Save corrupted - A925C8C5-A2E25EEF-652B47E9
My save data today 20.01.2024 got corrupted again. This happened for the third time already. This only happens in quick play solo mode. Acording to this topic https://answers.ea.com/t5/Technical-Iss...
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When the file first became corrupted on new profile 22.01.2024, then I received this message several times a day while playing quick play solo. So far, the method I described above worked and I was able to bypass the problem. Until today. While playing the championship, I was unable to save my progress because a message about a corrupted file kept appearing. I went through the loading screen several times and it was the same every time. So I left the championship without saving, then I went through a few time trials. Luckily, by some miracle, my liveries weren't wiped clean, but I'm not going back to quick play mode until it's definitely fixed. Im play with EA app, PC Win10.
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1. I also saw that the autosave file does not work from January 21, i.e. it does not update anywhere and the last date is January 21 before the first file corruption message appears (see attach). Maybe the problem lies somewhere in the lack of synchronization between the autosave and save files
2. The first message about file corruption always appears after crossing several countries in the created championship. Then it appears regularly several times a day (when I used the above workaround method). Maybe the problem lies in the size of the championship. I always create 16 countries and 12 stages. There is too many info to save or something.
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is this forum dead and no one comes here to see what bugs people report?
EA/Codemasters, do you even know about this? I wrote several times, but no one even replied that the problem was known. I am writing here with myself because I want to draw strong attention to this and document all my observations. I hope this makes it somewhat easier to find this error. So far it only appears in quick play solo mode and I haven't noticed it anywhere else
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EA_Groguet
Community Manager
Community ManagerHey there,
I have reported and escalated this issue to the Game Team. Hopefully, I have some info soon to share with you.
Thank you for your patience and sorry for the inconvenience.
-Groguet
- @EA_Groguet thx for the reply. I hope your team can find the cause of the problem soon. One of the better parts of this game is currently unplayable because of this issue with corrupted save.
- EA_Groguet
Hey everyone,
The Game Team is investigating this issue and they were requesting some save files from your corrupted games to keep the investigation. Could you please attach your save file here on AHQ?
You might find it in: %localappdata%/WRC/Savegame/Profile
- Direct attachment (only for text files)
- You can attach a text file directly to a forum post.
- Upload with a OneDrive account
- How to upload files to OneDrive: LINK
- How to share files from OneDrive: LINK
- Please set the file(s) to be shared for anyone that has access to your OneDrive link
- The resulting file download URL can be included in a forum post, private message, etc.
- Upload with a Google Drive account
-Groguet
@EA_GroguetHi,
here you can find all data from Profile:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1J6VHALJr-lyEo-OaLzRUyIfDDfC_58_f?usp=sharing
i recorded short video where i show the "error" and a solution as not to wiped out own data (template, liveries, etc).The solution was also described here:
I described the details and my observations in this topic above. If you need additional information, then I'm happy to help. After the last file corruption, now the error appeared already on the second stage, when i continue my championship.
PS>
In the video I also showed how to do it so as not to lose your data (from 2:12). Just u have to do is go through any part of the game that has a loading screen. Then save working again. Otherwise when you exit the game after message about save corrupted, after restarting, you will have to create your profile again and you will lose your data
- EA_Groguet
@ojciecmajster Thanks for sharing with us the save file and the video! I have already shared this with the rest of the team.
- EA_Groguet
@EA_Groguet wrote:
Hey everyone,
The Game Team is investigating this issue and they were requesting some save files from your corrupted games to keep the investigation. Could you please attach your save file here on AHQ?
You might find it in: %localappdata%/WRC/Savegame/Profile
- Direct attachment (only for text files)
- You can attach a text file directly to a forum post.
- Upload with a OneDrive account
- How to upload files to OneDrive: LINK
- How to share files from OneDrive: LINK
- Please set the file(s) to be shared for anyone that has access to your OneDrive link
- The resulting file download URL can be included in a forum post, private message, etc.
- Upload with a Google Drive account
-Groguet
Hey there,
In the past, I requested some save files to help the team with the investigation. We didn't have many files uploaded, so the team doesn't have enough data to investigate this issue. Please, upload your save files so I can send them to the Game Team.
Thank you.
-Groguet
Hi,
in the topic above, I sent some links to the profiles where the save was corrupted in different car groups.
Here You can find my links too:
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23.02.2024
After 6 from 16 country in GroupA save became corrupted.
link for profil file from groupA
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1O59G2JTTqYh27NWR8dkKhQJ7rlFOa1Zw?usp=drive_link
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29.02.2024
After 12 from 16 country in Group WRC 2 save became corrupted
link for profil file from group WRC2
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1hc3R_sItriTlen8Kn7EbQhbgXWFexToL?usp=sharing
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07.03.2024
I finished own championship in Quick Play solo mode in a group Junior WRC without damaged save file. Link to my profil file from group Junior WRC:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1T4qQ2GbGxXLlfzSGsLB7s9SgqdcJd1zJ?usp=sharing
It's bad to hear that until now Codemasters has not touched the issue at all and is still waiting for more data ☹️ Codemasters programmers don't have the tools to decode the digits in the error message? Someone designed it this way, so the information about the error code should give some clues. I browse this forum every day and I looking forward to any positive response. I'm losing hope that this will ever be fixed. I will be happy to colaborate with team if additional information is needed, do some test or answer questions.
btw. examining only the save file may not be effective as this is the last state where the game was working properly (when information about a save corruption appears, the file cannot be saved). You need to load the save file and continue driving (usually several routes) until you receive a message about a corrupt save file.
I saw on the forum that Xbox users have the same problem. If anyone could send save file, that would be great. I also saw reports of save corruption on the Steam forum.
Someone from Codemasters team can also check this by setting the 16 country and 12 stages championships in the 97-11 group in Quick Play Solo mode (using Citroen Xsara all the time) and investigate this issue. I have been researching it for months in my own way, looking for similarities or correlations, so far i didnt find any solution.
And what about this topic? The issue looks very similar to the one described in this post
This should be fixed in the December patch, but I didn't find any information about it in the changelog. Maybe it wasn't fixed properly.
PS.
for now, please send me my observations that I wrote above to the team. Maybe they'll be helpful. Save files are unusually designed and I have never encountered where the game automatically wrote my own save file instead of using autosave file. After the Junior WRC championship ended, my save file simply disappeared from the list.
