Battlefield 1 forces new game at launch
Greetings people. I have come across a very irritating problem with my installation of Battlefield 1. It appears the game fails to save any campaign progress whenever I quit or fails to load progress when launched. This is what I am experiencing. when the game launches on origin, it checks for cloud saves then I am greeted with a with a window the game shares player data and the save feature is automatic, then comes the brightness slider and audio selection, then the whole cutscene first-time players see when put into the battle. I try to ignore it but it is becoming very tedious to have to play the intro for 10 minutes everytime I launch the game just so I can play multiplayer.
I'll try to make changes to the game, load the game, play the intro for 10 mins, quit the game, cross my fingers hoping the game actually saved, load it up, greeted with the brightness slider and audio settings again..... then the whole intro again. I'm sure you can imagine I am pulling my hair at this point.
I have spoken with EA support on this and the only solution they have given me is to uninstall origin, clear all of the registry associated with it and the ProgramData folders. Reinstalled origin and the issue persists. I have used my Google Fu and I can't seem to find anyone else having this issue. I fear I may have to do a clean install of windows to solve this issue but the funny thing is my progress from other games such as Need For Speed continue from where I left off, so there is hope.
Ok I have found a fix and it isn't pretty. After struggling a couple weeks dealing with this issue and finding other players having the same issue I have come up with this solution. By making another windows account on the same PC it had eliminated the issue. I have multiple hard drives including an SSD. The way I like to configure my PC is to route my USER files into my "Spare HDDs". The Battlefield 1 save is designed to be saved into the Documents folder ("My Documents" for windows 7 and prior). I have tried changing the locations for the document folders and run the game and client in administrator mode and never came up with a success. Then I decided to make a WindowsTemporary "Test" account and then launched BF1 with the cloud save that was made when this whole debacle began. After achieving this I have decided to route my document folders again into the HDDs, installed the client and moved everything from the former USER account to the new one (this was a risky task). After confidently moving everything over into the new account with familiar location settings, the game now runs like it should be!! If anyone else is having this expeirince I hope you find a better solution to all of this but for now this is functional and I am pretty happy with it.
