#infinite loading screen

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inland viper
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I guess this is a known issue, but I was playing on my work pc earlier today, got home, and now I can't load into the game. It just gets stuck on the loading screen. I've restarted my pc, uninstalled the game, deleted the cache, and reinstalled. Is there a known workaround for this?

alpine bone
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Hey! Thanks for the report, it seems to be a problem with Steam cloud corrupting saves.
It can be fixed by disabling steam cloud and removing you "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\X1\R5\Saved\SaveProfiles" folder, but it will make you lose progress.

To try to save progress, we have only two solutions that aren't guaranteed, but helped in some cases.

Solution 1

  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.

Soltion 2

  1. Disable steam cloud saves
  2. Go to %Localappdata%\Local\R5\Saved\SaveProfiles(profile-id-numbers)\RocksDB\0.10.0\Accounts(account-id-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.

People report this solutions working for them, but we can't be sure they'll help you.

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If none of this helps there is still a chance to save the progress - by disabling cloud saves (so they don't rewrite the save on your work PC) and manually copying your save to your home PC.

cinder falcon
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I have done all these steps and its still not working, I disabled Cloud Saves and replaced my save file with the backup and its still infinitley loading.
I can start fresh, but my 14 hour save file is gone

next river
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Same here yesterday 18/4/2026 i was plaing just fine and i had to go to work so i ended the game... today i come home happy to play and then when i start the game infinite loading screen and i can use my saves anymore so the saves got corrupted for whatever reason? I can start fresh but then what? Waiting to randomly got another progress corrupted like damn why did it even happen? It got corrupted the moment i wanted to play so it was impossible for me to even make backup.... im flustrated to the core

cerulean topaz
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I was crashing on entry and yourfirst solution worked for me.

inland viper
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I tried all the steps and couldn't savethe file.. I just decided to start anew.