I can't save.

[taranwalker]

I've been playing for a few hours, and in that time, 'save game' and 'load game' have always been greyed out. I'd like to take a break, and shut the game down, but I'm afraid of losing all my progress.

[Fridge Lord]

After entering the downstairs at the beginning of the game, hitting the Escape key no longer even brings up the menu. I have no way to even access the settings or save/load options. :(

[RaginCanayjin]

December 2nd, just wasted 4 hours of time as the "Save Game" option is greyed out. Amazing.

[jammer_kelly]

Developers,

I recently submitted a bug report of a SAVE problem that I can repeat at will. I successfully internalized a first thought early day1. Since then, if I complete internalizing a second thought, immediately at conversation end - I can no longer save. Backing up and stopping the internalization fixes the problem. I've moved thru the game and have repeated the problem in subsequent days with 3 different thoughts. I am running both DE and Steam as Administrator.

Can you tell me if this is a known problem being worked? And if there are any workaround I can take in the meantime, cause otherwise I love the game. Thanks Jim

[ReMeDy]

Originally posted by CPC Sushi:

Got a similar problem and it turns out that having a thought that was finished but not yet "validated" did prevent the game from saving

Agreed. I noticed that too. Accessing the Thought Bank made a pop-up display, saying I completed a Thought. I could then save. Very weird.

I knew my problem wasn't the Administrator, since I was able to save just fine for the first several hours, so I found it strange my Save function suddenly broke.

[jammer_kelly]

ReMeDY: THATS IT !!! I did what you suggested, accessed the Thought Bank after internalization and got the Thought Complete message and could then save. In my test cases I never got that message in normal play, but forcing it as u described was the difference maker. Many thanks...

[Foibleson_YouTube]

Originally posted by ReMeDy:

Originally posted by CPC Sushi:

Got a similar problem and it turns out that having a thought that was finished but not yet "validated" did prevent the game from saving

Agreed. I noticed that too. Accessing the Thought Bank made a pop-up display, saying I completed a Thought. I could then save. Very weird.

I knew my problem wasn't the Administrator, since I was able to save just fine for the first several hours, so I found it strange my Save function suddenly broke.

THIS! check your thoughts section and then the "solution" will pop up. After that you should be able to save.

[IAmDaven]

FYI after waking up on the second day I cannot save, not sure why.
I cannot save in my room, coming down the stairs, or in the hall after rejoining KK.

[Greyhawk4x4]

Originally posted by Foibleson:

Originally posted by ReMeDy:

Agreed. I noticed that too. Accessing the Thought Bank made a pop-up display, saying I completed a Thought. I could then save. Very weird.

I knew my problem wasn't the Administrator, since I was able to save just fine for the first several hours, so I found it strange my Save function suddenly broke.

THIS! check your thoughts section and then the "solution" will pop up. After that you should be able to save.

I can CONFIRM....this worked for me as well. Thanks!!

[Killerozo]

Presss button T on keyboard, this open menu and realy help me

[Joufflu]

I can't believe this bug is still happening in 2021. It made me quit the game last year, I came back thinking the Final Cut would have fix it, but no.

Anyway I think I have found a fix for the save errors, so here is my experience:
Whenever I hit F5 for quick saving, I've got an error message with a prompt asking me to send a report. The game can continue though, so I have no idea the save was broken at that point, but what you realize later is that the save failed. Sometimes it happens for an Autosave or a normal Save as well.

Strangely, the Disco Elysium folder located in the User/Name/AppData folder of my PC was on Read Only. I unticked the box, thinking this would fix the problem, but NO, it didn't.

I noticed that inside the SaveGames folder, the save files names were sometimes in English, sometimes in French as I use both language when playing (with the L hotkey). Like: Martinaise Day 1 and Martinaise Jour 1. Could this entail issues? I launched the game again, (not in admin mind you, just a normal launch through Steam), the bug was still here, couldn't quicksave, BUT as soon as I hit L and use english, then the quick save worked as intended.

I'm not saying that will fix the problem for everyone as I'm not able to reproduce the problem/fix, now the game seems to save properly. But if you encounter this atrocious issue, give it a try.

[WZ]

It happened to me once, and had got nothing to do with admin / non admin, since it's the exact same pc / user / setup as I used for my full playthrough. I hit quicksave, as I've done a million times before, and from that moment on, all save options were greyed out. A simple restart the game fixed it, thankfully I noticed it early & not ages later.

[gfinleyg]

I was experiencing one of the variations of this issue too. Had a quicksave I'd made at the church and shortly after various different actions, save and quicksave were locked out in the menu. Restarting the game would get me back to my quicksave, but usually within the next 15-30m they would be locked out.

(TLDR) What resolved it for me was temporarily unequipping everything.

[Iconium]

Hello everyone, I was playing the game since 2020. I experienced this issue yesterday. After I read about the not validated thoughts I took a look. All the thoughts were validated but I was keeping my skill points undistributed (I was planning to spend them when I need a specific skill). I spent them and vola! it is working now.

So It might be safe to say that if you have spare skill points or not validated thoughts you might experience this issue. Spending points and validating thought will solve it.