What is going wrong with this game ?

[Dcadra]

I can't save ! I saw topics about this issues since the release and it still isn't fixed. Why ?

[Elegnaim]

What issue are you having with saving? My immediate thought is that something weird might be going on with Steam Cloud-related stuff and it's not the game itself, but I'm not sure how to troubleshoot that.

[Dcadra]

I lost something like 4hr of game. It's not a Steam Cloud Issue but a game issue. I'hv found some topics about this issue from the release time that devs never fixed. For some (trouble) reason, the exe of this game is sometimes scanning as a false positive by windows defender on Win11 while playing. Even when you click on "authorize this" on defender, even after few "clean install", defender keep shooting out the exe. The result of this is not crashing the game but hidding all save files. When you go to a save point to save, all you slot are blank. If you had not save for some hr (like me that day) you lost everyting.

Even if you go on defend and authorise again the exe while playing and restore it, you still can't save.

Weird bug for a not as hyped game as that. BUT the only other "official" Steam game that caused me trouble with Defend was DQ3Hd-2D, an other recent game. So, its maybe a new Steam DRM issue.

It's not me, it's not my PC, i'm pretty sure about this.

[Elegnaim]

I'm guessing Defender's picking up on some DRM thing like you said and that's breaking Steam Cloud Saves because the game can't upload to/download from the cloud.

... Although I don't know why that would happen, Square-Enix releases have been using Denuvo for awhile now so Windows Defender shouldn't be throwing false positives about it?

Still sounds more like a problem with something external to RS2 in any case. Wouldn't be surprised if Microsoft pushed something that broke Windows Defender.

[Dcadra]

Hi mate, it's NOT a Steam Cloud Issue. When you have Steam Cloud enabled and save your game (however wich steam game is), you save your both in your documents as data and on the Steam Cloud. Here, the issue is an empty box message. When you try to save, all save slot are simply blank and a pop up shows and says that you can't save for now. When you try to reload, all your saves are gone.

[theoriginaleddie2000]

Had the same issue asking steam support did it with me using a steamdeck

[huangism]

turn off defender if that's the issue

[ContraWars]

Sounds a bit like a permissions issue. When launching your game, make sure it is escalated or running as administrator.


As far as steam cloud issues with saves go, I've ran into instances where a game like Trails in the Sky 2 would save or load no problem, but by putting a Steam Deck to sleep and waking back up, it would completely lock out the actual writing of local save data. Disabling the cloud syncing fixed it.

[Maverick81PL]

Originally posted by Dcadra:

I can't save ! I saw topics about this issues since the release and it still isn't fixed. Why ?

Do you have admin rights on windows?

[Maverick81PL]

Originally posted by theoriginaleddie2000:

Had the same issue asking steam support did it with me using a steamdeck

playing on Steam Deck and have no issue with game. Works amazing. Save works with cloud save.

[FuriousDevi]

The last months games on saving has been an issue for me too until i turned off windows defender folder protection completely. For some reason it kept games from creating save and modifying save files.