Can't use 3rd save slot without data being corrupted

[Blitzkowicz]

My other two save slots are in use from a 100% nightmare run and an ongoing extra life nightmare run, and I started up an ultra nightmare campaign today. After a few levels, at the end of the mission report, I clicked "exit to menu" instead of "save and continue". As soon as the menu loads, the game said "There was an error in loading your save file". Upon viewing the saves the game said "Save file corrupted" and prompts me to delete the save in the 3rd slot. I deleted it and tried reproducing the bug, and now, every time I create a save in the 3rd slot, upon quitting to the menu (or desktop), the file in the 3rd save slot ends up corrupted. It doesn't matter the difficulty or mode, it will always become corrupted after quitting.

There are no problems with the saves in the other two slots. I've tried verifying the game files and looking up the save data on my computer, but I have no idea what to do. Any help would be appreciated.

[Alistair]

Ultra nightmare you cant save and exit for some stupid reason. You have to alt F4. Like everything in this game its not a bug, its a feature.

But yes this happens to anyone who exits a UN run.

[Blitzkowicz]

Read my post, I now cannot create any kind of save in any kind of mode or difficulty in the 3rd slot without it being corrupted. (and corruption is not even the norm for UN runs)

I also left the UN run at the mission report screen, the only place you can properly save and exit, like my post said :)

[Blitzkowicz]

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Whenever I make a save in the 3rd slot, it shows up in Steam\userdata\[profile id]\782330\remote as GAME-AUTOSAVE2 as normal. I think something is causing it to flag as corrupted even though the file is perfectly fine.

[Smooth Operator]

Same here. Did you manage to fix it? It happens for me on ALL my slots. Basically can't play.

[Smooth Operator]

I managed to fix the issue while messing around with the steam userdata folder.

Solution:

- Fully close Steam.

- Go to your userdata folder inside your Steam folder: \userdata\<userId>\782330\remote

- Delete the "remotecache.vdf" file and the other numbered files that exist inside this folder (Do NOT remove the "remote" folder)

- Delete all the "GAME-AUTOSAVE#" folders inside your "remote" folder, or back them up first if you don't want to lose your saves (if you have any at this point) - Do NOT delete your "PROFILE" folder or you will lose all progression stats and stuff.

- Launch Steam.

- Launch Doom Eternal and the problem will be fixed. Now, if you want to restore your backed up save files, create some dummy save slots inside the game, exit it, and replace the "GAME-AUTOSAVE#" folders that have been created now with the ones you backed up earlier.

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The main problem here seems to be that the "remotecache.vdf" file had some save data cached inside it that didn't correspond to the actual save data that was being saved every time I created a new game. Steam issue I guess.

[Blitzkowicz]

OMG, dude, thank you. it worked perfectly and with steam sync on I didn't even have to back anything up. I knew something wasn't matching up in the files but could not figure it out myself.

I was waiting on Bethesda's support to get back to me and it was taking forever, I'm not even sure if they would have figured it out.