Mid playthrough of Mass Effect 1 - I get a sudden error message when trying to manually save:
"A problem occurred while saving the game. No game session data waf preserved. Please try again"
And it doesn't allow me to save anymore from that point forth.
What's even scarier is that all my manual saves disappear.
Pressing F5 to Quick Save gives me a message that it has saved, but the save does not appear in my save game menu.
For anyone who has a similar issue - I think I fixed it by:
1) Alt-tab out of the game
2) You should see Origin running
3) Go to the Origin settings and go to "Saves" and disable cloud saves
4) Go back to the game and click on "load save"
5) Make sure you have an autosave present
6) Quit the game and restart
7) You should now be able to save manually again AND if like me your save game previously disappeared, it should be back now.
The problem returned even with cloud saves turned off.
Community AdminHi, if you launch the game as administrator does that have an effect? It sounds like there might be a restriction in WIndows on the game writing to the C drive to create saves.
Hi - I can test it out late today but basically I'm seeing sporadic issues with save games.
Most of the time doing a manual save will work and then sometimes I get an error message and all of the sudden all my manual save games won't appear in the menu anymore while autosaves are still there.
Then if I restart the game the manual saves will reappear.
It sounds like a cloud save issue whereas I lose connection to the cloud server but like I mentioned Ive been seeing this behaviour even with cloud saves turned off.
So interestingly trying to run the game(s) - via Steam and the ME_Launcher in admin mode will result in the launcher not running at all.
So just to explain my setup here:
I bought the game on Steam.
Running ME:Legendary through Steam will open Origin and then opens the ME:Launcher.
What I've tried now is setting all binaries including the launcher to admin mode.
That resulted in Steam launching Origin but the ME:Launcher failed to load.
Then I tried disabling the admin mode on the ME:Launcher while retaining it on the ME1 binary which resulted in the ME:Launcher loading but not ME1.
Turning off admin mode on all binaries has everything working as usual.
Evening - I've had the same issue running ME1 from Origin.
When I've started the game I can save without issue - but after a while the error occurs. This also seems to affect the autosave function.
This seems to happen with or without admin permissions.
On restarting the game, the save functionality starts to work again. I've repaired the game, and installed the latest patch but the issue remains.
The save game folder has no permission restrictions, but that still wouldn't explain why it works and then doesn't.............
It's pretty annoying having to replay the last several missions because you've forgotten to keep saving 😠
