[2022] I can't continue the current game

You are saying that the save shown in the REsume button is not showing in the game's Load menu, is that right?

Even if you tick the "Invalid saves" box?

Local saves are in Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3/save games/ cloud saves are shown here:

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store.steampowered.com Is the missing save file physically present in either place?

Also, check out Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3/last_save.ck3 - copy that to the save games folder, is that the missing game?  

Jayvee94 said: I wanna continue this thread because I have a similar problem. I opened my save on debug mode in order to add name_list_levantine to my Hybrid Culture (I forgot to pick aesthetics)

Now the ironman game doesn't seem to save.

Yours is a completely different situation - that is working as designed. You are not supposed to be able to modify an Ironman game and keep being able to earn achievements.  

Jayvee94 said: Well, that's a bummer. But for the record, I was locked from doing achievements from the beginning because I appear to have mods I definitely didn't install.

Hard to see how that can be! We obviously do not force mods on unsuspecting users ... what mods were they?  

Merzin said: I reopened the game today and to my surprise the resume in the launcher didn't send me directly into the game. The game was on offer in the game, but when I opened it, it took me back in time. I missed three recharged kingdoms, I don't know exactly how many years it was. But something is wrong anyway. If the game forgets the progress of several game years.

I quit the game normally, there was no crash or anything like that. And even though I came back in the past after the fall, it took me back a maximum of several months, not years. Any ideas why this could have happened?

Well that's bad. Something awful is happening here but I have no idea what it is! I guess I'd have to suggest you only use the Load menu, not the Resume button, from now on.

I assume you are on launcher 2022.3 okay?  

Jayvee94 said: The checksum says my game is modded. But when I looked for it, I couldn't find them.

Other things can alter the checksum: edited game files, a corrupt installation, or using the debug launch option.  

Ironman saves are stored in the same places as others, as per post #2 above. Their main difference is the word Ironman in the title (by default).  

I think at this point we need to do a clean reinstall of game and Steam.


- move any valued save games elsewhere
- "uninstall" in Steam-CK3
- exit the Steam app entirely

- manually delete both the Steam/SteamApps/common/CK3 AND Documents/Paradox Interactive/CK3 folders
- delete everything in the Steam folder EXCEPT steam.exe and the SteamApps folder
- run steam.exe to rebuild all that

- re-install game in Steam, run a Steam Verify when done.
- add CK3.exe to the exceptions list of your antivirus app; ESPECIALLY if you have Windows Defender, add it to the Ransomware "Apps Allowed Through" list.
- start the game with no mods active and test with a new campaign - NOT with any existing one


Do you still see these problems?