[PC] Cannot Save Changes

[pozzum]

Hi There,

 

So I cannot seem to save any changes to my game, weather it's universe progress, roster changes, entrance changes, caw changes.  All have been attempted and no changes stick.  I have not lost my save as the changes I did earlier in the week are there.

If anyone has had a similar issue and has a possible solution please let me know.

I'm fairly close to reinstalling and wiping my save, which would probably require a week of work to fix everything.

[beastedot9]

This sounds like your autosave got messed up somehow. A video would help me see the process if you have the time of course :). 

[MDTornado]

Maybe autosave got some problem.....

[pozzum]

This sounds like your autosave got messed up somehow. A video would help me see the process if you have the time of course :). 

I'll try to record something tonight, I'm also going to completely cut all my saves & Backups out of the remote folder and put them somewhere else just to test.  Won't be Until Late Tonight.

Maybe autosave got some problem.....

Is there a Autosave Option in the game that perhaps I turned off somehow?

[MDTornado]

This sounds like your autosave got messed up somehow. A video would help me see the process if you have the time of course :). 

I'll try to record something tonight, I'm also going to completely cut all my saves & Backups out of the remote folder and put them somewhere else just to test.  Won't be Until Late Tonight.

Maybe autosave got some problem.....

Is there a Autosave Option in the game that perhaps I turned off somehow?

Yeah the autosave feature is in game options.....

[pozzum]

This sounds like your autosave got messed up somehow. A video would help me see the process if you have the time of course :). 

I'll try to record something tonight, I'm also going to completely cut all my saves & Backups out of the remote folder and put them somewhere else just to test.  Won't be Until Late Tonight.

Maybe autosave got some problem.....

Is there a Autosave Option in the game that perhaps I turned off somehow?

Yeah the autosave feature is in game options.....

I'll make sure to double check that then... this might just me being unaware of that then.

[beastedot9]

It is? That's new to me. He might be talking about the console version, I'll have to double check that too lol.

[pozzum]

It is? That's new to me. He might be talking about the console version, I'll have to double check that too lol.

If you find out let me know.

[beastedot9]

It is? That's new to me. He might be talking about the console version, I'll have to double check that too lol.

If you find out let me know.

I am yet to find that option to be honest. Did a few searches and it seems auto-save is the only option and can't be turned off. Do you have any backed up saves that you can reload to see if they work? X-packer should have created this automatically for you, it's probably not ideal but currently I don't see a way around this.

Edited July 20, 2015 by beastedot9

[pozzum]

It is? That's new to me. He might be talking about the console version, I'll have to double check that too lol.

If you find out let me know.

I am yet to find that option to be honest. Did a few searches and it seems auto-save is the only option and can't be turned off. Do you have any backed up saves that you can reload to see if they work? X-packer should have created this automatically for you, it's probably not ideal but currently I don't see a way around this.

I tried running a new save with Carl's Save swapper and that didn't appear to change anything.  I'm going to completely remove all my backups from the remote folder and start new and see what happens tonight.  I also did try backups from before I had this issue and they also didn't appear to reflect any changes I made.

[beastedot9]

 

I tried running a new save with Carl's Save swapper and that didn't appear to change anything.  I'm going to completely remove all my backups from the remote folder and start new and see what happens tonight.  I also did try backups from before I had this issue and they also didn't appear to reflect any changes I made.

Hmm that is really weird. The swapper has an auto-save feature right? Just wondering whether that could have overriden and messed up the game's save. Let me know if a completely new save works.

[Carlzilla]

The ONLY TIME the swapper touches the files in the main directory in any way other than to simply copy them to a new location is when you load a back up or new save, and even then all it does is delete them and replace them with the back up files (or none at all in the case of a new save). The auto-save feature automatically updates the appropriately named back-up in your remote/saves/ folder (which is where the swapper saves all the backed up saves to be swapped), it doesn't touch the files in the /remote/ folder other than to copy them to the new location. It makes no changes to any of the files, settings, and doesn't access anything from the game.

