#Game stuck on loading loop and now I cannot play anymore

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wide shuttle
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Solo game, no mods.
I found one of the "find the 4 braziers to unlock the treasure" above ground in the foothills and, after accessing the treasure chest, when I try to claim the mask inside it, my game suddenly switched to a loading screen out of nowhere.
I waited for awhile (loading times usually don't last more than a minute on my config), I noticed the game would just load in the void, and so I alt-f4 out of it and tried to restart it.
Now I cannot join my game again because, everytime I do so, the game loading reverts back to main menu screen. Trying to start a new world/character just puts me back in the infinite loading screen.

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Update: tried to restart my PC, and now the infinite loading screen triggers even before the main menu.

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Checking file integrety or reinstalling the game does not fix anything

slow ridge
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This is the cloud save bug they've been trying to fix hopefully fix will be here within next couple days 🙂 I have the same problem currently for past 2 days and just waiting on the fix

wide shuttle
oblique smelt
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I had the same problem, this guide has the solution https://steamcommunity.com/app/3041230/discussions/0/837249163025614478/

Hey everyone! Today I got the issue where the initial game loading screen doesn't seem to ever end. After some troubleshooting I was able to get mine working so I wanted to share. Windrose Infinite Loading Screen Bug and Fix I stumbled upon this bug while experimenting with dedicated server management yesterday. To test the server, server settin...

severe spade
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You have to figure out which Folder is the culprit. I had 3 Folders in the "Players" Folder. I deleted the two oldest ones and kept my current folder. Started the game and it worked. Make sure you have a backup, before you delete.

gleaming moss
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@leaden kindle did you try the above

oblique smelt
oblique smelt
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also remember to turn off steam cloud

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otherwise it will automatically restore the file that's causing the bug

gleaming moss
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Stormkindle in general said he is having problems with it so I was trying to direct him here to help him out. As you know genereal gets so busy that the comments dissapear and his/hers ask for help is not being seen

leaden kindle
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What I ended up doing was clearing out the save data in my appdata folder @gleaming moss

twin ridge
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Get this

And you will keep your save

wide shuttle
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I found a way to make it work again:
I disabled cloud saves
I went to C:\Users[user]\AppData\Local\R5\Saved\SaveProfiles[steamid]_Backups, picked the last working savefile before the bug occured and, in C:\Users[user]\AppData\Local\R5\Saved\SaveProfiles[steamid] replaced RocksDB by the afformentionned file and deleted RocksDB_v2_Backups
I launched the game, saw that it worked, and then reenabled cloud saves and using local save as the new one.
The only flaw is that I lost everything that happened after the backup save, which is around 2 hours.

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Also, I think the reason why the glitch triggered in the first place was because I was DLing something in the background while playing and my C: drive reached saturation during the game, which probably made the game unable to update its current savefile.