Saved Game Won't Load

[MrDeity]

I don't have any MODs enabled. I do have all of the official DLCs though. I don't recall the year but I know I'm late game, but my saved game won't load. It gets stuck at around 95%.

Anyone know how to fix this or did I just waste 100 hours?

[Demian]

If you're playing ironman and there's only one save file and it got corrupted then it's pretty much it for the game

and uhh considering you did play for 100 hours the game might just not react all too well to all the things that's happening in the late game: maybe there's too much to process

[MrDeity]

Not playing Ironman. Too much to process? That means the game is broken if that's the case.

[Demian]

Does this problem occur when trying to load older saves too? If yes, does it occur on new game's saves?

If it's a yes to the 1 question, then yep, that particular game is dead most likely
if there's a problem in loading any save, it's something else. Wouldn't hurt reinstalling the whole thing

[Esoaakm]

I'm having the exact same issue, the game gets stuck at 95% loading and won't move. Have you found a solution?

[Synopse]

Check Demian's posts for trouble shooting.
It is a know issues that sometimes a save game corrupt for no visible reason. Chances are high that older saves still work. However on iron man, there is only one save.

[MrDeity]

Originally posted by Esoaakm:

I'm having the exact same issue, the game gets stuck at 95% loading and won't move. Have you found a solution?

I managed to finish the game. The failure to load saved games seemed to occur more frequently if I saved when the game was on a high speed settings. I had much better luck with my saved games that were saved during normal game speed mode. I would also typically zoom inside a small system without many assets before saving, as that seemed to help as well.

The problem seemed to be an issue with the game's ability to load saved game files having too many assets needed to be loaded into memory. I was playing on a HUGE galaxy map with almost every star system already claimed (mostly by AI civilizations). This is pure speculation, but it might be an issue with the game getting caught in an infinite loop of what should be sequentially loaded assets.

I have an AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core processor, 32768MB of fast RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti, so my hardware was definitely not an issue. It's basically a new, custom build (built last year). I've played dozens of new and AAA games on this same PC without any issues whatsoever.