I'm certainly not saying that the swapper couldn't have caused problems, but it's highly doubtful. considering that even a totally empty save directory isn't producing different results. 

My only suggestion to you might be to turn the save to cloud option on in steam, clear your save folder, and let it download the last save you uploaded to the cloud and see if you can save to that one. If you can, it's some strange issue that may only be fixed by a full on reinstall of game files.

[pozzum]

The ONLY TIME the swapper touches the files in the main directory in any way other than to simply copy them to a new location is when you load a back up or new save, and even then all it does is delete them and replace them with the back up files (or none at all in the case of a new save). The auto-save feature automatically updates the appropriately named back-up in your remote/saves/ folder (which is where the swapper saves all the backed up saves to be swapped), it doesn't touch the files in the /remote/ folder other than to copy them to the new location. It makes no changes to any of the files, settings, and doesn't access anything from the game.

I'm certainly not saying that the swapper couldn't have caused problems, but it's highly doubtful. considering that even a totally empty save directory isn't producing different results. 

My only suggestion to you might be to turn the save to cloud option on in steam, clear your save folder, and let it download the last save you uploaded to the cloud and see if you can save to that one. If you can, it's some strange issue that may only be fixed by a full on reinstall of game files.

So it seems it was fixed by closing the game with the X in the corner as opposed to going through quit game.

And @beastedot9 was the one that suggested that too me, seems to have worked.  This was after reinstalling and still having save issues, but I was able to copy over back my old install and my old save and everything went back to normal save wise.  Like I said to beasted, I lost Sun & Mon but at least I didn't have to reinstall anything

[Carlzilla]

Glad to hear it's working.

[Lord Gaben]

The ONLY TIME the swapper touches the files in the main directory in any way other than to simply copy them to a new location is when you load a back up or new save, and even then all it does is delete them and replace them with the back up files (or none at all in the case of a new save). The auto-save feature automatically updates the appropriately named back-up in your remote/saves/ folder (which is where the swapper saves all the backed up saves to be swapped), it doesn't touch the files in the /remote/ folder other than to copy them to the new location. It makes no changes to any of the files, settings, and doesn't access anything from the game.

I'm certainly not saying that the swapper couldn't have caused problems, but it's highly doubtful. considering that even a totally empty save directory isn't producing different results. 

My only suggestion to you might be to turn the save to cloud option on in steam, clear your save folder, and let it download the last save you uploaded to the cloud and see if you can save to that one. If you can, it's some strange issue that may only be fixed by a full on reinstall of game files.

So it seems it was fixed by closing the game with the X in the corner as opposed to going through quit game.

And @beastedot9 was the one that suggested that too me, seems to have worked.  This was after reinstalling and still having save issues, but I was able to copy over back my old install and my old save and everything went back to normal save wise.  Like I said to beasted, I lost Sun & Mon but at least I didn't have to reinstall anything

I'm having the same problem, and could you tell me exactly what you did to fix the issue? @pozzum

Edited July 23, 2015 by Lord Gaben

[pozzum]

The ONLY TIME the swapper touches the files in the main directory in any way other than to simply copy them to a new location is when you load a back up or new save, and even then all it does is delete them and replace them with the back up files (or none at all in the case of a new save). The auto-save feature automatically updates the appropriately named back-up in your remote/saves/ folder (which is where the swapper saves all the backed up saves to be swapped), it doesn't touch the files in the /remote/ folder other than to copy them to the new location. It makes no changes to any of the files, settings, and doesn't access anything from the game.

I'm certainly not saying that the swapper couldn't have caused problems, but it's highly doubtful. considering that even a totally empty save directory isn't producing different results. 

My only suggestion to you might be to turn the save to cloud option on in steam, clear your save folder, and let it download the last save you uploaded to the cloud and see if you can save to that one. If you can, it's some strange issue that may only be fixed by a full on reinstall of game files.

