I can't even reach the task manager to close the tab, as mouse is completely disabled inside all other windows (it seems to work in the start bar). Even key commands won't work, inside windows so I can't do anything else but to restart the computer. I will try to reload another loaded game, it could be connected to cloud update which never worked for me in first place, but the with the new update the steam cloud updated worked at once.

[Furious Fury]

Hey, that sounds really strange. It should give you an error message if you try to load a corrupt savegame though. If you need further help, you can send a bug report with F2 from within the game (even main menu) and select "Stuck", we can then get in contact via email, to help out

[Heindal]

Hi Furious Fury,

after restarting the computer for the third time (I had two save games with the same date, and once I pressed continue), I tried to reload a save game with an older date. That worked! After that I could reload the other saved games. Maybe that is a solution for others.

It could also be, that I was too quick and changed screens to quickly and once I was contacted via Steam Message - but usually this is no problem inside the game.

I think it had to do with the cloud sync, usually that never worked for me so I skipped that by pressing abort two times, than you can skip the cloud sync. I do this in other games as well, never had any problems.

You can close the post and thanks for your quick response.

[dlreachforthestars]

Same issue here. It’s a weird freeze where I can drop to windows but loose the mouse cursor, through ctrl alt del can get to blue screen and restart from there. Happens loading from continue, very rarely, and it loads up until the background noise if wherever I am plays and then just stops. No errors get reported by the game or in the event viewer.

[dlreachforthestars]

Also I don’t have to loose my own saves, the top save it pulls from at continue is I suspect an auto save and those seem to be the ones it happens with so I will try loading from mine rather then continue and see if it happens again.

[Furious Fury]

Thanks for sharing, we are looking at the issue, but could not yet reproduce it. As a workaround you can try to start a new game and then load the older savegame from there. This apparently works surprisingly often when the bug occurs.
Sorry for the inconvenience!

[Kanamora]

Same Probleme one my side :-/

[Aldervirt]

The same thing happened to me..

[HanHan]

Originally posted by Kanamora:

Same Probleme one my side :-/

Originally posted by Aldervirt:

The same thing happened to me..

To both of you, does the provided workaround from the solution fixes the problem for you or does it still happen to you?

[Agent Nova]

March 2025 and I am experiencing the same issue

[LDiCesare]

Same problem here. The real issue is not so much opening another save but having to restart the PC. I usually have important/interesting stuff in the background, and losing all my work is not a good thing.

[LDiCesare]

I encounter the issue either with corrupted saves or if some process is running in the background that is cpu/gpu greedy. The real issue is having to reboot here.

[HanHan]

Hello,
can both of you just do a report ingame in the main menu with F2?
I'm not sure whats the problem here but it could have to do something with the screenshot function for the savegames but i'm not sure so i would like to look into your graphic settings like resolution/graphic card and so on.