Can't continue the game

No trouble at all.

You can’t do it in game, You have to go the map “C:\Users\your-user-name\Documents\Avalanche Studios\generationZero” and copy the save map to another location.

I always copy a game-save before missions and always after I finished something that I did not want to lose the progress of. I made a shortcut on my desktop for quick access the the save map. When I shut down the game I shut down to menu first, because the game is saved then. Then I quit the game.

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Sorry for the delay I was trying again with your idea and from someone on Steam idea but still it doesn’t seem to work.

What I notice though is that the game save file on C: stays at 01/072022 18:43 (yesterday) and it doesn’t update itself same goes with the copy paste I did for my secondary hard drive, doesn’t update.

Maybe that is the reason, that the save is broken? I will try a fresh re-install of the whole game if that would help.

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You post is kinda scary for me too, as I play solo on Steam too. I alway thought that staying away from multiplayer and modding programs would saveguard me against this kind of save-file corruption or save-file deletion, and loosing all my progress.

Upto now I experience those corruption problems that people sometimes have, only from reading. Anyway, I hope that you’d be able to play the game again starting a new game. And now with making regular backups. :coffee:

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Are you logged as an admin on your PC?
Check if your save file is set to read only by any way.

By the way, this is how save folder should look like:


If you have any other files there - delete them (steam_autocloud.vdf for example, I don’t have this file anywhere)

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:thinking: 0L0, I also have that .vdf file, it’s only 1 Kb.

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I never had those files from the day I downloaded the game, only file I have is the steam cloud.

I will check it again at a later time because I will try to re-download it after clearing the game from Steam.

Yeah those two files I don’t have, only the steam_autocloud.vdf I have.

Will see how it goes after I re-download the whole game

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Maybe it’s because I never used Steam :cloud:

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Yeah, that will keep it from appearing in the map. You back-up manually too then?

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Unfortunately it didn’t work :cry:

After redownloading and playing the game for a good amount of time, IT STILL CAN’T SAVE. Now there isn’t any file on my main hard drive C: as it was before (so no save files) it is only the file on my second hard drive where I have downloaded Steam platform :disappointed: :-1:

I hope some developers have a look at it and help me out or else I have to return it because is not enjoyable the way it is now even if I truly like this game a lot and it is sad that it is broken :frowning:

Anyway, I truly appreciate all of your help on this issue (first time happening for me on such good game) and thank you for trying to help me out.

Dear Developers please help out on this matter as soon as possible because I like your game and I don’t want to return it back to Steam if there is a solution that you can fix it from your end.

I have posted above all the info I can think of but if you need anything else please ask.

Have you maybe activated the write protection of the save folder? This prevents writing to the folder and thus saving the game status.

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Before redownloading the game yesterday night to see if it fixes the problem, the write protection box was unticked as I can remember but now I can’t check it again because after redownloading the game, there isn’t any save file not even in my C: (main hard drive) nor my E: (secondary hard drive), I even tried to search it if in case it went on hidden files but no luck. Truly I can’t think of anything else, I will try though one idea that some told me on Steam game’s forum (to add the “Steam.dll” in the game file) and see if that works.

Because this is probably a technical/bug issue, I think it’s best you do a request for support here Because you should have a save file on C:

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Thank you I already message them, hopefully there is a development fix on this issue.

Appreciate it :+1:

An update: Someone from Steam told me to copy-paste the steam.dll in the game’s file (there wasn’t any steam.dll in the game file) and now the game works amazing, it can save now :slightly_smiling_face: :+1:

Truly thank you all for trying to help me out, I truly appreciate it :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: :+1:

p.s Developers do please add this info so that anyone with similar issues can find it and be helped :slightly_smiling_face:

So where did you get the steam.dll and what is the location you placed it?

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Oh I got it from my E: hard drive where I have my Steam platform downloaded and all Steam files are located (and the games).

Windows 10:

I placed it into my E: > STEAM > steamapps > common > GenerationZero

in there it was only one file from Steam: steam_api64.dll

and when I copy-paste the Steam.dll (as I mentioned above), the game works amazing now, I am able to continue my game :slight_smile:

Ok Thanks, cool this workaround works for you. I checked on my end And I also haven’t got a steam.dll in the common/generationZero location. But my game-saves are still there.

So I guess the problem was caused by the moving to the other drive. Did you do this manually, that might cause the problem. I also changed the game-drive a few years back, but I did it in the steam manager/settings.

Enjoy the game, and make manual saves, just to be sure. I have made over 300 now. I number each save to keep track. Most of them I deleted of course. :coffee:

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Oh if you mean the Steam platform file with it is games, no. I had it there from the first time I download Steam platform to have better work on my PC so I just only copy-paste the Steam.dll into “GenerationZero” file that was missing. (if that is what you mean?!?)

Seriously strange though that even if in your end you don’t have that Steam.dll file, for you the game works just fine but for me I had to copy-paste that file :thinking:

Thank you, I will enjoy it as it is a great game :slight_smile: and yeah will keep an on the saves as now I see the “Avalanche Studios” back on my C: now and with the appropriate files to make it work, truly strange :thinking: :thinking: :thinking:

Appreciated it :+1:
:coffee: or :beers: