Lost Savegames

[Flumpi]

I just started with split vendetta and already spent a couple of hours playing my new save.
Yesterday evening the game crashed for any reason and i decided to go to bed.
Now i jsut wanted to play again and i notice that my savegames are lost. The latest savegame is from 14.03.2020. They are pretty much allgined to the savesgames i see in the steamcloud.
I guess that the steam synchronisation did not work for some reason and now it synchronised my old saves to my system.

Is there any way to restore my local saves again?

Thanks in advance
Flumpi

[Alan Phipps]

A crash will not have deleted saves from Your Documents, they will still be there. What is more likely is that the crash has corrupted your game installation and it is no longer recognised as 3.00 and so your 3.00 saves are being ignored. Verify the Steam X4 game installation and see if that helps, if not you may have to do a clean uninstall and reinstall of the game files. Good luck.

You can check your saves are physically there yourself. Drive:\Users\Your Name\Documents\Egosoft\X4\**Steam ID**\save

[Flumpi]

I acatualy already checked Drive:\Users\Your Name\Documents\Egosoft\X4\**Steam ID**\save for my savegames.
They are all from mid of march...
Im going to check the corrupgame installation

[Alan Phipps]

Obvious question, but did you make any saves since?

I ask because if your 3.00 installation was corrupt from the start, the saves may have been corrupt and so replaced by Steam Cloud with old ones. In that case you may be best starting afresh in 3.0 or playing on from a pre-3.0 beta save. That could also explain your crash.

[Flumpi]

I did a fresh split start. But i ust confess i only used autosaves since then.

[Alan Phipps]

The last autosave should be there unless replaced by the cloud because they were showing as invalid.

When playing after a major update, DLC or mod, I tend to turn cloud backup off for a while.

[Flumpi]

The very Last Autosave that got restored is from my "actual" save game ... i did it 3minutes after the split start as i got picked up by that jaguar scout...

[Alan Phipps]

That sounds like that was your last valid save then.

You know that you can set autosave frequency in-game?

[Flumpi]

sure i know. It is set to 30min. The game saved regulary. the past day i restartet my pc and the x4 applciation serveral times and everytime the maybe non valid saves were load succesfully ... thats realy strange

[Alan Phipps]

I would reinstall the game and make a fresh start if that doesn't lose you too much. Clearly something went very wrong in your early 3.0 play.

You didn't install any mods did you?

[Flumpi]

if there is no way to restore those savegame i will probaply do it. But it feels so stupid too lose those 20h i already spent :/

[Alan Phipps]

Yes, it's a pain. Still, use a few of those other save slots as insurance. They don't get overwritten by new autosaves.

[CBJ]

Steam have now acknowledged that there was a problem at their end with this, and are in the process of rolling out a fix.

[Assailer]

Same happened to me, lost all today's progress, and it was synced back to yesterday.

This hasn't happened before, this is new. Now, i'm taking backups before exiting the game until this gets fixed.