cant save creating save failed

[Steven]

so basics error is creating save file failed.

1. star field has access to folders in my documents to save full access not being blocked
2. I am not running one drive on windows I have that turned off all my folders are local
3. steam is set to cloud save anyways and so is star field.

i turned of cloud save on steam and it still gives error anyways.

there nothing blocking program from running or doing its thing or accessing where needs to access.

so whats left why error ?

[Bärle]

I have the same problem :(

[Steven]

Originally posted by Mr.Rabbit:

I have the same problem :(

some reason after i rebooted the game the saving stopped giving me error so no idea why it even did it first time.

[g_l_b]

Reboot corrected the permissions and allowed me to create a save game. You will need to redo the Intro and Character Creation

[Bärle]

Still doesn't work for me. I have applied for a refund.

[2-D]

Try to talk to Bethesda support, I opened a ticket and I'm currently talking to them via email, hopefully, they will help me fix the issue

[2-D]

Go to this website and try the steps it says,
For me, step 1 did the work (had to reinstall one drive to do step 1, but it worked)

https://gameserrors.com/starfield-failed-to-create-save-game/#:~:text=Lack%20of%20permission%3A%20The%20first,creating%20the%20save%20game%20file.

[DarthVidar]

We had this "Save Game Failed" error on one of our older gaming PC's in the house...

The game uses Cloud saving on Steam and XBoxLive/Gamepass, so as long as you have internet, Some of your savegames should be ok.. "out there".
(Have not tried the game offline)

We did the following to fix the issue on my sons XBox-GamePass-account.
- Logged on on my "new gaming PC". (one of 3 gaming PCs in the house)
- Logged on to the cloud/game account, (XBox-GamePass)
- Installed and started the game. (all binaries was there already, but userconfig needed creation/discovery of gamefiles)
- The last save was defect. We loaded the last game before this one, and it loaded ok.
- Tried saving on the "New Gaming PC", and it worked fine.
- Logged off "New shiny PC".
- Logged on to the "Old gamingPC" (z170/i5/16GB/1TB-nvme/GF1060)
- Started XBox/Starfield, and loaded the savegame again.
- Game loaded fine and saving worked again.

Seems to happen due to Game-save-sync-cache issues.
When game have been started on another computer to sync data, it seems to force full sync again on the first computer with failing local save-cache.