Hi, I'm having a problem where my cities always corrupt when I try to play them the day after making them. It's pretty annoying and it means that I can't play the game properly, does anybody know a fix?
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well you could try the cloud save i think xbox has with CSL, this will avoid the HD, CSL saves are not small so dont use auto save with this feature
But in all my hours ive not had this 1, i commonly dont save after ending stream but thats on me
In my personal opinion, Its got to be your HD dude, consider a 2 Terra if it is HD, and that me assuming XBone OG, S or X.
Im also assuming you have been read writing the same 100 gig on a 500 gig drive
Which Xbox??? BTW there is a bug report section, and an xbox section, expect to get moved to there.
Also admin will help
But in all my hours ive not had this 1, i commonly dont save after ending stream but thats on me
In my personal opinion, Its got to be your HD dude, consider a 2 Terra if it is HD, and that me assuming XBone OG, S or X.
Im also assuming you have been read writing the same 100 gig on a 500 gig drive
Which Xbox??? BTW there is a bug report section, and an xbox section, expect to get moved to there.
Also admin will help
That's where we are ... !
I'm bringing this thread back to the top since my daughter has the same problem. She has the Xbox Series S and downloaded and played the game for a couple of hours. It saved just fine. The next time she loaded it, it said it was corrupt and wouldn't load.
I wanted to share for the benefit of anybody having this problem what we did for a workaround (and I say workaround since it doesn't actually fix the issue, it just moves it out of the way).
During testing, we found that a new game would also be corrupt a few minutes. If she played longer than that, every save file, even a new one, was corrupt. We followed the guidance and uninstalled and reinstalled the game, cleared the cache, etc. The problem persisted and we again noticed it happened after a few minutes.
So I started fiddling around with the saved games and noticed that there was an "autosave" file that kept get overwritten. That autosave was named for her very first city and it seemed the game was trying to load it instead of the save file she was selecting. On a hunch, we disabled autosave and the game saves just fine now, no matter how long she plays. It appears that the default is to autosave every 10 minutes and somehow, the rewriting over and over corrupts the autosave file. Turning auto-save off seems to get past it.
One thing I still don't understand. I'm more of a Playstation guy and on that platform, it is possible for me to discreetly manage local saves vs. cloud saves. For the life of me, I cannot find the ability to do that on Xbox. The reason I ask is because she was able to delete all of her corrupted manual saves by using the in-game interface. However, we did "uninstall all" on the game - twice - and every time we reinstall it, that original autosave file comes back. It appears the game is pulling it from the cloud and I can't find it any way to permanently get rid of it. It's also not deletable in-game - the "delete" option doesn't even appear.
In summary, here's what we did to work around the issue:
1. Uninstall the game completely.
2. Clear the cache by unplugging the box for a few minutes.
3. Reinstall the game.
4. Start the game and IMMEDIATELY disable auto saving (do NOT start a new city without disabling it first)
5. Enjoy the game but make sure to SAVE OFTEN because the game won't do it for you anymore.
I wanted to share for the benefit of anybody having this problem what we did for a workaround (and I say workaround since it doesn't actually fix the issue, it just moves it out of the way).
During testing, we found that a new game would also be corrupt a few minutes. If she played longer than that, every save file, even a new one, was corrupt. We followed the guidance and uninstalled and reinstalled the game, cleared the cache, etc. The problem persisted and we again noticed it happened after a few minutes.
So I started fiddling around with the saved games and noticed that there was an "autosave" file that kept get overwritten. That autosave was named for her very first city and it seemed the game was trying to load it instead of the save file she was selecting. On a hunch, we disabled autosave and the game saves just fine now, no matter how long she plays. It appears that the default is to autosave every 10 minutes and somehow, the rewriting over and over corrupts the autosave file. Turning auto-save off seems to get past it.
One thing I still don't understand. I'm more of a Playstation guy and on that platform, it is possible for me to discreetly manage local saves vs. cloud saves. For the life of me, I cannot find the ability to do that on Xbox. The reason I ask is because she was able to delete all of her corrupted manual saves by using the in-game interface. However, we did "uninstall all" on the game - twice - and every time we reinstall it, that original autosave file comes back. It appears the game is pulling it from the cloud and I can't find it any way to permanently get rid of it. It's also not deletable in-game - the "delete" option doesn't even appear.
In summary, here's what we did to work around the issue:
1. Uninstall the game completely.
2. Clear the cache by unplugging the box for a few minutes.
3. Reinstall the game.
4. Start the game and IMMEDIATELY disable auto saving (do NOT start a new city without disabling it first)
5. Enjoy the game but make sure to SAVE OFTEN because the game won't do it for you anymore.
Thank you for the very detailed exposition!
I’ve passed this all on to the developers via Paradox now.
I’ve passed this all on to the developers via Paradox now.
I play on Xbox Series S as well and I’m super disappointed in this game. I’ve had issues with saving since I downloaded it. I turned off auto save as suggested above and while it has resolved the “corrupt save” issue, I’m still having issues saving the game in general. Sometimes the game will let me save my progress, but what happens the majority of the time is that I will click to save and literally nothing happens. It says it’s saving on the top right of the screen, but then it doesn’t actually save my progress. It’s becoming super frustrating and at this point I don’t know why there’s even a console version of this game if saving doesn’t consistently work. I also opened a ticket but the support I got wasn’t very helpful.
I never tested manual saving like this to make sure it was actually saving. She was only saving at the end of a session and she hasn't played recently. I'll test it out when I get a chance and let you know if it happens to me too.