Need More Info Can Not Create Save Data

[Rodderick90]

Been playing M&B since the very first installment, put well over a thousand hours into warband, been playing Bannerlord for over 200 hours, why cant I save my game?
Its seems a pretty simple concept, you click on the Save button and your game should save.
Dont balance the game, dont improve performance, all these things are irrelevant if you cant SAVE YOUR FREAKING GAME IN THE FIRST PLACE, FIX IT!

 

[Horseman2]

Been playing M&B since the very first installment, put well over a thousand hours into warband, been playing Bannerlord for over 200 hours, why cant I save my game?
Its seems a pretty simple concept, you click on the Save button and your game should save.
Dont balance the game, dont improve performance, all these things are irrelevant if you cant SAVE YOUR FREAKING GAME IN THE FIRST PLACE, FIX IT!

After playing for many, many hours and saving games (auto save worked too), that all of a sudden I couldn't. Even auto save would fail.
I discovered that my anti-virus started identifying Bannerlord as a possible harmful program and was blocking it.
I had to go into my Windows 10 Security (that worked hand-in-hand with Norton) and disable the Windows 10 security.
Norton works fine still but not sure why Win10 Shield decided to block the game from writing to my disk.

 

[Rodderick90]

After playing for many, many hours and saving games (auto save worked too), that all of a sudden I couldn't. Even auto save would fail.
I discovered that my anti-virus started identifying Bannerlord as a possible harmful program and was blocking it.
I had to go into my Windows 10 Security (that worked hand-in-hand with Norton) and disable the Windows 10 security.
Norton works fine still but not sure why Win10 Shield decided to block the game from writing to my disk.

I found my windows security but how do I turn it off?

 

[greggho]

why cant I save my game?

Hey mate, can you take a quick look at your savegame file's size?
I've had this issue twice in separate playthroughs, in separate versions of the game (both modded and unmodded).

Latest playthrough, unmodded, got me saves broken at around day 360 and my save files are now over 80Mb, something must be wrong with the game bloating the files and then corrupting them or something...

 

[uçanbiblo]

Hello, please make sure that the game has necessary permissions over your security software, otherwise the game can not create save files on your PC. Please let me know if the problem persists after completing this step.

 

[Sheena-Tiger]

The issue hardly is the security software as it happens despite having been able to save.

Imagine, you play all normal, the autosaves work, you can save manually... and then... for example after a battle the autosave kicks in and you receive the message that the game is unable to create a save. No changes made, no updates for the security software and it happens even after allowing the game executables or deactivating the software.

 

[greggho]

Hello, please make sure that the game has necessary permissions over your security software, otherwise the game can not create save files on your PC. Please let me know if the problem persists after completing this step.

I've experienced this issue several times without any 3rd party Security SW installed.
This happened with modded and unmodded games.

I have Bannerlord under the "exclusions" list for Windows Defender since day one see below
Appreciate if the devs have any insights if anything else could be done on the Windows side to alleviate this.


Also of note - my Bannerlord installation is NOT under the C: drive - would that be an issue/clue worth pursuing??


Been unable to replicate this issue since 1.3 became the latest stable (I've started a fresh playthrough).
But as you can see in my post above, there's something that makes savefiles size become "bloated" as the game goes on.
The issue consistently comes up once files pass the ~80Mb threshold, but it also happened before that.

There was one occasion however where brand new campaigns with no mods had this issue and I wasn't able to save at all.
Later I found out that it was probably Steam's fault breaking game files between updates (a "verify game files" had me redownload a few gigs of data).


Would it help you this older branch savefile that present this issue? (1.2 beta IIRC?)

save_auto.sav

drive.google.com

(albeit this one was full to the brim with mods, I can't even tell you which mods I had on)

 

[John Shepard]

Did every step mentioned in the forums:
Disabled the widows defender overall.Cannot save.
Turned it on, and manually added exceptions to the folder in the documents folder, the entire bannerlord folder. Cannot save.
Manually added exceptions to the ransomware defender, for every .exe of bannerlord. Cannot save.

What... is going on.

 

[Mama Luke]

Having the same issue.
I'm not using any anti-virus software. I'm running a bunch of mods but none of them are save breaking, meaning I can disable all the mods and load into my save just fine. Which I did but still couldn't save.
Never had this issue with 1.2 version, running the same mods. Started a new campaign with 1.3 and now this happens.
I have a previous save file with this campaign but I can't save with it either.
If I start a new campaign I can save the game, but I want to continue my current one.
Save file is about 70mb.