Where is my SAVED game?

[HardPro]

Load Cities Launcher, select Resume -> Continue is greyed out? Ok - click on Load Game, where is my Saved (cloud) game gone, its no longer on list , instead a bunch of autosaves
ok, time to request refund

[cwassa]

This has happened to one of my games about 5 times - keep checking - it will re-appear … i have then saved two copies each time - one to local and one to cloud drive

[HardPro]

Anyone else having issues with missing saved games?

[yolo]

Originally posted by HardPro:

Anyone else having issues with missing saved games?

yes, me too. 20 hours gone

[danmak27]

I've had to update my nvidia driver 3-4 times since this game released to make it run.
Seems like they throw out a new driver every time a patch comes out.
Try that, if you haven't already, and, of course, if you have a nvidia card.

[HardPro]

I had 38.4 hours in that city, cant believe it could be gone.

[danmak27]

Originally posted by HardPro:

I had 38.4 hours in that city, cant believe it could be gone.

I haven't lost any saves yet. Maybe because I save on "Local" and not in the cloud.
Something is messed up with Steam cloud for some people. Don't know what.

[Nigel Thornberry]

Ive lost 2 saves of my city so i've gotten in the habit of saving twice before quitting and opening saves from the load screen, not 'continue city' or whatever the tab is.

[JustChad]

I had this happen to me. I googled and found that this game series has a bad track record with Steam Cloud.

I recommend everyone disable Steam Cloud for this game, because the developers can't be trusted to release updates that will not destroy your data.

[HardPro]

OMG are they serious? this has to be the worse release ive experienced in a long time, and that's saying something. Missing saved games is properly the worse issue you can have with a city builder.

[sternenstaub70]

My guess is, It depends a lot on your internet connection - and on steam itself.
Savefiles are pretty big, it takes a while to upload them to the steam cloud, especially on slow internet connections.
Another problem might be if your steam cloud is full; keep in mind you have only a limited amount of space available on steam.
If the manual savefile exceeds the remaining space, it won't be saved.

Another problem might be If you end the game and/or close steam and/or shutdown windows before the steam application has fully uploaded the savegame it's very likely the savegame is gone because it may have not fully uploaded yet.

[JustChad]

Originally posted by sternenstaub70:

My guess is, It depends a lot on your internet connection - and on steam itself.
Savefiles are pretty big, it takes a while to upload them to the steam cloud, especially on slow internet connections.
Another problem might be if your steam cloud is full; keep in mind you have only a limited amount of space available on steam.
If the manual savefile exceeds the remaining space, it won't be saved.

Another problem might be If you end the game and/or close steam and/or shutdown windows before the steam application has fully uploaded the savegame it's very likely the savegame is gone because it may have not fully uploaded yet.

While these are logical conclusions, you're wrong.

I took a deep dive into it, and I found that many of the save files linger in my system, but have been reduced to 0 or 1 kb. In the steam cloud dashboard it shows no data at all. So, something happened that caused a discrepancy between the two, and then the game somehow destroyed the data on my machine, but left the files structure. It did this to both the manual saves and auto saves.

I have never had any problems with Steam Cloud, other than an occasional de-sync that could be resolved by booting the game on the machine with the save you want to preserve. I live in a major metropolitan area, and have good internet. I did not experience any crashes with Skylines 2, other than during the initial stages of tweaking the graphics settings before playing the game.

Cities Skylines 2 is definitely at fault. I believe it has something to do with the way they are performing updates. Though I experienced it with the first update, I notice there are waves of posts like it when they release a patch.

Don't trust them not to make the mistake again, I encourage everyone to disable Steam Cloud saves for this game.

[HardPro]

I am so devo about losing my first City! 40hrs + might not sound like much to hardcore fans, but for casuals like me; its so devastating. I cant bring myself to start again.

[JustChad]

Originally posted by HardPro:

its so devastating. I cant bring myself to start again.

I sympathize, sorry for you loss.

[Seikatsu]

Originally posted by Nigel Thornberry:

Ive lost 2 saves of my city so i've gotten in the habit of saving twice before quitting and opening saves from the load screen, not 'continue city' or whatever the tab is.

this doesnt help as i dont use that "continue" thing but my save is still gone... this sucks man. all the time i have spent in that city, just gone

[HardPro]

I can see from other threads it appears that its NOT an isolated issue, other are having similar issues.