So it seems it was fixed by closing the game with the X in the corner as opposed to going through quit game.

And @beastedot9 was the one that suggested that too me, seems to have worked.  This was after reinstalling and still having save issues, but I was able to copy over back my old install and my old save and everything went back to normal save wise.  Like I said to beasted, I lost Sun & Mon but at least I didn't have to reinstall anything

I'm having the same problem, and could you tell me exactly what you did to fix the issue? @pozzum

Played the game in Windowed Mode, Closed the game with the X in the corner instead of Quitting the game normally.

[Lord Gaben]

The ONLY TIME the swapper touches the files in the main directory in any way other than to simply copy them to a new location is when you load a back up or new save, and even then all it does is delete them and replace them with the back up files (or none at all in the case of a new save). The auto-save feature automatically updates the appropriately named back-up in your remote/saves/ folder (which is where the swapper saves all the backed up saves to be swapped), it doesn't touch the files in the /remote/ folder other than to copy them to the new location. It makes no changes to any of the files, settings, and doesn't access anything from the game.

I'm certainly not saying that the swapper couldn't have caused problems, but it's highly doubtful. considering that even a totally empty save directory isn't producing different results. 

My only suggestion to you might be to turn the save to cloud option on in steam, clear your save folder, and let it download the last save you uploaded to the cloud and see if you can save to that one. If you can, it's some strange issue that may only be fixed by a full on reinstall of game files.

So it seems it was fixed by closing the game with the X in the corner as opposed to going through quit game.

And @beastedot9 was the one that suggested that too me, seems to have worked.  This was after reinstalling and still having save issues, but I was able to copy over back my old install and my old save and everything went back to normal save wise.  Like I said to beasted, I lost Sun & Mon but at least I didn't have to reinstall anything

I'm having the same problem, and could you tell me exactly what you did to fix the issue? @pozzum

Played the game in Windowed Mode, Closed the game with the X in the corner instead of Quitting the game normally.

i play it in windowed and that is how i closed it. hmm. it has been doing it since my game crashed yesterday.

[pozzum]

I also Ended up like reinstalling my game and removing and replacing my save over my troubleshooting process

[Carlzilla]

If this pops up again and your Steam folder is located in your C:\Program Files (x86)\ OR C:\Program Files\ folder...move Steam to a non-UAC folder. The game can not be started with administrator rights, so I believe that Windows flips out sporadically and disables WWE2k15's ability to write to the save folder, which, if your copy of Steam is installed in the default location, is access protected to admin level programs or higher.

This just happened to me, with a save that previously worked fine, and I simply moved the Steam folder out of the Program Files folder following the steps for moving a steam installation which can be found here:

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUBN-8129

and everything worked fine after that.

Edited July 25, 2015 by Carlzilla

[Carlzilla]

Never mind my last post, just happened again, so apparently that was just a coincidence that it fixed it last time. The game is just lousy with bugs that will never be fixed. Kinda disappointing.

[Carlzilla]

I have no idea what leads to the error that cause the game not to save, but I found a fool proof fix it seems, and I've worked the fix into my save swapper program...that way you can backup and restore your current save without loosing anything due to the bug. Because, strangely enough, it's not a file error or corruption in the save files themselves, despite that being what it seems like, your save is completely restorable with minimal effort. You'll know this error because if you try to download anything from Community Creations it'll tell you that the content is damaged.

If you're wondering what the details are, basically it has to do with the fact that the game uses the Steam API to save data to your \userdata\...\ folder, and for whatever reason that function gets corrupted. The solution is to REMOVE the entire \...\userdata\[USER ID]\240460\ folder from your machine and restart the game, forcing steam to recreate the directory. This has been working for users since the game launched, but it normally resulted in the loss of save data...with the Save Swapper, you don't have to lose anything when you apply the fix.

You can find the 'Fix Save Error' option in the tool drop down menu at the top of the program. It's pretty much automated, but you'll have to answer a question or two along the way.

Edited July 27, 2015 by Carlzilla