almost 2 years ago - AndrewT - Direct link
Does this also affect CK2 ? It uses the same Steam cloud processes to save there.  
almost 2 years ago - AndrewT - Direct link
Hard to see what could be wrong on that laptop then, or in the Steam installation on it.

You could try a clean Steam reinstall:

- delete everything in the Steam folder EXCEPT steam.exe and the SteamApps folder
- run steam.exe to rebuild all that