#Character loading problems

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violet wagon
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I have experimented with this for an hour or so now… I have played the same character for a couple of days. Now, I cannot load with said character into any world. I have created a new character and world just to test out different combinations of loading.

So far:
Fresh character + new world, works fine.

Old character + any world, game abruptly crashes while loading.

At this point, I’ve deleted old worlds thinking they might have been the issue. Idk if it’s pathing problems or what.

I have reinstalled the game. I have verified, disabled/enabled cloud saves. I have verified game files through steam. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

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To add more:

This character has been used across online and solo worlds. I can no longer connect to any type of world with the character.

floral nebula
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I'm experiencing the same problem :/

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I can't load in anywhere! Game just crashes or bounces me back to the main menu

upbeat tartan
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Thanks for the report. There is currently an issue, when steam cloud might corrupt saves. We're lookin for a fix right now.

Turning off cloud saves, deleting your save and creating new character as of now consistently helps, but it loses your progress.

Some people report that they managed to restore their saves doing this:

  1. Close the game, turn off steam cloud saves in game setting on the games page in your steam library.
  2. Go to
    C:\Users\YOUR USERNAME\AppData\Local\R5\Saved Make a backup of this folder just in case, then delete it.
  3. Launch the game - it should ask you to create the new character. Do it.
  4. Close the game and enable steam cloud saves back.
  5. When Steam finds a conflict in save files, choose the Steam Cloud version.

Unfortunately there is no guarantee it helps (especially when cloud save gets updated several times after the issue happens), but it helped in some cases.

violet wagon
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Okay, thanks! I’ll test it out and report back. It’s not the end of the world if I had to create a new character but I don’t want to run into the same problem.

upbeat tartan
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Hey! We just found another potential solution for "saving your save", still not guaranteed, but it worth a try

  1. Disable steam cloud saves
  2. %Localappdata%\Local\R5\Saved\SaveProfiles(some numbers)\RocksDB\0.10.0\Accounts(some numbers)\CURRENT
  3. Open with any text editor (notepad), it will contain text like MANIFEST-000005
  4. In same folder look for file called MANIFEST-XXXXXX
  5. If file name is not the same as from CURRENT step 3 - rename it to match step 3.
violet wagon
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Well, mine said MANIFEST-000085. I did change it to end in 05 but now I am just stuck at the loading screen before ever hitting the main menu.

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I did all the things you've suggested and ended up getting the same result or not loading to the main menu at all. I think this ones a wash team. RIP my pirate queen.

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Update: SO these have to match for the game to actually work. I did change them to match your 05 and loaded into the main menu. The files updated by themselves to now end in 93 after loading and I cannot load in with the old character still.

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