Game not load the saves.

[Wasteland Project]

The game cannot find the path to the save files, I think it can only find those inside One Drive (which I have definitively removed from the PC). Is there a programmable path to a .ini file or something?

[Silentios73]

your save files should be in the my documents\My Games\Saves folder.

[Wasteland Project]

Originally posted by Silentios73:

your save files should be in the my documents\My Games\Saves folder.

I know but the game doesn't seem to..
Unfortunately it started reading those within One Drive and does not read other paths.

[Wasteland Project]

It is now placing them in AppData/Local/Starfield/My Games/Starfield/Saves
Just move the others into this folder and it will read them.

[KieronDark]

I have put in more hours than I can count, hit level 35 last night and shut the game down. I started it back up this morning, played for a few minutes and when it tried to auto save it gave me a "cannot create save game error". I shut everything down, started the game again and I have no "load game' option. It is grayed out, even though my Quicksave, Autosave1, Autosave2, and all 742 of my manual saves are in the same directory they have been and should be in. I cannot get the game to read them at all...

[smr1957]

Did Windows update for you? That will often cause these types of issues - as well as sometimes re-enabling One Drive. So, that would be the first thing I would check. Also, make sure that the folders where the game data with your saves is located is not set to Read-Only.

[Wasteland Project]

Originally posted by KieronDark:

I have put in more hours than I can count, hit level 35 last night and shut the game down. I started it back up this morning, played for a few minutes and when it tried to auto save it gave me a "cannot create save game error". I shut everything down, started the game again and I have no "load game' option. It is grayed out, even though my Quicksave, Autosave1, Autosave2, and all 742 of my manual saves are in the same directory they have been and should be in. I cannot get the game to read them at all...

Originally posted by smr1957:

Did Windows update for you? That will often cause these types of issues - as well as sometimes re-enabling One Drive. So, that would be the first thing I would check. Also, make sure that the folders where the game data with your saves is located is not set to Read-Only.

Originally posted by Wasteland Project:

It is now placing them in AppData/Local/Starfield/My Games/Starfield/Saves
Just move the others into this folder and it will read them.

Yes are in One Drive, there is a complicated procedure to defuse the process.
With Fallout 4 it worked, by copying the saves from One Drive (and then unistall it) and transferring them to the My Games folder the game read them, but Starfield didn't. You will find the saves in that path in AppData, you need to check "hidden elements".
The "read only" ticks cannot be unchecked, strangely..

[KieronDark]

Originally posted by Wasteland Project:

Originally posted by KieronDark:

I have put in more hours than I can count, hit level 35 last night and shut the game down. I started it back up this morning, played for a few minutes and when it tried to auto save it gave me a "cannot create save game error". I shut everything down, started the game again and I have no "load game' option. It is grayed out, even though my Quicksave, Autosave1, Autosave2, and all 742 of my manual saves are in the same directory they have been and should be in. I cannot get the game to read them at all...

Originally posted by smr1957:

Did Windows update for you? That will often cause these types of issues - as well as sometimes re-enabling One Drive. So, that would be the first thing I would check. Also, make sure that the folders where the game data with your saves is located is not set to Read-Only.

Originally posted by Wasteland Project:

It is now placing them in AppData/Local/Starfield/My Games/Starfield/Saves
Just move the others into this folder and it will read them.

Yes are in One Drive, there is a complicated procedure to defuse the process.
With Fallout 4 it worked, by copying the saves from One Drive (and then unistall it) and transferring them to the My Games folder the game read them, but Starfield didn't. You will find the saves in that path in AppData, you need to check "hidden elements".
The "read only" ticks cannot be unchecked, strangely..

The problem with that is I don't have OneDrive on this computer. so there are no files to copy over. All 740+ save files that I have are in My Games folder. The last manual save in the folder is stamped last night 10/21/2023 9:29 pm, and the last Autosave is from this morning 10/22/2023 11:30 AM (there is also a Exitsave from that same time. I read the fix regarding OneDrive, GoogleDrive, Anti-Virus and Windows Fieewall. I have made all files, folders/dierctories unhidden so I could see everything and I don't have the specific folder that the instructions said to look for in AppData. Everything has been running just fine since 9/2/2023 until today.

This was a completely new build I did for D4, Starfield, other new 2023 games and because my last build was 10 years old. It has very little software other than Windows 11, Battlenet, Steam, MSI Afterburner, and NVidia Geoforce Experience. My system is running:
-Windows 11
-i9 13th Gen Raptor Lake 13900k CPU
-MSI Gaming Geforce RTX 4090 24GB GDRR6 - Liquid Cooled
-64GB DDR5 RAM
-2 Samsumg 980 Pro 2TB NVMe SSDs
-MSI MAG CoreLiquid 360R AIO Liquid Cooler

Because Starfield is optimized so poorly, making it very demanding on the CPU, I monitor the temps constantly with my Afterburner overlay. GPU never gets above 55C and CPU usually runs between 55V and 65C but never above 77C or 80C when it hits those high demand scenes/screens.

I don't have much time to game anymore. and this is really gutting to think I have lost all that time and effort because I probably won't have much of for quite awhile. I will seriously offer a $ prize/reward to whoever can help me resolve this.

I appreciate the response though.

[indianapapi]

I had this problem today this is how I fixed it.
1. I copied the saves folder to my desktop.
2. Uninstalled Starfield using the Steam desktop app.
3. Reinstalled Starfield.
4. Copy the saves folder to C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Starfield

[Adam]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.