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TJHammer3
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2 days ago

Iron man save deleted after crash

Hello. I was 10 hours into an Iron Man campaign on the hardest difficulty setting. I had experienced a few of the full-computer-crashes that people have been seeing, specifically as it would transition between worlds (but not every time, and relaunching worked the first several times). After the latest one which was just after the mission where you fight the coil for the first time, I was unable to get back into the game, which would immediately reboot the whole PC upon reaching 3% at the shader compilation. 

I did all of the following:

  1. verified integrety of game files (did not work)
  2. installed latest NVIDIA game ready driver (did not work)
  3. Deleted all files that were not currently in use from these file paths:
    1. %LOCALAPPDATA%\NVIDIA\GLCache
    2. %LOCALAPPDATA%\NVIDIA\DXCache
  4. Restarted my computer
  5. Ran the game as administrator from the following path

    1. D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Star Wars Zero Company

The game then proceeded to recompile all of the shaders from scratch, taking a few minutes like it did the first time I launched the game. Upon loading in, the game was functional, but the "load" was greyed out.

I checked all locations I could think of for some kind of save backup, but was unable to find a game save anywhere. 

Pleeeease tell me there is a way to recover my save. This game is fantastic, shaping up to be one of my favorites, but i don't know that I have the fortitude to replay another 10 hours of iron man content due to a crash.

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    TJHammer3
    Seasoned Newcomer
    1 day ago

    I at least figured out why this is happening. I've been monitoring the actual save file behavior and it looks like the file will delete before it actually has a new save to overwrite it. For example, when finishing a mission, the save deletes before the transition cut scene and then doesn't create a new one until you're back on the ship, so if the game crashes between those two points after a mission any iron man saves are destroyed. Given the common crashes, this is probably a pretty high priority to address if you want iron man to be a part of your game (which I believe it should be).

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