Confirmed CK III - Ironman Game Progress Not Saving

[Cakes1517]

Short summary of your issue Ironman Game Progress Not Saving

Game Version 1.0.2

What OS are you playing on?
Windows

What platform are you using?
Windows Store

Do you have mods enabled? No

Have you tried verifying your game files (Steam only)?
(DID NOT ANSWER QUESTION)

How much "pain" is this causing you?
9

Please explain the issue you experienced in the most condensed way possible
At a certain point, I saved and quit to desktop (A). I resumed playing some time later, and when I had finished, did the same (B). When returning once more, I found that all the progress since (A) had not been saved. I then proceeded to play again, and saved and quit to the main menu (C), but found that all the progress in that time had also been lost, and was reverted back to (A).

Please explain how to reproduce the issue
Unknown

Is there anything else you think could help us identify/replicate the issue?
My auto save option is a grey shield with a question mark with the 1066 start date (my game hasn't even reached 1066 yet).

 

[Richy59]

Just to add that this is now happening to me as well, Game Pass on PC with Ironman and Cloud Saves.

Has happened twice now, didn't think much of it the first time but I just put in a good few hours and changed a lot of my game in a positive way, quit and saved. When I loaded up the game launcher I usually just click 'Resume' and I even hovered over the resume button to check the King name and save date. All was correct and as expected. Once the game loaded I am way back to and old save with my previous King, same stage as the previous revert. I quit and went to load game again and the 'Resume' button matches the old save file, previous King and showing this evening as the save time.

Hesitant to keep going with it now, but I don't want to start a new game as I'll lose all this progress.

 

[lucik5669]

I am experiencing the same issue while on Game Pass on PC using Cloud Saves for Ironman games. I play to a point where it just doesn't save even though the autosave feature is running on the game. When I quit the game it reverts back allll the progress I made while playing from the latest Cloud Save. Honestly if this doesn't get fixed, what is the point of playing Ironman and getting achievements?


**Troubleshooting Methods I took but still could not resolve the issue:
1. Reinstalled the game - didn't work
2. Uninstalled game, logged out of all instances of Xbox Live and Microsoft Accounts from main PC and other devices then reinstalled game - didn't work
3. Played the Steam Version for 1.5 hours (then returned the game) when the saves don't work on that platform either - didn't work
4. Disabled Xbox App and used only Microsoft Store version - didn't work



I would like to put out there the process to convert a Cloud Save to CK3 local save which the workaround was found on reddit: Kudos to "ChineseDelivery"

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrusaderKings/comments/itpgei

"Gonna add to this, just managed to get my Xbox cloud save added to steam. Lost about 8 hours of save progress because Microsoft apparently can't design a reliable cloud save system for shit. Fortunately I was able to retrieve the older version that was saved.

The saves for xbox are saved within the wgs folder in your "user/Appdata/Local/Packages/ ParadoxInteractive.ProjectTitus_zfnrdv2de78ny /SystemAppData/wgs".

Within the wgs folder is a bunch of randomly named & numbered folders, each with another randomly named file and a "container.1" file. The file you want is the randomly named one.

What I was able to do was:

• Make a copy of that randomly named file (that I knew was the save I wanted)
• Paste it into steam's remote save folder for CK3
• At first it did not register to the game in steam, but I was able to get it to work by making a new save game in steam (probably best to do this as the same dynasty for consistency's sake) then exiting the game.
• Then delete the new steam save, or move it or w/e.
• Then finally rename the "wgs" save file to the new steam save game's name, with the extension .ck3

Worked well for me and saved my 20+ hr playthrough. Anyone who finds this can feel free to message me if I was at all unclear with my process, I'd be happy to help."

I was able to get my ironman save at least.


Where are the devs?

 

[Thorvarg]

I personally only use the local saves and make a backup in my private cloud. For me this is simply the best way to backup my current game score. I have never had any problems with it.

 

[Richy59]

I am experiencing the same issue while on Game Pass on PC using Cloud Saves for Ironman games. I play to a point where it just doesn't save even though the autosave feature is running on the game. When I quit the game it reverts back allll the progress I made while playing from the latest Cloud Save. Honestly if this doesn't get fixed, what is the point of playing Ironman and getting achievements?


