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Hibiscus

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Sep 28, 2018
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  • Crusader Kings II
  • Pillars of Eternity
  • Tyranny: Archon Edition
  • Tyranny - Tales from the Tiers
  • Tyranny - Bastards Wound
  • Crusader Kings III
Hi everyone, FTP here.

This is my first playthrough of Tyranny. I recently was forced to physically shutdown my laptop (via the power switch) due to the PC freezing; Tyranny was open at this time (I was on my third ally recruitment mission, the Burning library, having just acquired the Silent Archive). I shutdown the PC for the night; the next day, I went to play Tyranny (which had never given me ANY grief before then), loaded the game, and the screen had load and continue both greyed out. I checked the save file area under the users, save file was there. I followed the instructions on deleting the local appdata zip file, which had apparently worked for some. It didn't work for me. I verified the game files in Steam, didn't work. I uninstalled and reinstalled the game, didn't work. The game IS whitelisted with Windows Defender. I tried making a new file and loading the old one from there, nothing. I only have one save file. I have the game enabled to run in administrator mode.

This issue has never occurred to me until the forced shutdown, which I believe has caused the issue (doing so with a few other games, such as Throne of Lies, has forced me to reinstall those games). Is there anything else I can do besides starting a brand new save file?
 
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Almost certainly that save file was corrupted by the freeze/crash; perhaps it was in the middle of writing the save out when that happened.

If so I'm afraid there is no possible recovery other than going back to an earlier save file.

I am very sorry that happened to you!
 
Almost certainly that save file was corrupted by the freeze/crash; perhaps it was in the middle of writing the save out when that happened.

If so I'm afraid there is no possible recovery other than going back to an earlier save file.

I am very sorry that happened to you!

That's no problem, just wanted to verify that it was donezo before restarting.