savegame missing

[gimpy]

so once again for the 20th time. i have to restart a game. cause fs 17 is sooo crap. every 2 days this game decides its gonna remove my save files from the game. think this is the last farm sim i buy. its not my computer my computer is fine. fs 15 and fs 13 ran fine. never had any issues. fs 17 seems 3-4 times a week this game causes some kind of issue. im tired of it. i work to hard and to much to have to deal with this BS on my time off.

[ih8uall]

im wondering how many people have this problem.
i have close to 1000 hours on FS17 and i never ever had my save game deleted.
never

[Eaglekeeper]

I had the same problem for awhile. Think it was a mod. Now I just use the minimum mods I think I need.

[Knottypine]

You must be doing something wrong. Doesn't make sense. I've never had my saves go missing.

[gimpy]

no its related to either steam or farm sim. to get around this issue of your save game being deleted. first right click on farm sim in your libary, unclick cloud sync and then go to your documents, games, farm sim. look for save game backup. look for the date and time. and copy the contents of that file to whatever save game number or slot you have open. then load up farm sim. im just tired of this happening to me. hope this helps the people above. from what i found out. it happens quite often. it has to do with steams cloud sync or farm sim end. nothing to do with mods.

[Procobator]

I don't know for certain what it is but I'm almost certain it's not the base FS17 game or steam causing it.

[gimpy]

Originally posted by Procobator:

I don't know for certain what it is but I'm almost certain it's not the base FS17 game or steam causing it.

yes it is. its something to do with the cloud not sync your save data right. so its either on farm sim side or steams. thats why you would need to disable it. in order to retrieve your back up save data. other wise itll just keep on deleting it. i only use mods from the in game mod hub. so if its mod related then its on farm sim side. as they are ones who add those mods to said hub for its player base to download. its not my computer cause the amount of money that has been put into it. will make me a king in south america.

[jules.stmp537]

Steam cloud sync corruption has been suspected by some of us for both FS15 and 17.

GIANTS use what I call a poor man's Steam cloud sync. The full cloud sync requires using a staging area and then verifying the integrity of any save game files restored by Steam's cloud sync. The developer has to write code in the game to verifying the files in the staging area and then decide if the local save game files should be overwritten.

In a poor man's sync, the cloud sync files are restored directly to the game's local save game area, no verification of the files by the game. It means less code written by the developer but it relies on the Steam cloud sync working perfectly every time.

[jules.stmp537]

Originally posted by ALL_HOPE_IS_GONE:

Originally posted by Procobator:

I don't know for certain what it is but I'm almost certain it's not the base FS17 game or steam causing it.

yes it is. its something to do with the cloud not sync your save data right. so its either on farm sim side or steams. thats why you would need to disable it. in order to retrieve your back up save data. other wise itll just keep on deleting it. i only use mods from the in game mod hub. so if its mod related then its on farm sim side. as they are ones who add those mods to said hub for its player base to download. its not my computer cause the amount of money that has been put into it. will make me a king in south america.

Read your post earlier, but I did not notice one sentence buried in the middle of your text. There is no guarantee that the user written mods on modhub will not cause any damage to your game.

GIANTS even have a disclaimer at the bottom of each modhub web page about user made content.

[gimpy]

Originally posted by jules.stmp537:

Originally posted by ALL_HOPE_IS_GONE:

yes it is. its something to do with the cloud not sync your save data right. so its either on farm sim side or steams. thats why you would need to disable it. in order to retrieve your back up save data. other wise itll just keep on deleting it. i only use mods from the in game mod hub. so if its mod related then its on farm sim side. as they are ones who add those mods to said hub for its player base to download. its not my computer cause the amount of money that has been put into it. will make me a king in south america.

Read your post earlier, but I did not notice one sentence buried in the middle of your text. There is no guarantee that the user written mods on modhub will not cause any damage to your game.

GIANTS even have a disclaimer at the bottom of each modhub web page about user made content.

i know this. but if people are claiming its a mod issue. then it should be a more common issue since i only use the mods giants add to the mod hub.

[Vellari]

Well, there is a thing C:\Users\<username>\Documents\My Games\FarmingSimulator2017\savegameBackup

You're saying those are all broken/missing?

[X]

Originally posted by ALL_HOPE_IS_GONE:

Originally posted by jules.stmp537:

Read your post earlier, but I did not notice one sentence buried in the middle of your text. There is no guarantee that the user written mods on modhub will not cause any damage to your game.

GIANTS even have a disclaimer at the bottom of each modhub web page about user made content.

i know this. but if people are claiming its a mod issue. then it should be a more common issue since i only use the mods giants add to the mod hub.

Mod's on Giants mod hub isent a garantie that a mod not make issue in your maingame
thats not the same as its a common issue.... I never had problems that my savegame lost in this 17 Fs... but i also not download 100 mods,only few .. And i download 1 mod at time and play it a while until i try another one so i dont have to test 100 mods if have issue.. And i not use steam cloud after i saved a game and could not load it to start ever again so all my work was destroyed,but i have never had tryed that my save game dissapear not in 11-13-15-17.... So if not cloud issue its a mod issue,not a common issue..

[gimpy]

Originally posted by Vellari:

Well, there is a thing C:\Users\<username>\Documents\My Games\FarmingSimulator2017\savegameBackup

You're saying those are all broken/missing?

no. but sometimes those corrupt as well. depends on where the corruption happens with the save file. like i said and people above. its a bug or problem with could sync with fs 17. dont have this issue with any other games. or farm sims before this.