**Troubleshooting Methods I took but still could not resolve the issue:
1. Reinstalled the game - didn't work
2. Uninstalled game, logged out of all instances of Xbox Live and Microsoft Accounts from main PC and other devices then reinstalled game - didn't work
3. Played the Steam Version for 1.5 hours (then returned the game) when the saves don't work on that platform either - didn't work
4. Disabled Xbox App and used only Microsoft Store version - didn't work



I would like to put out there the process to convert a Cloud Save to CK3 local save which the workaround was found on reddit: Kudos to "ChineseDelivery"

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrusaderKings/comments/itpgei

"Gonna add to this, just managed to get my Xbox cloud save added to steam. Lost about 8 hours of save progress because Microsoft apparently can't design a reliable cloud save system for shit. Fortunately I was able to retrieve the older version that was saved.

The saves for xbox are saved within the wgs folder in your "user/Appdata/Local/Packages/ ParadoxInteractive.ProjectTitus_zfnrdv2de78ny /SystemAppData/wgs".

Within the wgs folder is a bunch of randomly named & numbered folders, each with another randomly named file and a "container.1" file. The file you want is the randomly named one.

What I was able to do was:

• Make a copy of that randomly named file (that I knew was the save I wanted)
• Paste it into steam's remote save folder for CK3
• At first it did not register to the game in steam, but I was able to get it to work by making a new save game in steam (probably best to do this as the same dynasty for consistency's sake) then exiting the game.
• Then delete the new steam save, or move it or w/e.
• Then finally rename the "wgs" save file to the new steam save game's name, with the extension .ck3

Worked well for me and saved my 20+ hr playthrough. Anyone who finds this can feel free to message me if I was at all unclear with my process, I'd be happy to help."

I was able to get my ironman save at least.


Where are the devs?

Thanks, I'm going to give this a go and see if I can recover a hard copy of my cloud save. At least then I can move on from it and know that I have the data there if I'm ever able to recover it. I won't be playing on steam and sticking with MS Game Pass, so hopefully I can use it again at some stage.

I didn't even need to play with cloud saves on as I only will ever play on one machine, so annoyed that itsthe cloud that's causing the issue. Lesson learned, no more ckoud saves when playing Ironman.

 

[Anonononomous]

This is happening to me, too. I'm playing version 1.1.3 from Game Pass. When I click the Resume button from the launcher, it tells me that it was saved at the time I exited, but it loads an old save. Not great. I've won the same wars three times now and no progress gets saved.

 

[Swiffe]

If a developer comes by and could give some insights about the resolution of this issue, it would be much appreciated by ... a lot of people

As I stopped my xbox game pass, I'm waiting for 2 months now to buy this game. I just need some updates about this issue ...

 

[Blofeld2000]

I am experiencing the same issue while on Game Pass on PC using Cloud Saves for Ironman games. I play to a point where it just doesn't save even though the autosave feature is running on the game. When I quit the game it reverts back allll the progress I made while playing from the latest Cloud Save. Honestly if this doesn't get fixed, what is the point of playing Ironman and getting achievements?


**Troubleshooting Methods I took but still could not resolve the issue:
1. Reinstalled the game - didn't work
2. Uninstalled game, logged out of all instances of Xbox Live and Microsoft Accounts from main PC and other devices then reinstalled game - didn't work
3. Played the Steam Version for 1.5 hours (then returned the game) when the saves don't work on that platform either - didn't work
4. Disabled Xbox App and used only Microsoft Store version - didn't work



I would like to put out there the process to convert a Cloud Save to CK3 local save which the workaround was found on reddit: Kudos to "ChineseDelivery"

https://www.reddit.com/r/CrusaderKings/comments/itpgei

"Gonna add to this, just managed to get my Xbox cloud save added to steam. Lost about 8 hours of save progress because Microsoft apparently can't design a reliable cloud save system for shit. Fortunately I was able to retrieve the older version that was saved.

The saves for xbox are saved within the wgs folder in your "user/Appdata/Local/Packages/ ParadoxInteractive.ProjectTitus_zfnrdv2de78ny /SystemAppData/wgs".

Within the wgs folder is a bunch of randomly named & numbered folders, each with another randomly named file and a "container.1" file. The file you want is the randomly named one.

