Crashes Every Save--Explain Like I'm Five?

[Artie The Moon]

Yesterday, the game worked fine. 2 hours ago, the game worked fine. Now, every time I try to save the game it crashes to windows, with no error message.

Initially, I thought it was just hitting the z key. Then I re-mapped quick save and thought it was just quick save. Then, I discovered it was all types of save when I tried a regular save.

I uninstalled, reinstalled, verified the files, uninstalled again, restarted my entire computer, reinstalled again, verified the files again, and it keeps crashing. I don't know what to do.

Every discussion thread I found got very technical very quick and I did not understand it a lick. Please help me like I am five or a cave man 🙏

[cheshirm]

assuming windows, check windows event viewer and also windows reliability history.
might be a game crash event or system related errors. an error msg would help.

if you have steam cloud turned on, try turning it off then try saving.
if that fixes the problem steam cloud troubleshooting at:
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/68D2-35AB-09A9-7678
and
check cloud_log.txt and cloud_log.previous.txt files in folder
...\steam\logs
lines with appid 403640 are about this game
might be an error msg

saves are located in folder
c:\users\YourWIndowsLogin\Saved Games\Arkane Studios\Dishonored2\base\savegame

check antivirus log and also windows security/controlled folder access. maybe they got turned on.

[Artie The Moon]

Originally posted by cheshirm:

assuming windows, check windows event viewer and also windows reliability history.
might be a game crash event or system related errors. an error msg would help.

if you have steam cloud turned on, try turning it off then try saving.
if that fixes the problem steam cloud troubleshooting at:
https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/68D2-35AB-09A9-7678
and
check cloud_log.txt and cloud_log.previous.txt files in folder
...\steam\logs
lines with appid 403640 are about this game
might be an error msg

saves are located in folder
c:\users\YourWIndowsLogin\Saved Games\Arkane Studios\Dishonored2\base\savegame

check antivirus log and also windows security/controlled folder access. maybe they got turned on.

Hi! Yes, it is Windows. Sorry for not mentioning that in the main post. I forgot.

I tried turning off the cloud and it did not work. When I found the 403640 file in the program files, there were no text files inside. And under steam logs, there were none labeled with 403640. I don't know how to check antivirus logs or security files.

I haven't gotten any error messages from steam, that I know of

[cheshirm]

you will have to research what antivirus is running on your machine. there are lots of them.

in windows search, type reliability
view reliability history should appear. run that.
the red x's are errors. click on them and view technical details