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Hi, I'm sorry for the delay. I will try to elaborate using better and more clear language. I don't have my Windows 11 machine anymore so I can't take pictures, sadly.

Short explanation: OneDrive auto-syncs all documents in My Documents folder (for me). I then disabled OneDrive, which broke the sync, and made my Warband saves inaccessible. To fix it, I saved the Warband save games folder to my machine locally and disabled OneDrive entirely.

Long explanation: My problem (and I assume a few others) stem from Onedrive syncing all the data in the Documents folder to the OneDrive cloud. This includes the save game data. When OneDrive was enabled, MB Warband played perfectly fine. At one point, I disabled Onedrive from my startup sequence to save computer resources and keep my background tasks to a minimum. Doing this, however, made my savegame files inaccessible due to a syncing error.

I realized the issue once I re-enable OneDrive and it synced all of my files again. Magically, Warband worked and my saves were available. The next step for me was to disable OneDrive completely save all files locally.

The alternative to disabling OneDrive completely is that you navigate to your save games folder, default being C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents\My Games, right click on the Warband save folders, and force it to save to the local machine instead of OneDrive. If memory serves, when I right clicked the folders there was an option to save the folders to the local machine. It is also possible that I had to navigate to the Properties, but my memory isn't that sharp.

Since I can't show you exactly that sequence as I don't have Win11 anymore, here are three links with the closest approximation of what I did.



Does this post make more sense to you? I hope I was clear enough. I realize I can be a bit vague in explaining, and wish I could record a fix video. This may not be what others experience, but I would bet that it might help a few people.

If this is still too vague, just leave me for dead.

Hey Bigdabill7, I can help you.

To summarize, OneDrive (when you activate it) default saves files to the cloud. That means even the save game files in the "My Games" folder. For me, I almost always disable OneDrive because it is an extra drain on resources I don't need, but when I do that then it cuts off my access to the cloud. You see, the annoying thing is that once OneDrive has auto-saved your data to the cloud, then you need to be connected to the cloud to access it because it pulls it off your machine to save space.
My solution is this:
1. Make sure that OneDrive is on, first of all, and that your files are indeed accessible.
2. Right click on the save game files, and any other files you want to access while offline or not connected, and choose to "save to the machine." I don't remember if that is the exact terminology, but it is something like that.
3. Enjoy Mount and Blade again!

I scratched my head for months trying to figure it out, but I finally had a flash of insight one day when it magically worked (I was stoked), I turned off OneDrive, and then it went back to not working, much to my puzzled disappointment.

Here are a couple links which might help you understand more:


I hope this helps for you!

Your issue sounds similar to mine, so I will copy and paste from another forum post what worked for me.

BLUF: I believe this problem is caused by OneDrive and the solution lies in making sure the savegame and user profile data is saved on the local device.

Details: I've finally cracked this code (for me, anyway). I had this exact same issue, and found someone who recommended to re-install Windows 11. I did, and it worked, but only for a short time before it went back to the same exact issues - no window, no program, just hung in the launching sequence. Then I tried finagling with my savegame files and user profile data, deleting both, and lo and behold it worked again, just in time for it not to work again.

It occurred to me later in a flash that the only difference was me turning onedrive off and on. Essentially, the savegame and profiles were being saved in the cloud, but when I shut off onedrive and removed it from my startup sequence, then the data was trapped in the cloud while still having a semi-valid filepath. Thusly, MB would launch but then get stuck when there was no data to pull from.

I right-clicked the files/data and chose to save to local machine and it's worked flawlessly since then.

I really hope this easy solution helps the community! I've seen a huge rash of these problems which had the same exacty symptoms as mine, but with no real solution.

Hello all!
BLUF: I believe this problem is caused by OneDrive and the solution lies in making sure the savegame and user profile data is saved on the local device.

Details: I've finally cracked this code (for me, anyway). I had this exact same issue, and found someone who recommended to re-install Windows 11. I did, and it worked, but only for a short time before it went back to the same exact issues - no window, no program, just hung in the launching sequence. Then I tried finagling with my savegame files and user profile data, deleting both, and lo and behold it worked again, just in time for it not to work again.

It occurred to me later in a flash that the only difference was me turning onedrive off and on. Essentially, the savegame and profiles were being saved in the cloud, but when I shut off onedrive and removed it from my startup sequence, then the data was trapped in the cloud while still having a semi-valid filepath. Thusly, MB would launch but then get stuck when there was no data to pull from.

I right-clicked the files/data and chose to save to local machine and it's worked flawlessly since then.

I really hope this easy solution helps the community! I've seen a huge rash of these problems which had the same exacty symptoms as mine, but with no real solution.