Savegame is broken --Because I don't own the DLC?--

[RobertJab]

Last night I was playing a Germanic Pagan game Ironman, everything was fine, I logged off for the night and went to sleep. I woke up today and when I wanted to launch CK2 I was asked to install it via Steam. I didn't think much of it because tons of times does Steam ask you to reinstall a game only to realise u already have it installed.

Upon launching CK2 I realised my save from last night was corrupted / or broken.
I then looked to the top of the 'Ironman Mode' symbol and saw this:

''This save was created with Random World enabled''
(I'd love to post the images of it but apparently image posting isn't allowed to new members..)
*Images at the bottom

As far as I'm aware this is a Holy Fury DLC feature. A DLC I don't actually own.


From what I can see I think that maybe the reinstall that Steam forced me into did something to it, my other saves were fine though. However I do find it weird because I don't remember picking any Random World feature at the start, and I did restart the game few times during my playtime yesterday and everything was fine.

So I guess final question is: Is there anyway that I can salvage this save and keep playing it?

 

[AndrewT]

As far as I'm aware this is a Holy Fury DLC feature. A DLC I don't actually own.

That is correct. Did you by any change play an MP game with a host who does have it though? I ask because there was a bug like that in HOI4 a while ago.

If not , I have no explanation for this happening to you. FYI Ironman games are encrypted and cannot be edited or rescued in any way.

But the Steam issue you mention is interesting; from what you say you get that reinstall message frequently, yet I don't believe I have ever seen it in over 10 years on Steam. Was this save local or Steam Cloud?


I suggest you do a clean reinstall of Steam and game:

- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-CK2
- exit the Steam app completely
- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/CK2 AND Documents/Paradox/CK2 folders
- delete everything in the Steam folder EXCEPT steam.exe and the SteamApps folder
- run steam.exe to rebuild all that
- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add ck2game.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.
- start the game with no mods active and test

That won't fix your existing save but maybe prevent it from happening again.


Sorry you had this problem, whatever the cause!