Unable to Save Games

from GalCiv3 Forums

I upgraded my computer to Windows 10 on 30 July 2015. While Galactic Civilizations 3 seems to run fine, I noted that my gave saves were not working (Manual or Auto). There is no direct indication (e.g. error message) that the saves do not occur. When starting the game later (e.g. the next day) the saved games listed are the ones last saved prior to the Windows 10 upgrade (i.e. 29 July).

I uninstalled and reinstalled GalCiv 3 twice, but the problem remained. I have even started a new game (which works just fine), but cannot save it even from the beginning.

 

Please help!

 

Michael Guillory

6,127 views 3 replies
Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I have same problem.  Please Help!

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Maybe the account you are using is lacking the rights to write into the saved games folder? You could try to create a file from another programm (for example a text editor) in the same location to check this.

The saved games should be somewhere in MyDocuments/MyGames/...

The Political Machine 2024
Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I uninstalled everything (Galactic Civilizations 3 and Steam. I deleted the GalCiv3 folder under C:/Documents/My Games. I then reinstalled Steam and then GalCiv3. I set the properties for GalCiv3.exe to Run as Administrator. It is working now. I am not sure which of these steps were required, but as noted above, it would seem that there was some issue with rights allowing the program to access the save games folder.