Will I have to start over?

[de-fi]

Last night I fast traveled to Central Executive, some NPC's were stuck in walls. There was no way out of CE, walking or fast travel. It was like there was an incursion going on in there too (red glow). I thought it may be part of the game for a moment.

Anyway, I reload and I'm still stuck in CE with no way out. I copy over some back up saves and I get a message that says--

"The saved game contains downloadable content not currently available in this session. Please install 'Unknown DLC' and try again or start a new game without the missing content."

It states this on all saved files now. I've only had the Ult. Edition. And didn't copy anything over from Epic saves. IDK what to do

[animal_PLANET]

Seems like you may have corrupted your saves when copying the backup? Do you have steam cloud enabled? If so, exit steam, delete the saves locally and re-load the game. Your backup saves from steam cloud will be re-acquired. Make a backup of your saves first though. Hopefully your files did not upload corrupt or this wont work at all.

You can also try this guide I made awhile ago on how to backup from a previous save.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/870780/discussions/0/2943621444609065794/

[de-fi]

Originally posted by animal_PLANET:

Seems like you may have corrupted your saves when copying the backup? Do you have steam cloud enabled? If so, exit steam, delete the saves locally and re-load the game. Your backup saves from steam cloud will be re-acquired. Make a backup of your saves first though. Hopefully your files did not upload corrupt or this wont work at all.

You can also try this guide I made awhile ago on how to backup from a previous save.

https://steamcommunity.com/app/870780/discussions/0/2943621444609065794/

TY for reply. I originally downloaded CUE to my new NVME at the time. Then decided to move everything else back over to my HDD after reformatting. For what ever reason I can only play, load and save this game to my NVME now.

The saves only work on my NVME and I had to start from Mission select 'Polaris. Which isn't an L considering that's one of the best parts of the game, and I don't have to start all over again.

[animal_PLANET]

Did you move your game folders thru steam? As doing that manually is where the conflict may have started. You shouldnt be locked to only 1 drive to play games. Steam has the option to move and change game installation folders. If you want try this.

Make sure Control is not running and has synced to steam cloud. Make a backup of all your saves just in case. Than uninstall Control and change the folder in the downloads section of steam settings to the drive you want game installed. Also, try deleting the games save folder as well, not just the saves.

Once you run game the saves will be downloaded and should run off the drive you changed it to. I would suggest keep the games if you have room on the NVMe as you will get better performance.

[de-fi]

I think I played around with every folder, save, HDD, and reinstall combo I could have. Honestly I don't remember how I moved the folder(s). I'm sure I just copied the folder (steam game saves) to the desktop, and reinstalled steam to the newly formatted HDD.

Games running fine now. Only downside is having to launch steam separately if I want to play the other games on the HDD. No other game saves were corrupted however.

[animal_PLANET]

Hmm ok, you may want to check Settings>Downloads>Steam Library Folders, and make sure games are installing where you want them. Do not do it manually or you will confuse Steam on where things are.

You may have installed steam on both your HDD and NVMe. That is why you are having that issue with Control. Make sure you have only 1 installation of Steam.

So if Steam is installed on your NVMe and you want your game installations to be on your HDD or vice versa. Check your settings.