Game Corrupted from Save Game Transfer Steam

I've been playing NFS HP Remastered for a while now. Trying to get through and get gold medals and everything. I purchased the remaster on Steam, so I run it through there.

I recently switched to a different computer. Everything was working fine when I installed it and began playing. I was a little sad that my remaster save from my old computer didn't transfer over. (Later I saw that cloud saves are an option in Origin that I could activate...).

Anyway, found a post about physically transferring save files from one computer to another. I had done it with other games before with success, so I tried it. Found it in Documents\Criterion Games. Copied it from the old computer. Pasted it in the same place in the new computer.....

Game won't start. The Steam launcher activates Origin just fine, and then the game itself doesn't boot. I tried launching it directly from the Origin client, and it didn't work there either.

I guessed there might be a config file somewhere that I overwrote accidentally, so I uninstalled and reinstalled the game. I didn't copy any of the save files over. I just wanted to start out vanilla. This also didn't work. In fact trying to start from the Origin client, Origin says that I don't seem to have the game installed.

I read a post on clearing Origin's cache. Did that with another reinstall. Same result. Ran repair on all of the C++ packages. Same result.

Interesting note is that it didn't rebuild the Documents\Criterion Games folder.

Since a reinstall won't work, and I have dug into a bit, I'm at a loss of what to do.

Again, it downloaded and ran perfectly before I tried moving over the save game file.... and of course this is the one time I didn't copy the original.

Any help would be appreciated.

Windows 10 Home x64

Ryzen 7 5800x

16 GB Ram

Nvidia 2080 Super