What I was able to do was:

• Make a copy of that randomly named file (that I knew was the save I wanted)
• Paste it into steam's remote save folder for CK3
• At first it did not register to the game in steam, but I was able to get it to work by making a new save game in steam (probably best to do this as the same dynasty for consistency's sake) then exiting the game.
• Then delete the new steam save, or move it or w/e.
• Then finally rename the "wgs" save file to the new steam save game's name, with the extension .ck3

Worked well for me and saved my 20+ hr playthrough. Anyone who finds this can feel free to message me if I was at all unclear with my process, I'd be happy to help."

I was able to get my ironman save at least.


Where are the devs?

Thank you lucik5669!

I was running a ironman game saving to cloud and didn't want to exit because I couldn't see that it was saving as it should. What I did was to locate the latest save file at the steam remote folder and copy it to the ck3 save folder under user my documents. It then showed up under Load in the game.

This really needs to be fixed, I hope this is in the bug part of the forum.

 

[Blofeld2000]

Now no autosaves are done, so the autosave functionality on ironman is broken.

 

[Freeminder]

Happened to me twice now. Lost hours and hours into my Wessex/England game. Not sure if the game is playable if you're just going to lose all your progress.

 

[dedrayn]

This happened to me twice now, xbox game pass, ironman, cloud save. Many hours of progress lost. Ridiculous.

 

[Blofeld2000]

Summary: CK3 - Functionality - Autosave broken on Ironman

Game Version: Chevron (1.1.3) (e374)

Operating System: Windows

Platform: PC

Mods: No mods

Pain threshold: Serious!

Description: The game does not autosave the game when running a game on Ironman, regardless of Autosave interval and if the cloud icon is checked on game start or not.

Reproduction: Start a game on Ironman with default rules and no mods on year 867. Run game for several months. No autosave is done.

No save/screenshot is available due to the nature of the bug.

 

[Danielarm]

Still an issue 09/12/20.

Xbox game pass, ironman save not updating.

 

[Blofeld2000]

Yes, not fixed in the latest patch.

 

[xDarkReign]

Short summary of your issue Ironman Game Progress Not Saving

Game Version 1.2.2

What OS are you playing on?
Windows

What platform are you using?
Steam

Do you have mods enabled? No

Have you tried verifying your game files (Steam only)?
Yes

How much "pain" is this causing you?
Odd question, but this bug stops me from playing your game



This issue is starting to really grate on me. I play CK3 on 3 different machines. My ironman cloud save NEVER updates to the latest and greatest save. The cloud version is always years behind.

Shouldn't the auto-save feature every in-game month re-upload a new save file to the cloud? I thought that was what that was for? It would *seem* when you exit the game, you cannot immediately shut your computer down, as the game is still uploading? I have no idea, but this is really tiresome.

 

[Swiffe]

I see no one has been complaining about this issue since December, does anyone know if it has been fixed ?

 

[mdltmariano]

I see no one has been complaining about this issue since December, does anyone know if it has been fixed ?

Is it still happening? I stopped playing the game last year, so I don't know if it was corrected (the version I play is on XPG-PC). But the suggestion someone made about making a copy of the save file used to work for me.

 

[shryn19]

I see no one has been complaining about this issue since December, does anyone know if it has been fixed ?

It randomly started working again for me a while ago, I don't think it was after a patch but hey, something happened!

 

[Swiffe]

It randomly started working again for me a while ago, I don't think it was after a patch but hey, something happened!

Thanks a lot for this feedback! Aren't you afraid the issue happens again?
I lost so many hours and so many achievements it created a big paranoia for me

I'm still hesitating to buy the game (as I no longer have the xbox game pass) and dive back into it, it's weird there was no communication yet from the dev team.

 

[Monkbel]

This is still an issue on 1.3.1. Specifically when I am offline (like on a plane), ironman progress does not save at all.

 

[Monkbel]

@jakeowaty unfortunately the workaround "try locally, since this is only an issue on cloud" doesn't work at all. If I copy my savegame from cloud folder into local saves folder, so it's not a cloud save anymore, and load it (while offline), the progress doesn't save at all. So it's a huge problem still on 1.3.1