Unable to Save (Miscellaneous Error)
I've been playing DA2 forever and a day now with no problems, but today I've hit this weird problem where I can't save. I've googled all over creation and haven't found any info.
The game loads all my saves just fine, so there doesn't appear to be any corruption. In fact, I didn't realize I had a save problem until I loaded a save, roamed around a couple of areas, and tried to do a manual save.
- If I try to save over an existing save, I get an error stating the save failed due to a "The save failed. A miscellaneous error occurred during the save process" with no further information provided.
- If I try to create a new save, nothing happens - not even an error. I don't even notice creating a new save failed until I go look for it in the load menu, and it's nowhere to be found.
- I thought perhaps I have too many saves, so I tried to delete an old save, but that failed too. No error, no nothing - I just click the delete button and nothing happens.
This is on Windows 10, has previously been consistently working with no issues. I have plenty of disk space and I can my save folders just fine (so doesn't appear to be a sudden permissions issue). I have 3 autosaves and 25 slots used.
It was working as recently as a couple of days ago, and no changes have been made since then.
Solved! Ironically, I created this post after researching and testing everything under the sun, then right after this post, I figure it out. Figures. 🙂
I'm going to share here in case someone else ever hits this problem.
BitDefender Ransomware Protection flagged DA2 as ransomware all of a sudden. I usually get a pop-up notification when that happens, but this time it was blocked quietly in the background. Once I spotted that, I added DA2 to trusted applications, and bam, I can save again.
